blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
We visited a church last year for a few months or so and really enjoyed many things about the church, especially the Sunday School class we attended where they went through an RC Scroul video series. We were uneasy about a few things, one of them being that they had all men elders, but a man or a woman could be a deacon.
Since I just couldn't bring myself to rejoin the church we'd left several years or so back, I'm back searching for another church to attend. Since the church we'd visited last year was one of my favorites, I thought I'd check into why they allow women to be deacons. I visited their website, found their church constitution where it talked about qualifications for becoming a deacon, then I wrote the church an email talking about this part of their church constitution and asked for additional information about their biblical reasons for allowing women to be deacons. The church secretary wrote me back and said that she had forwarded my email to the pastors.
Anyway, while I'm waiting, I'm just wondering if there is any biblical justification for allowing women to be deacons? What's the strongest argument in favor of allowing them to hold the position?
Any thoughts?
Another question: If one of the main negatives of a church was that they allowed women to be deacons, would this in an of itself be enough to keep you from joining?
Since I just couldn't bring myself to rejoin the church we'd left several years or so back, I'm back searching for another church to attend. Since the church we'd visited last year was one of my favorites, I thought I'd check into why they allow women to be deacons. I visited their website, found their church constitution where it talked about qualifications for becoming a deacon, then I wrote the church an email talking about this part of their church constitution and asked for additional information about their biblical reasons for allowing women to be deacons. The church secretary wrote me back and said that she had forwarded my email to the pastors.
Anyway, while I'm waiting, I'm just wondering if there is any biblical justification for allowing women to be deacons? What's the strongest argument in favor of allowing them to hold the position?
Any thoughts?
Another question: If one of the main negatives of a church was that they allowed women to be deacons, would this in an of itself be enough to keep you from joining?