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Jesus and the Ministry of Women

By: Roberta Hestenes† | October 31, 1990

There are many models of ministry. Women are as diverse as men in the patterns of ministry they follow. But let's look at the response of this one woman to Jesus to learn more about the place of women in ministry.

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Ordination in the New Testament (With Pertinent Biblical Materials)

By: Berkeley Mickelsen | July 30, 1990

Some lay persons have been surprised when they look in their concordances under "ordain" or "ordination" to find nothing helpful in their search for a biblical basis for the ordination of ministers. A biblical basis for the ordination of ministers involves the interpreter with a lot of inferences and assumptions. 

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The Husband of One Wife?

By: Guest Author | April 30, 1990

There is considerable debate as to how we should understand the command that a bishop, elder, or deacon should be the husband of one wife. (I Timothy 2:2,12. Titus 1:6) Sometimes these verses are used to argue that only men may be deacons, elders, or bishops because only men have wives. Actually, women enrolled in the order [...]

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Book Review: Equal to Serve: Women and Men in the Church and Home

By: Philip C. Blake | January 31, 1990

I commend this refreshing and scholarly volume to all who are not afraid to open their minds and wills to the scriptures and to the Spirit of God. 

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The Role of Women in Christian Education

By: James Plueddemann | July 31, 1989

To build the Body of Christ, we must use all our God-given resources. Yet the church is fragmenting itself over the issue of how to use the resources. I argue that the testimony of the whole body of Scripture leaves room for cultural interpretation on the role of women in the church, and thus [...]

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Biblical Equality and Christian Ministry

By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | July 31, 1989

Certainly if someone stopped you or me and said, "define a Christian world view," we would not begin with particulars but would start with the broader basics. So let's ask some questions about those basics, and see if our answers will shed light on this particular matter of gender roles.

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Why We Need Women Evangelists around the World

By: Kari Torjesen Malcolm | April 30, 1989

The call for women missionaries is not often heard today. Often women are left with the feeling “we are only needed because the men fail to go.” Our American culture looks on pioneer missionary work as man’s work because the Church is infiltrated with a worldly and pagan view of women as inferior to [...]

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Women in Ministry: The View from Eden

By: Robert L. Hubbard | January 31, 1989

In Eden we glimpse the larger purposes of God for humankind. These glimpses offer the framework within which the debate about the specific roles for men and women in the Christian ministry must take place.

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Women's Place in the Church as Taught in Holy Scripture

By: CBE International | July 31, 1988

Reproduced from The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, vol. 27, no. 6, June 1896.  

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The Role of Women in the Church, in Society and in the Home

By: W. Ward Gasque | April 30, 1988

The two divergent approaches to the question of the role of women which are common among contemporary Evangelical Christians we might call the Traditional View (the majority opinion) and the Egalitarian View (the minority opinion).

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