Women in the Church

1. BRI and Women’s Ordination The issue of women’s ordination to the pastoral ministry has been with the Seventh-day Adventist Church for many decades. With the new developments this quinquennium, BRI members were asked to participate in various committees. Some wrote papers; a few addressed the ...

Gerhard Pfandl with Daniel Bediako, Steven Bohr, Laurel and Gerard Damsteegt, Jerry Moon, Paul Ratsara, Ed Reynolds, Ingo Sorke, and Clinton Wahlen The issue of the ordination of women, which is part of a modern trend in society, is currently presenting a challenge to the unity of the Seventh-day...

Some people do good works because they believe that by doing them they may have a better chance to be saved. Others do good deeds because they are grateful for God’s gracious gift of redemption and want to follow the example of their Master. Should Christians do good works? Yes. The Bible repeate...

Creation of Woman—Her Status Two passages in the opening chapters of Genesis deal with the origin of woman. The first forms a part of the sublime summarization of Creation; the second is found in the supplementary account which supplies the details of her creation (Gen 1:26-28; 2: 18-24). In the ...

The Christian church is that body of people who have been reconciled to God and their fellow men in Jesus Christ. They are all members of a body of which Christ is the head (Eph 1:22, 23). The Christian life, however, the new life in Christ within the church, is not its own end. Christians care ...

The purpose here is to show the status of woman as presented in the Pentateuch as far as her position in society and law were concerned. It is vital that the original status given to woman by God at creation be reviewed and that the study give an overview of the changed status resulting from the ...

The purpose of this study is to survey briefly the climate of opinion regarding the place of women among the Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the first century. This is the cultural setting in which the Christian church originated and began its development. Since the church rose in the midst of Judais...

The opening chapters of Genesis (1-3) are of crucial importance for both the origins of our world and also the origin, beginnings, and determining relationships of man and woman. As such they set the stage for a biblical concept of man’s interrelationships, without which any understanding of the ...

Church members are a part of society; and a church is, in some aspects, a social institution. Even though church members may live by a different standard of behavior from society as a whole, and obey a higher than earthly authority, they must make their decisions within, and relate to, the societ...

Preface Although the Seventh-day Adventist Church draws its faith and doctrine from the Bible only ( sola scriptura ), it sees the work of Ellen G. White as a particular fulfillment of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church and a special bestowal of the “spirit of prophecy” in the end of time...