Women As Pastors?

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Women As Pastors Mark 16:15-18 ESV / 24 helpful votes And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”Jeremiah 3:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes “‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.Romans 16:1-2 ESV / 22 helpful votes I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.Romans 2:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes For God shows no partiality.Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 21 helpful votes So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”Micah 6:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.1 Peter 5:1-3 ESV / 19 helpful votes So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.1 Corinthians 12:7-12 ESV / 19 helpful votes To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. …1 Corinthians 7:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.Romans 16:3-4 ESV / 19 helpful votes Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.Joel 2:28-29 ESV / 18 helpful votes “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.Galatians 3:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Acts 2:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes Even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.Mark 9:38-40 ESV / 17 helpful votes John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. For the one who is not against us is for us.Mark 9:35 ESV / 17 helpful votes And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”Judges 4:4-9 ESV / 17 helpful votes Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment. She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun. And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand’?” Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.” …1 Corinthians 11:11-12 ESV / 16 helpful votes Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not ind

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