NO FEMALE PASTORS!

Tentative Outline for Series

 

A.  What IS a Pastor-teacher and his Authority?

      1.  There are different kinds of teachers.  Not all teachers are equal in ability, authority, but all have authority WITHIN their teaching 'sphere'.

      2.  Pastors Represent Christ's Own Teaching Authority.

           a.  Why does Authority matter? Head-Body analogy:  head controls body, and needs body.

           b.  One Pastor for a group, then, is one LOCAL head for one LOCAL body.

                1) The body elects who will be its head.

                2) The body can therefore elect a bad head, or a good one.

                3)  No popes or spiritual hierarchies beyond the local church are ever mandated or authorized by the Word of God, whether in OT or New.  If people elect to have a hierarchy of leaders (i.e., ecumenism), that's their election, since man fundamentally has a right to elect ANYONE as his authority in ANY capacity.

                 4) So YOU are responsible for the teacher you elect.  If the pastor teaches falsely and you remain under him, YOU are responsible.  So YOU should ask God WHO should be your teacher.  And then obey God's Answer, once you know.  That way if the pastor teaches falsely, you know God will be correcting him, since you are obeying GOD's Answer.  (Analogous to obeying your parents or school authorities, even if they are wrong.)

           c.  So pastor-teacher is a spiritual gift, and the Holy Spirit only gives it to a FEW men.  Huge liability inures to the pastor.  Worst job on earth.

         

      3.  So women cannot be pastors, as they have other roles.

            a.  Women can assist the pastor.

            b.  Women can assist in the local church.

            c.  Women can assist in spreading communication of the Word.

            d.  Women can authoritatively state doctrines like Gospel, need for 1John1:9, need to be under a male pastor, spiritual life as learning and living on Bible,  plus prayer.  For these are the core 'pillars' of Bible Doctrine.  Anyone can state these pillars, so women can as well.  Notice that the authoritativeness is not as a teacher, but as a WITNESS.  One ATTESTS and EXPLAINS that such doctrines are valid.  Attestation and Explanation are the duty of every Christian, to the extent he/she is CAPABLE of properly representing the Word to someone else.

            e.  Women can research in Bible, report on it, account on it, be librarians (i.e., tell you where in Bible a given doctrine is located so you can find and study it).  Obviously, the competence of these functions depends on their spiritual growth.

 

B.  Bible backup, both verses and keywords in Hebrew, Greek.  Explain semantic range.  Show context.  Show how those who misuse the Bible to claim women can be pastors, ignore verses, keywords, play games with the gender of nouns, skew semantic range and ignore context.

 

diakonos, apostolos, presbuteros, poimen kai didaskalos (hapaxzlogomena and Granville-Sharp rule), didaskalos, distinguished from kaladidaskalos, marturia.  Didaskw, apostellw, marturew distinguished, along with synonymal verbs.

 

diakonos verses (searched on root), to show semantic range: Est. 1:10; 2:2; 6:3, 5; Prov. 10:4; Matt. 20:26; 22:13; 23:11; Mk. 9:35; 10:43; Jn. 2:5, 9; 12:26; Rom. 13:4; 15:8; 16:1; 1 Co. 3:5; 2 Co. 3:6; 6:4; 11:15, 23; Gal. 2:17; Eph. 3:7; 6:21; Phil. 1:1; Col. 1:7, 23, 25; 4:7; 1 Tim. 3:8, 12; 4:6

 

apostolos verses (searched on root), to show semantic range:  Matt. 10:2; Mk. 3:14; 6:30; Lk. 6:13; 9:10; 11:49; 17:5; 22:14; 24:10; Jn. 13:16; Acts 1:2, 26; 2:37, 42f; 4:33, 35ff; 5:2, 12, 18, 29, 40; 6:6; 8:1, 14, 18; 9:27; 11:1; 14:4, 14; 15:2, 4, 6, 22f; 16:4; Rom. 1:1; 11:13; 16:7; 1 Co. 1:1; 4:9; 9:1f, 5; 12:28f; 15:7, 9; 2 Co. 1:1; 8:23; 11:5, 13; 12:11f; Gal. 1:1, 17, 19; Eph. 1:1; 2:20; 3:5; 4:11; Phil. 2:25; Col. 1:1; 1 Thess. 2:7; 1 Tim. 1:1; 2:7; 2 Tim. 1:1, 11; Tit. 1:1; Heb. 3:1; 1 Pet. 1:1; 2 Pet. 1:1; 3:2; Jude 1:17; Rev. 2:2; 18:20; 21:14

