Women in Church Leadership

At our last transitional transparency meeting we were asked to focus on women in church leadership.

Our transitional pastor tried to present both sides of this issue. First he presented Bible references that indicated that it would be wrong to have a woman in a leadership position in the church. Then he presented the other side by siting how that throughout the Bible there are instances of women in leadership roles.

After this was presented, there was a time for open mike. We were encouraged to share. More women than men shared. One comment was outright support for a woman pastor. One questioner asked if the Bible tells us how we should interpret the Bible itself?

After the open mike time, we were asked to place our position on the issue within a 1 to 10 continuum without considering church unity. The low numbers indicating that our understanding and interpretation of the Bible was weighted in support of women in leadership. The high numbers indicated a more strict interpretation of the Bible. Then we were asked to again place ourselves within the continuum by adding church unity into the mix to see if that may have changed our place.

The final question was if you felt that after this meeting we could move on or did we need additional Bible study and discussion about this issue.

We will be getting a report from our transitional pastor later. It will sure be interesting to see where this leads us.