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Who’s Who? New Testament Female Ministry Role Models

By: Grace Ying May | July 31, 1993

Just as earlier God called Eve to inhabit and rule the Garden with Adam, now, through Christ, God gives women and men an opportunity to respond to the two highest callings imaginable as co-heirs of salvation (1 Pet 3:7) and co-laborers with Christ. Who are some of the women in the New Testament on whom the Lord [...]

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Principles of Female Ordination in the Old Testament

By: Christina Campbell | April 30, 1993

Where did judges like Deborah come from? We read in Acts 13:20-21 that the Israelites settled in Canaan and “After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. Then the people asked for a king....”

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Do Male Old Covenant Priests Exclude Female New Covenant Pastors?

By: Eileen Vennum | April 30, 1993

If God meant women to lead in religious functions, why were they forbidden the priesthood under the Old Covenant?” This question expresses one of many arguments used to limit the participation of women within the church. It is a reasonable question and deserves a thoughtful answer.

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Bitalia, the Ancient Woman Priest

By: Catherine Clark Kroeger | January 31, 1993

The woman had upraised hands, in the gesture of a priest or bishop giving the benediction. This is also a gesture that is sometimes used in proclamation of the Word. 

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Revelation, Proclamation, and Women’s Responsibility

By: Ralph A. Kee | October 31, 1992

In history as recorded in the Bible, God often gave His revelation specifically to women, and often instructed women to pass on that revelation to others, including men. In the New Testament, at all of the most significant points of Christian revelation and proclamation, women played a role as significant as, or even more significant [...]

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Ministry and Meditation: The Spiritual Journey of Marchiene Vroon Rienstra

By: Debra Rienstra | October 31, 1991

This article is from a chapter in the book For Such A Time as This: Twenty-six Women of Vision and Faith Tell Their Stories, ed. Lillian Grissen. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991.

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Book Review: No Time for Silence: Evangelical Women in Public Ministry Around the Turn of the Century

By: CBE International | July 31, 1991

Chosen as one of ETERNITY magazine's best books of the year in 1987, this book encourages women to use their gifts fully in proclaiming the Gospel. Dr. Hassey presents the significant contributions made by American women engaged in public ministry in past years, and who were enthusiastically supported by such institutions as Moody Bible Institute.

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Book Review: Beyond the Curse: Women Called to Ministry

By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | July 31, 1991

Subtitled "Women Called to Ministry," Dr. Spencer's book presents a new look at Scripture's description of women's roles. She writes, "Whole dimensions of God, ministry, education and theology are being obscured and ignored if women are not properly trained, then invited, even more so welcomed, to participate as significant and affirmed once they do lead."

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Old Testament Prophets as Types for New Testament Leaders

By: Francis H. Geis | April 30, 1991

If God could call and equip women for this office and ministry without violating their roles as wives and mothers in ancient Israel, why can He not do so in the Church today? Indeed, in light of what Joel 2:28-32 has to say about the Messianic Age, the “New Age of Prophecy”, these OT women [...]

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“Where Do I Go?”

By: Beverly Herbert | January 30, 1991

I came to see the fullness of the Christian community and church, but was I surprised. I found instead disdain for my impending leadership as a female. I found lack of acceptance for my ministry and my leadership. I heard so many masculine pronouns used and masculine leaders speak that I wondered if there [...]

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