Sentences with phrase «allow women in ministry»

Not exact matches

While the fundamentalist experience on this question has been quite slow in allowing the ministry of women, lagging far behind the churches of the mainstream, the Wesleyan churches have often been the pioneers of this practice, especially in the nineteenth century when the conservative Wesleyan churches were far in advance of the more established denominations.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

From Ella: My Pastoral Theology professor brought to the table a statistic that only 2 % of senior pastors in Pentecostal churches are women, even though the tradition has long allowed women to serve in high positions of ministry.

(The Roman Catholic Church does not allow women to serve in ordained ministry.)