Dale Partridge - November 03, 2022


Can Women Be Pastors？


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Length

1 minute

Words per minute

222.89973

Word count

329

Sentence count

13

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Hate speech

9

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Summary

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A woman cannot teach, have authority over a man, or exercise authority in the local church. She is to remain silent in the church, which means she cannot be a pastor. The Bible says so in 1 Timothy 3:3, and Titus 1:14.

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00:00:00.000 First, the question is not, can a woman proclaim the gospel or have a ministry?
00:00:05.700 She can do both of these things.
00:00:06.780 The question is, can a woman be a pastor, according to 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1? 1.00
00:00:11.240 The answer is very clear in the Bible, no, she cannot. 0.99
00:00:14.020 In Paul's first epistle to Timothy, he writes in chapter 3,
00:00:16.580 I am writing these things to you so that you may know how you ought to behave in the household of God,
00:00:21.540 which is the church of the living God, a pillar and ground of the truth.
00:00:24.920 So what are these things he's writing to them so that they would know how to behave
00:00:29.520 in the local church? Well, it's the instructions found in the paragraphs right before this verse,
00:00:34.660 and one of those instructions is this, quote, let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. 1.00
00:00:40.200 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man. Rather, she is to remain 0.98
00:00:44.660 quiet, end quote. In 1 Corinthians 14, there's an almost identical passage. In 1426, it says,
00:00:50.540 if anyone thinks that he is a prophet or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing
00:00:55.140 to you are a command of the Lord, end quote. Well, again, what are the things that he wrote
00:00:59.620 that are a command of the Lord? They're the commands in the previous paragraph, which happens
00:01:03.740 to say, quote, as in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the 0.98
00:01:08.440 churches for they are not permitted to speak, but should remain in submission. If there's anything 1.00
00:01:12.700 they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home for it is shameful for a woman to speak 1.00
00:01:17.560 in church, end quote. Folks, fight it all you want. The conclusion is plain. If a woman cannot teach, 1.00
00:01:23.520 have authority over a man and should remain silent at the church, she clearly cannot be the pastor. 0.99