 

presbuteros verses (searched on root), to show semantic range:  Gen. 18:11f; 19:4, 31, 33f, 37; 24:1f; 27:1, 15, 42; 29:26; 35:29; 43:27; 44:12, 20; 50:7; Exod. 10:9; 17:5; 18:12; 19:7; 24:1, 14; 34:30; Lev. 4:15; 19:32; Num. 11:16, 24f, 30; 16:25; Deut. 31:9, 28; 32:7; Jos. 7:6, 23; 8:10; 9:2, 11; 13:1; 23:1; 24:1, 29; Jdg. 2:7; 8:14, 16; 11:5, 7ff; 21:16; Ruth 4:2, 4, 9, 11; 1 Sam. 4:3; 15:30; 16:4; 30:26; 2 Sam. 3:17; 5:3; 12:17; 17:4, 15; 19:12, 33; 1 Ki. 1:1; 8:1; 12:6, 8, 13, 24; 20:8, 11; 21:7f; 2 Ki. 6:32; 10:1, 5; 19:2; 23:1; 1 Chr. 11:3; 15:25; 21:16; 2 Chr. 5:2, 4; 10:6, 8, 13; 15:13; 22:1; 32:3; 34:29; 36:17; Ezr. 3:12; 5:9; 6:7f, 14; 10:8, 14; Ps. 104:22; 106:32; 118:100; Prov. 20:29; Eccl. 4:13; Job 1:13, 18; 12:20; 32:4, 6; 42:17; Joel 1:2, 14; 2:16; 3:1; Zech. 8:4; Isa. 3:2, 14; 24:23; 37:2; 47:6; Jer. 6:11; 19:1; 33:17; 36:1; 39:8; Lam. 1:19; 2:10; 5:12; Ezek. 7:26; 8:1, 11f; 9:6; 14:1; 16:46, 61; 20:1, 3; 23:4; 27:9; Matt. 15:2; 16:21; 21:23; 26:3, 47, 57; 27:1, 3, 12, 20, 41; 28:12; Mk. 7:3, 5; 8:31; 11:27; 14:43, 53; 15:1; Lk. 7:3; 9:22; 15:25; 20:1; 22:52; Jn. 8:9; Acts 2:17; 4:5, 8, 23; 6:12; 11:30; 14:23; 15:2, 4, 6, 22f; 16:4; 20:17; 21:18; 23:14; 24:1; 25:15; 1 Tim. 5:1f, 17, 19; Tit. 1:5; Heb. 11:2; Jas. 5:14; 1 Pet. 5:1, 5; 2 Jn. 1:1; 3 Jn. 1:1; Rev. 4:4, 10; 5:5f, 8, 11, 14; 7:11, 13; 11:16; 14:3; 19:4

 

poimen kai didaskalos:  Eph 4:11.

 

didaskalos verses (searched on root), to show semantic range:  Est. 6:1; Matt. 8:19; 9:11; 10:24f; 12:38; 17:24; 19:16; 22:16, 24, 36; 23:8; 26:18; Mk. 4:38; 5:35; 9:17, 38; 10:17, 20, 35; 12:14, 19, 32; 13:1; 14:14; Lk. 2:46; 3:12; 6:40; 7:40; 8:49; 9:38; 10:25; 11:45; 12:13; 18:18; 19:39; 20:21, 28, 39; 21:7; 22:11; Jn. 1:38; 3:2, 10; 8:4; 11:28; 13:13f; 20:16; Acts 13:1; Rom. 2:20; 1 Co. 12:28f; Eph. 4:11; 1 Tim. 2:7; 2 Tim. 1:11; 4:3; Heb. 5:12; Jas. 3:1

 

C.  What are the other spiritual gifts, for Church?

      1.  What does 'spiritual gift' mean?

      2.  Apostleship is not a valid spiritual gift anymore.  (Go over apostolos and apostellw and its NT usage.)  So no one, male or female, is an apostle.  Women were never apostles.

      3.  Healing, tongues, and other temporary spiritual gifts were only stand-ins pending the completion of Canon.

      4.  So other office-related spiritual gifts are evangelist, local church administrative leadership (under the pastor), local church administration.  The last category can include women.

       5.  Every believer has one or more spiritual gifts which operate both inside and outside the church to which he belongs.  The operation of these gifts may be unknown to him, and may not become operational until he has enough spiritual maturation.  Sometimes the gift operates even if the believer is carnal, i.e., one can be currently carnal but remember and state the Gospel correctly (even the unbeliever can and has done that).