Melissa Hatfield, Lead Pastor, First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, MO Courtney Allen Crump, Senior Pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Richmond, VA Angela Zimmerman, Pastor, Starling Avenue Baptist Church, Martinsville, Virginia Christy McMillin-Goodwin, Pastor, Front Royal, VA Kristin Adkins Whitesides, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winchester, VA Carlisle Davidhizar, Associate Pastor for Families and Community, May Memorial Baptist Church, Powhatan, VA White, Pastor, Antioch Baptist Church, Red Oak, VA Melissa Scott, Pastor, Colonial Avenue Baptist Church, Roanoke, VA *Indicates women who were targeted by a recent public list of women serving as pastors in Baptist churches In these days when Law is spoken to keep you from expressing all your gifts in God’s service, never forget that you are beloved, you are whole, and you are free.īaptist Women Who Are Pastors (717 signers) We invite you to find freedom from this pain in Jesus Christ, and to reclaim God’s design of men and women both being created in the image of the limitless God. The perpetuation of male authoritarianism has led to far too much abuse, pain, hurt, and sorrow for women. Imagine how much more God can do when we, women and men, join together in God’s work equally. There is far too much work to be done in this world for us to limit how people can participate in sharing God’s redemption and wholeness with others. They are only protecting their own power. When men say you must be limited for there to be unity in the church, they are not seeking true unity that brings all people, men and women, together in Christ. You have the right to be seen as made in God’s image, not as a secondary afterthought God designed to always be under the authority of men. You are valued by God equally to the way God values men. When anyone treats you as if you are not worthy to do God’s work, they are challenging Jesus’ own actions. Jesus did not make a mistake by calling the women present at the resurrection to preach the gospel, and he has not made a mistake in calling women to pastor, minister, and lead today. Women were even the first preachers of the gospel when the resurrected Jesus chose to appear to them and commanded them to preach the good news (Matt. Women followed Jesus (Luke 8:1-3) and were exemplars of discipleship (Matthew 26:6-13 Mark 12:41-44 Luke 7:1-3, 10:38-42, among others). Jesus did not place any limits on women’s roles. And those are just a few of the named and unnamed women whose ministry and leadership are included in scripture.
Phoebe was a deacon at the church in Cenchrae who carried Paul’s letter to the churches in Rome and preached it to them when she arrived (Rom. Lydia planted the first church in Europe (Acts 16:13-15). Huldah is a prophet who King Josiah asks for help (2 Kings 22:11-20). Deborah was a judge and military leader (Judges 4:4-15). Miriam led the Israelites as a prophet alongside her brothers Moses and Aaron (Exod. Throughout the Bible, women lead God’s people. Rather than believing the consequences of sin are God’s design, we invite you to join us in reclaiming the knowledge that God’s design included you being made in the divine image.
It was not God’s intent that men would rule over women, it was a consequence of sin (Gen. 1:28-30).Īfter the first woman and man ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, God gave consequences for sin to the serpent, the woman, and the man (Gen. God invites you to participate in God’s purposes as much as men (Gen. You are created in the image of God (Gen. Even today, men are taking actions against women who are ministering, leading, and pastoring to spread the love and grace of Jesus Christ.
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