WANTED! A VISIT TO PH ILA DELPH IA DISCIPLESHIP IN T H E A DVEN T IST CH URCH DEANS, & DEACONS ANCIENT WRITINGS K EEP SILEN T FEMA LE LEA DERSH IP

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1 IN T H E A DVEN T IST CH URCH DEANS, & DEACONS ANCIENT WRITINGS K EEP SILEN T FEMA LE LEA DERSH IP PA STORS WANTED! A VISIT TO PH ILA DELPH IA DISCIPLESHIP

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8 Programs for the orientation and education of church members Incentivizing the hiring of greater numbers of women clergy and administrators Development of church administrator support structures for women clergy n

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13 Ellen White

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20 The fourth option is the most difà uniàed in the process? bringing and training Àlter the passage? seems to contradict the Àrst text? n

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22 Because leadership positions in the Bible are typically occupied by males, should we Pioneers Int erpret at ion Leaders in Bible Times were Mostly Men

23 He W ill Rule Over You Priesthood of Men Priesthood of All Believers

24 N ew Test ament Leadership Roles Husband of one wife

25 Generic Masculine Language Limitations on Women s Leadership

26 Women Should Remain Silent Be Silent submission to the teacher, something expected of a Àrst-century disciple (male or female).

27 tecting the rights of others to hear and learn. The phrase she must be silent (verse 12) I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man the rest of the scripture where we Ànd females teaching males. In Acts 18:25 Priscilla in where women played a domineering role in religion, ináuenced the Ephesian church and Linda Belleville writes The women at Ephesus (perhaps encouraged by false teach W hat about Ellen W hit e? Ànd it ironic that any Adventist would have trouble with the concept of female pastors since Ànd that explanation anywhere in the history of the Adventist church. n

28 eventh-day Adventist Church Co-founder Ellen White took an active role in encouraging women in leadership positions, though she never directly weighed in on whether they should or shouldn t be ordained ministers.

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31 er more than 40 years attending Philadelphia s Chestnut Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church, Jesse Spencer had seen pastors come and go and thought he d heard it all. But he never imagined his next pastor would be a woman.

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