Women Preaching is Wrong

 Women Preaching is Wrong, and Here’s Why 

When we are young children, our minds are easily impressionable and swayed by everything we are told. When I was a young child, I actually believed that when you called someone on the telephone that you could reach through the receiver and physically “transport” yourself to the person on the other end. I saw it on a cartoon and I just thought that it was possible. 

Maybe a more common thing is when parents or other adults teach their children that Santa Claus is a real person. Many children send letters to a fictitious man in a red suit, and they truly believe that they are writing to an actual person. They believe this lie because someone else told them that Santa is real. As adults, we know this is nothing more than a fairy tale.

Like children, women’s minds are weaker and are easier to be swayed by false teachings. God created woman to be a helper, not to preach the gospel to others. That is the man’s job.

In the beginning, who did God create first? Man or woman? Man. God made a woman to help who? Man. (Genesis 2:18) Who did the serpent go and tempt in the Garden of Eden? The woman, because the woman is the weaker vessel. Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman was. (1 Tim 2:14) And when Eve gave the fruit to Adam, then started the downfall of man.

Some women preachers try to find a way around the scriptures that specifically teach and command that women are to keep silence in the church and that they are in no way to preach/teach, period, including the Word of God. This also includes Sunday School.

“Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.” 1 Corinthians 14:34

One of the most common excuses used to try to justify women preaching is when Mary Magdalene went to Jesus’ tomb. When they got to the tomb, they saw an angel, who told them that Jesus was risen fromt the dead and that He was going to Galilee. While they were on their way to tell the disciples this news, Jesus appeared to them, and what did Jesus tell them?

“Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.” Matthew 28:10

Where in this verse did Jesus say, “Go out and preach.” I sure don’t see it. Jesus told them to tell His disciples that they would see Him in Galilee. That’s just the same as if I was walking down the street, and I saw the President of the United States, and he told me to tell my family that he would be eating at the Taco Bell at 3 o’clock. Jesus only told them to deliver a message, not to preach, and this is where many women preachers try to twist the scripture to make it say what they want it to say. The Bible will not contradict itself. The Word of God is completely perfect and without flaw. The passage in Matthew 28 does not contradict what Paul wrote in 1 Timothy.

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” 1 Timothy 2:11-14  

Look around you at a large portion of the “churches” today. How many of them have women either teaching in the pulpit or are teaching a Sunday School class? They try to tell you that times have changed since the time that the Scriptures were written 2000 years ago, and that in today’s world it is now acceptable. They might claim that God told them to preach, so that is what they are going to do. Uh, no, He most certainly did not.

The world is changing, that’s for sure, and it’s changing into something increasingly more wicked everyday. But you know one thing that doesn’t change? God’s Word. The word of God means the same today as the day it was written. If someone is going to claim that certain parts of the Bible were only meant for a certain church at that time, then they could try to do that with the entire Bible. 

I have even hear some women claim that if you say that women are not supposed to teach or preach that you are sexist! Did Jesus pick any women to be His apostles and spread the Word? NO! That is because it is reserved for men.

Everyone has a role that they need to fill as a follower of Christ. Does the president of a company make a 16 year old kid trying to make a few bucks for the weekend a manager of multi-million dollar store? Of course not. That position is reserved for someone with experience. The position of teaching and preaching is reserved for men. Period. And while some women may not like it, that’s what the Bible teaches, and that is the way it is. I may think that I would want the sky to be green, but you know what? the sky is blue, and that’s the way that God made it. God made men to be preachers, teachers, and leaders, and the women to help the men, take care and guide the house and children. 

Those who try to justify women preaching say things like, “times have changed, and that doesn’t apply to churches today.” The Bible does not change. The Bible isn’t printed with disppearing ink so that you can write what you want back in. The Word of God stays the same.

Look at what has happened in just the past 80 years. Since WWII, the number of women in the workforce has has gone from around 20%, to nearly half of all jobs now being occupied by women. No longer are women staying home and taking care of the kids and home; now they send their kids off to a stranger at a school or daycare to watch over them while they do what? Go out and make money. I will save most of this for another study, but the things that they teach in public schools today are completely un-Christian, and if a woman loves her children, she should stay home and watch over them and show them by her example what a Christian woman does. 

Remember when I wrote that children are easily impressionable? What do you think will happen if a young girl sees her mother preaching in a church? She will think that this is acceptable and right according to the scriptures. Because her mom did it, it must be okay, right? Each generation that passes on will continue to get farther and farther away from the truth of God’s word if this continues, and sadly, it will continue, because many (not all, of course) women have been taught by their mothers that they can be in places of leadership. 

You know, there actually is one place in the Bible that tells what women can teach. 

“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,” Titus 2:4

Any mention of spiritual scripture there? Nope. They can teach the young women to love their husbands and their children, and to be sober. Nothing there about preaching to others.

Look what has happened in the Episcopal “church.” Just a few hundred years ago, sodomy (homosexuality) was a crime punishable by death in many countries, as well as being forbidden in the Bible. Now we are in the 21st century. The Episcopal “church” now marries homosexuals and even ordains them as priests and bishops into their “church.” This is supposed to be a Christian church, but they openly reject the scripture. Not only do they marry homosexuals, but they also ordain women into bishops. And this is just the Episcopalians. Lutheran “churches” also do many of these same things.

What happens to all of these young children who grow up in these denominations? Their minds become corrupted because of the sin that they are exposed to, until they believe that lie, and when they grow up and have children of their own, that lie is passed down again. It truly is sad that they don’t believe what is writtten in the Bible.

“If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 14:37

When men in the church see a woman speaking or preaching during a church service, they need to stand up for what is right, and openly condemn that practice. Unfortunately, in many places that claim to be a church, the men have become weak in their faith. They don’t want to get up and take a stand for what is good and right. When they see a woman preaching, they don’t want to raise any waves and correct un-biblical issues. When the Apostle Paul saw or heard of things that needed to be corrected, He let the people know, first more gently, but if the issue continued then he would be more stern if needed.

Women need to subject themselves to their husbands and his authority, or if they are unmarried to the authority that God has given to the man.

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.” Ephesians 5:22-24

It is time for the men sitting in the pews to wake up. When they see something that is wrong according to the Scripture, whether a woman speaking during the service or some other thing, they need to stand up for the faith. And the women need to learn in silence. They need to obey the role that God made for them, and not try to exalt themselves over men. Need I remind you that the New Testament was written by men? If a woman is going to try to go around or twist a scripture to try to say what they want it to, then they are exalting themselves over what Jesus and His apostles wrote and commanded. Think on these words.

In Christ,

Andrew