Making a case for women in leadership

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Dino, you haven't considered some things since you are a guy. me and secondtimesacharm work in the healthcare industry. guys don't make good nurses. orderly or caregivers not even watching the kids goes over well sometimes. they end up in the emergency room. I cant tell you how many incidents I've heard that involved a man when there arnt many of them in the healthcare industry to begin with other then doctors pharmacist
Wow… let the misandry begin. It’s the same kind of sweeping generalization that slanders all female pastors because of the misbehaviour of a few while utterly ignoring the all-too-common misbehaviour of male pastors.

When you have a sound argument, come back to play.
 
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Dino, you haven't considered some things since you are a guy. me and secondtimesacharm work in the healthcare industry. guys don't make good nurses. orderly or caregivers not even watching the kids goes over well sometimes. they end up in the emergency room. I cant tell you how many incidents I've heard that involved a guy when there ant many of them in the healthcare industry to begin with other then doctors pharmacist.
I'll make your point for you as far as health "care" goes. Last male nurse that kissed up to my half bro tried to kill Mom by suffocation.
He was the "charge nurse."
He'll get his name and picture published when I am ready.
 
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Though we are equal in God's eyes we were made different. I like allot of woman tend to be to rank high on agreeableness and it's not a characteristics you want in a pastor. that doesn't mean preaching the gospel is cut off from us. I've seen my mother preach the gospel all my life from her salon chair and I'm sure many other woman are also.

We're talking about the official authority bestowed on men in official positions in church, where they can exert that authority, and their role of head of household in their families. I don't know why people keep mixing this up. God wants both men and women to preach the gospel as well as build each other up in day to day life.

I think this issue is important because satan has been trying to upend the order that God set from the very beginning. He himself is doing this because he himself wants to usurp God the Father's authority which is the highest over all. This is why he attacks the order God set for His people.

Notice how he approached Eve instead of Adam to initiate the sin. And he succeeded. So this has been a sin he promotes ever since he wanted the authority of God the Father for himself. I don't want to be a part of any of that and urge other Christians too to not fall prey to it either.


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I'll make your point for you as far as health "care" goes. Last male nurse that kissed up to my half bro tried to kill Mom by suffocation.
He was the "charge nurse."
He'll get his name and picture published when I am ready.
Yawn... you made the same mistake Daisy did.
 
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Yawn... you made the same mistake Daisy did.
I agreed with two 😎👍👍 Fonzi thumbs up what she said about male nurses. There's probably an exception or two to the rule, but I'm way too prejudiced against the twinkle toes. I never trusted them around family.
 

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If so, then who is the man he is talking about in 1 Timothy 2?
I lean toward the understanding that 1Tim2 is speaking specifically to wives in concern to their husbands, consdering the final verse in that chapter which footnote reveals
"d Literally, She, however, will be saved"
and, the verse conclusion is... "if they (my emphasis) continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control"
To me, the "they" isn't so cut and dryly referring back to women but seems rather more relevantly referring back to the husband and wife pair.
 
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Are you really claiming on a public forum that all male nurses are gay? Are you really that much of a fool?
It's a stereotype for a reason Dino.
Not all drama students are drama queens either, but there were so many hitting on me that I turned down a full ride scholarship from WVU in theater.

In a career where a family members/ patients life is entrusted to a possible reprobate, I don't think it's worth the risk. Yup, I'll say that publicly and when it's the appropriate time name names.
The ladies know a little bit from actually working in the field. They speak the truth.
 

Mem

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I lean toward the understanding that 1Tim2 is speaking specifically to wives in concern to their husbands, consdering the final verse in that chapter which footnote reveals
"d Literally, She, however, will be saved"
and, the verse conclusion is... "if they (my emphasis) continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control"
To me, the "they" isn't so cut and dryly referring back to women but seems rather more relevantly referring back to the husband and wife pair.
The verse begins with 3rd person singular 'she' and concludes with 3rd person plural 'they'...
"She will...if they..."
think about it.
 

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It's a stereotype for a reason Dino.
Not all drama students are drama queens either, but there were so many hitting on me that I turned down a full ride scholarship from WVU in theater.

In a career where a family members/ patients life is entrusted to a possible reprobate, I don't think it's worth the risk. Yup, I'll say that publicly and when it's the appropriate time name names.
The ladies know a little bit from actually working in the field.
There's no issue in outing a specific individual who has committed a crime (though better to wait until he is convicted), but slandering every person in a category because of the sin of a few is prejudicial, unjust, and possibly illegal.
 
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There's no issue in outing a specific individual who has committed a crime (though better to wait until he is convicted), but slandering every person in a category because of the sin of a few is prejudicial, unjust, and possibly illegal.
Slander is individual. Yes, I'm prejudicial about a few things and people. But I agree that a conviction before exposure is wise. I have a list of those criminals and I believe that God will bring them to justice.
 

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Are you really claiming on a public forum that all male nurses are gay? Are you really that much of a fool?
I didn't say they were gay I said the guys are not good caregivers and sometimes woman aren't either. Think of your childhood which of your parent were easier to annoy first? Who rose their voice first? It's not mother it's usually the dad with the belt. The mother is the comforter. Even though people are trying to change the order of in modern society. It's dysfunctional. It must be the devil that makes us humans want to change what God has made straight there we are trying to make cooked and what he made crooked we try to straighten. It's impossible if its not his will.
 
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Everyone knows Pauls words on women pastors or rather a women speaking or teaching in the church and at face value this would seem pretty clear however the context of the verse has to do with the issues that was going on in the church at the time but what really got me thinking was this right here

Galatians 3:28 states that in Christ Jesus, there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor male nor female, for all are one. This verse emphasizes the equality and unity of believers in Christ, transcending traditional social and cultural divisions. It highlights that these categories, while still present in human society,
are not determinants of value or significance within the Christian community and so this verse got me thinking if this is to be true then why do we take Pauls words at face value he would be contradicting the himself
unless of course he was speaking in regards to what was going on in the church at the time then it would make sense not to mention what about the women who he even baosted about who ministered to people such as Junia?

This one verse just doesn't make sense to me if indeed women are subhuman in the church and Jesus himself never forbid women of such a thing he never even addressed it
Would Jesus forbid the gospel being preached by a women?
Older translations said "do not let the pythonesses teach," which were like Greek Oracles who divined and were converting to keep thier power over people. I wish that translation was more well known, and it is why Paul targets this church with his instruction, while praising Lydia, Nympha with her Church in her home, and Priscilia and Aquila, in those days the first of a couple mentioned was the teacher. Jesus clearly had no problem with The Samaritan Woman teaching in John Chapter 4.
 

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Older translations said "do not let the pythonesses teach," which were like Greek Oracles who divined and were converting to keep thier power over people. I wish that translation was more well known, and it is why Paul targets this church with his instruction, while praising Lydia, Nympha with her Church in her home, and Priscilia and Aquila, in those days the first of a couple mentioned was the teacher. Jesus clearly had no problem with The Samaritan Woman teaching in John Chapter 4.
1what translation is it? I would very much like to read it and it would also settle this debate if this translation is in fact true