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The Debate on Women in Church Leadership
OVERVIEW
Our church, which goes by the name Grace Community Church, is a charismatic evangelical church, and it is now experiencing a major controversy concerning the allowance of women in leadership roles. In the recent past, there were dreams of women feeling strong, leading them to become pastors or elders. Yet, most of the conventional interjections on these roles limit them to males only, which has brought conflict to the church. Fundamentalists are very much in support of such a rule, believing that the scriptures clearly state which positions women should and should not occupy as per the societal order established by God. This has led the church council to
assemble and find a solution to this issue and, simultaneously, reconcile the scripture's adherence
to the authority and acknowledgement of women’s talents and their callings to church leadership.
One argument was made about women in church leadership
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Equality in Christ: One Body, One Spirit
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Galatians 3:28: ‘For in the Messiah Jesus, neither the Jew nor the non-Jew has any advantage, nor the free person any advantage over the slave, nor the man over the woman.”
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Romans 12:5: Inasmuch as the body is one and has many members, and not all the members are the same, both those that have and those that have not, so also are you many
but one body in Christ and individually members of one another. “
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Colossians 3:11: For he himself is our peace, making both Jews and Gentiles one, nullifying the law with its commandments, abolishing the divisions of wall and enclosure,
