Women pastors break the stained-glass ceiling

Roots in the anti-slavery movement have led the A.M.E. Church to take a more inclusive approach to women in ministry.

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But having more women in top positions doesn't mean they are always welcomed with open arms.

"People think that now that because there are a lot of women, 'Oh you got what you wanted,'" Reverend Kimberly Detheridge said. "'You're ministers now,' [they say]. When in reality, we didn't even begin to have the right to be ordained elders in the African Methodist Episcopal Church until the year 1960. That's not that long ago."

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[TriBev83]

Witches on the pulpit

[godmeantwhathesaid]

These woman can't be doing "God's Work" God never told a woman to become a man, priest, father, nephew, uncle, pastor. If Jesus wanted a woman to set an example of a woman being a father leader of a people, surely his one mother, the virgin mother who have been our first example.

[godmeantwhathesaid]

God never commanded "the woman" to rule the man, a husband or any other woman's husband. Blatant disrespect for God's order. God never called a mother to father no one. Error. The devil is at working deceiving many.

[2011PACKERFAN]

wow she look like a a cross between oprah and allen iverson

[free2drm]

or Create a video response 1 Timothy 2:11-14 11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.

[blaq7427]

Rebellious spirit of Satan in the church is behind this female pastor movement. If someone wants to do God's work it doesn't have to be as a pastor but these women seem bent on having power .

[JL9XT]

THE DEVIL IS WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gasly130]

She the husband of one wife? 

[adipricil]

There are several scripture which indicates that in the New Testament in the presence of men a woman cannot take the lead in the house of God . Why they don't want to read the bible ? an example ?

I Timothy 3:2. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

I Timothy 3:12. Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

I Timothy Chapter 2: 12 etc.

[ncdynasty]

It does not matter what people think. The question is what does God think? We need to start studying to show ourselves approved.