{"id":900,"date":"2019-05-20T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christiancompositions.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2019-05-20T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:31:00","slug":"its-all-about-authority-female-preachers-false-teachers-the-blessing-of-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christiancompositions.com\/blog\/its-all-about-authority-female-preachers-false-teachers-the-blessing-of-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s All About Authority – Female Preachers, False Teachers, & the Blessing of Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"


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God holds women in high regard, particularly women of virtue, women who fear Him, women with a meek and quiet spirit.<\/p>\n

Throughout the Word of God, we read many accounts of women of courage, compassion, loyalty, and a love for God and family. God gives a great deal of instruction to women on the qualities and behaviors He finds pleasing and displeasing. He gives clear direction about the roles and responsibilities He desires them to seek and fulfill. He instructs mothers to teach and train their children. He instructs wives on how to behave toward their husbands. He instructs women, young and old, married and single. He also gives clear guidelines concerning the role of women in the church.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt women have a valuable place in the service of God. Multiple examples are seen in the Old and New Testaments of women who served, women who prayed, and women who yielded themselves to the will of God.<\/p>\n

God concisely instructs that older women are to be \u201cteachers of good things\u201d. He then lists what these \u201cgood things\u201d are, and who is to be taught. (Tit. 2:2-5) He cautions young women, and young widows (I Tim. 5:1-17). He clearly forbids women to teach, or to \u201cusurp authority\u201d (which means to dominate) over the man (I Cor. 14:34; I Tim. 2:9-14). This \u201corder\u201d in the church is consistent with the order God gives in the home as well.<\/p>\n

In our current feminist culture, the idea of a woman being \u201cin subjection\u201d, or being limited, or disqualified in any way from any position based on her gender, is considered demeaning, sexist, cruel, hateful, abusive, and incomprehensible. It is imagined that if God is limiting women based on their gender, He is somehow saying that we are \u201cless than\u201d in some way. This mindset presumes that God\u2019s design for women implies that they are not intelligent, not capable, not…..whatever. That idea is wrong. What it does mean (and this seems to go against current notions as well) is that women are not men.<\/p>\n

We are different. We are unique. We are special. We have strengths and weaknesses. These do not make us better or worse than men, just different.<\/p>\n

The Bible clearly, unequivocally states that women are not to be preachers, pastors, or teachers of men in the church. We do not have to understand all of God\u2019s reasons, but we are accountable to obey what He has revealed and instructed. It is not a question of a woman\u2019s abilities, but of God\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s all about authority.<\/b><\/p>\n

Many well-known \u201cinspirational\u201d writers and women\u2019s Bible teachers consider themselves equipped and entitled to be preachers, and we are seeing them become more prominent and more widely accepted.<\/p>\n

Some of the most popular of these women include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n