The Calling of Believing Women

I want to address the doctrine called complementarinism which, put simply, is the Biblical doctrine which teaches that men should have the offices of elder and pastor, and the women should be in submission to their own husbands as well as the church leadership. Many of the blogs which claim an orthodox theology including rejecting women elders and pastors, both support and print articles from unordained women as they rebuke and correct ordained pastors and elders regardless of their doctrinal compromises. It is unseemly and a gigantic Biblical compromise as well as an open hypocrisy. To forcefully proclaim a Biblical orthodoxy, and to forcefully expose and reject the many females who claim to be pastors and elders, but to then allow your own women within your own camp to step forward and rebuke ordained men cannot be anything but Biblical compromise and personal hypocrisy.

I cannot imagine such discerners and watchman who are bellicose in their correction of false doctrine including giving demeaning nicknames to woman pastors, but then allow women to usurp the authority of ordained men simply because they agree with you doctrinally. It is the “same enemy” principle that ignores the clear teaching in the New Testament simply based upon your good friend’s doctrinal stance. Is the Word of God a smorgasbord that can be parsed when it suits your purpose? And when I have confronted such compromise they reply that these women are not rebuking their own pastors and elders but strangers who they have not spoken to. And they are not doing it within the walls of a building designed for worship. What a Biblical hypocrisy!

Ti.2:3 - 5 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.


But when it suits your purpose the clear teachings of the Scriptures become less then clear, and you are allowed to dilute them in the image of emergent compromise. How the evil One has deceived even the most “orthodox” among us because their words support our views! You cannot claim to be “orthodox” and allow and support women who correct and even castigate elders around the globe. These women are wrong, but the blame must fall more significantly upon their husbands, their pastors, and the blogs that are dedicated to exposing false doctrine while trafficking in false doctrine themselves. But if you correct such women, you run the risk of losing support for your own “ministries”.

And when someone like me speaks like this I run the risk of being a “woman hater” and causing division within the orthodox community. Do you see what happens here? The orthodox community has its ducks already in a row and refuses to look deeply into the mirror of God’s Word and receive correction. And since their doctrinal stands are perfect, they reject any and all correction and stand firmly upon Gods Word, or more accurately, their interpretation of God’s Word.

I Cor. 14: 34 - Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak;

Ok, what is cultural and what is absolute? I suggest that this verse may definitely have a cultural context, but those who culturalize such verses stand firmly upon these verses:

I Tim.2:11-12 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

But in the original Greek it says “unless your women become bloggers“! There again, the very same bloggers that rebuke those who ordain women and compromise the Scriptures in so doing, support an open compromise to those same Scriptures. Oh I know, these women bloggers are exempt from Scriptural parameters because God’s Word has no authority in the internet! I personally believe women can teach Sunday School to other women and children, but that is light years from supporting women who openly and publicly castigate and correct ordained men from all over the world. Sunday School is not even a New Testament office, so I may be compromising there as it pertains to women. And let me say that some of the most Christlike followers of Jesus I know are women, so I do not “hate” women.

And many of these women, card carrying five pointers who hold the Word of God is “high esteem”, recoil at any inference that they operate outside the Scriptural teachings concerning gender roles and callings. And many husbands of these women speak nary a word but would still claim to be the spiritual leader in their homes. Very curious.

But the culture has infiltrated the church. So let me give you a homework assignment. For the next two weeks, peruse the internet and see how many blogs who uncover and rebuke false teachings support and allow women to openly take authority over ordained men. You may be surprised as well as depressed. How can a doctrinal sleuth use unscriptural methods? It’s like a pacifist searching for war mongers and using guns to find them. When we cultivate such hatred or disdain for others we silently cultivate an overblown assessment for ourselves, and we are willing to compromise in order to achieve what we deem to be a divine purpose.

“It is never right to do wrong to achieve a right”.

How many discernment bloggers often refer to dead theologians in support of a biblical theology, but would be roundly criticized by those same theologians, if blogging existed back then, for the way in which these male bloggers encourage women to step into ecclesiastical male roles? It’s called a doctrinal buffet, eat what you want and leave the rest. I guess the devil created blogging in order to find doctrinal loopholes which would compromise the church and provide shelter for all sorts of ecclesiastical mischief. Who holds bloggers accountable, including me? No one.

And the local pastor of blogging men and women stands idly by and says nothing, especially if the blogger is a faithful, giving member of the church where he pastors. The entire blogging spectacle has become a complete mess where all of us can write whatever we desire with no correction, even if we say things that are patently untrue or correct ordained men from “Who Knows Where, USA” about their personal conduct based solely upon second hand reports. And in a stunning, absolutely stunning, revelation of compromise, women are allowed to teach doctrine, castigate pastors, and in some cases spew the most virulent rhetoric concerning ordained men from all corners of the world.

And many times these discerning women not only manage their own blogs, but are contributors to other blogs whose male administrators claim a sure and solid orthodoxy. Can we speak clearly the oracles of God through people who God has lovingly given other assignments and has forbidden them to stand in the place they now stand? Many women have wonderful blogs that minister devotional material and even link to men who have discernment blogs. That is pleasing to our Lord. But to support women who practice public disobedience to the Scriptures is wrong and misrepresents the divine order. If I was God I would allow certain godly women to be pastors and teachers and elders, but I am not God and he gave us others directions.

I openly ask these women to repent, even if what they say is true. We cannot label ourselves obedient to the Scriptures in most areas, while we operate openly in rebellion to another area. But even more strongly I ask the ordained men who facilitate these women to repent, even if it means they will be persecuted for such. Little by little the church has compromised in ways that would have caused a tumult only fifty years ago. Is it not time for us to seek God’s face and circumcise those things that displease God and are very clear in the Scriptures?