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“Able to teach” is given as a qualification for elders, but not for deacons (1 Timothy 3:1–13; Titus 1:6–9).

The structure of 1 Timothy –14 makes the reason why women cannot be pastors perfectly clear.

However, the authority of women in the Old Testament is not relevant to the issue of pastors in the church.

The New Testament Epistles present a new paradigm for God’s people—the church, the body of Christ—and that paradigm involves an authority structure unique to the church, not for the nation of Israel or any other Old Testament entity.

This is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. The Word of God proclaims, “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.

I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent” (1 Timothy –12).

In the church, God assigns different roles to men and women.

But, as with Priscilla, there is nothing in Scripture to indicate that Phoebe was a pastor or a teacher of men in the church.

There are many objections to this view of women in pastoral ministry.

A common one is that Paul restricts women from teaching because in the first century, women were typically uneducated.

God, through the apostle Paul, restricts women from serving in roles of teaching and/or having spiritual authority over men.

This precludes women from serving as pastors over men, which definitely includes preaching to them, teaching them publicly, and exercising spiritual authority over them.

Yet another objection to this interpretation of women in pastoral ministry is in relation to women who held positions of leadership in the Bible, specifically Miriam, Deborah, and Huldah in the Old Testament.