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What is the greek word for women who are deacons in the Baptist C...
The basic answer to your question is that the matter is entirely left up to each individual local church to determine who can, and who cannot, attend church conferences, business meetings, Sunday School, worship or whatever. Somewhere in y... Read More »
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Where there women deacons in St Paul's time or did he get it worn...
Yes, there were women deacons but there were not women in the position of elders (bishops). Their basic function was to educate the young and also to instruct the women who were converting. They also took care of the "widows and orphans" an... Read More »
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What scriptures can I use as support for allowing women to become...
Hi Donna, There are none. The Bible does not allow women to be deacons, pastors nor bishops: Bishops: I Timothy 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 3:2 A bishop then must be blameles... Read More »
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I'm aware of that fact. Junia is an example of a deaconess. Early Roman writings also confirm that Christians appointed female deaconesses. For example, Pliny the Younger wrote this to the Emperor Trajan in about 112 CE: "Accordingly, I jud...
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Complementarians differ on the issue of women deacons. Moderates say yes (like the church I attend) and others say no because any position that "elevates" a woman above the "lay people," which undoubtedly includes MEN, would give the impres...
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Source: http://abandonimage.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-about-women-deacons...
Elders and deacons in the early church were people who already served the church in a certain capacity according to gifting and were then recognized for it. They also were not limited to these roles or labels. For example, Stephan is consid...
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Women can do many things in the Church. We are no longer restricted to making lunches for funerals or ironing the Altar linens. Not that there would be anything wrong with that: neat linens and funeral lunches are still a very necessary par...
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Source: http://forum.catholic.org/viewtopic.php?p=367179
While the work of women deacons—always rooted in the word, the liturgy and charity—differed regionally, the fact of women deacons is undeniable. The commission recognizes that St. Paul called Phoebe a deacon (not a deaconess) of the church ...
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Pope John Paul II believes that it was determined by Christ himself that only males be ordained to the priesthood and that he, John Paul, has no power to deviate from what Jesus has determined. The 1994 apostolic letter of John Paul II to a...
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The deacon leads the community for proper participation in the Mass. The role of women is to assist the priest in the baptism of adult women and in the mission of education of families: they are called "deaconesses," but there is no ordinat...
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