A response To Beth Myers and Women Pastors

[Neighbor]

This is a full sermon response (Longer than 30 minutes) by Pastor John MacArthur that I have watched it in it's entirety, and find if worthy of consideration as an informative response for those that question the validity or lack there of for women being pastors.

It is worthy not so much for John's conclusions as for his references to the Bible's  Instructions that each might want to read and prayerfully consider. At a minimum consider  jumping to the last fifteen minutes for a derailed exposition of 1 Corinthians 11  

 

[DeighAnn]

First question:  WHO IS BETTER SERVED?   GOD or Satan


34Let 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? 

35And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church?  

36  What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

You know what that doesn't fit with?  The two verses above it being put forth as STATEMENTS and not QUESTIONS as to what THEY MIGHT have been trying to teach in their churches.  


READ the entire chapter and see if saying women should be silent fits with the precept on precept of the chapter or not.


  
How would no woman 'speaking' while there is an assembly ACTUALLY work out, besides NOT PREACHING?

ekklésia 

Do people assemble for a bible study?  GET YOUR WOMEN OUT OF THERE.

Do people assemble for Sunday School?  GET YOUR WOMEN OUT OF THERE

Do people assemble in the lobby?  GET YOUR WOMEN OUT OF THERE.

BETTER YET, JUST KEEP THE WOMEN AT HOME.  


1577. ekklésia
ekklésia: an assembly, a (religious) congregation
Original Word: ἐκκλησία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: ekklésia
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-klay-see'-ah)
Definition: an assembly, a (religious) congregation
Usage: an assembly, congregation, church; the Church, the whole body of Christian believers.




AND BE AWARE of what can happen to a WORD when men get involved...

2980. laleó ►
Strong's Concordance
laleó: to talk
Original Word: λαλέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: laleó
Phonetic Spelling: (lal-eh'-o)
Definition: to talk
Usage: (I talk, chatter in classical Greek, but in NT a more dignified word) I speak, say.

made (1), proclaiming (1), said (6), say (5), saying (7), says (2), speak (95), speak forth (1), speaking (54), speaks (25), spoke (44), spoken (38), stating (1), talked (1), talking (5), tell (1), telling (1), things spoken (2), told (7), uttered (1), whispered* (1).

Yet, GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE and we see - now added ( if I had to bet would soon to become the only definition)

preach, say, speak
A prolonged form of an otherwise obsolete verb; to talk, i.e. Utter words -- preach, say, speak (after), talk, tell, utter. 

Where did 'chatter' go?

Praise Ye the Lord for the details
1(To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.) Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.