Covenant Reformed News – January 2008 • Volume XI, Issue 21
This article defends the Reformed position that women are forbidden from holding church offices (pastor, elder, deacon) based on biblical passages from 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy, critiquing the Presbyterian Church in Ireland's decision to ordain women ministers. The author argues that Christ explicitly prohibits women in positions of ecclesiastical authority and characterizes denominational accommodation of women's ordination as a departure from Scripture.
Jesus Christ Forbids Women in Church Office! On 25 December, 2007, “Rev.” Christina Bradley did not preach in First Portadown Church. First Portadown’s minister, Rev. Stafford Carson, (rightly) refused his “colleague” in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) ministry permission to preach in his congregation. PCI moderator, Dr. John Finlay, stepped in to seek to “resolve” the issue of women ministers in his denomination: “We have to accommodate both points of view” (Belfast Telegraph, 29...