Women Ministry 

The New Testament reveals a wide variety of spiritual gifts and ministries exercised by women of faith. The New Testament also describes a much smaller list of ministries which, in God's order, are reserved for men.      

The Word of God contains much positive teaching about women in ministry. When properly understood and faithfully followed, God’s Word brings clarity, blessing, and liberty to this theme of Christian women's ministry. To some the topic is controversial, especially the subject of the ordination of women. But the discussion need not be controversial if the Scriptures are faithfully applied.  

Historically, the cross of Christ brought many profound changes. It brought God’s people from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. We no longer have animal sacrifices, because Christ the Lamb of God was sacrificed once for all time. The Aaronic priesthood has been made obsolete. The temple of God is no longer a physical building, but now is the bodies of believers individually and corporately. 

The New Testament reveals an extensive record of godly women ministering in a wide variety of spiritual gifts, ministries, and activities, for example — 

• Prayer ministries of many kinds 

• Prophecy, and by association, other gifts of the Spirit 

• Older women teaching younger women 

• Financial support of ministries 

• Service ministries 

• Help m inistries 

• “Working very hard in the Lord” 

• Witnessing 

• Good works 

• Helping the poor 

• Hospitality 

• Assisting her husband in sharing the Lord and His truths with people 

• Being “mothers” to many in the church 

• Being loving, godly wives 

• Raising their children in the Christian faith 

• Teaching other children, for example, in Sunday School 

• Testifying 

• Specific applications of these many opportunities actually open the door to an almost limitless variety of specific ministry activities for women, consistent with the Scriptural principles shared in this study. 

God in His sovereignty has chosen to appoint men to the ministries of church leadership and preaching-teaching to the mixed congregation. But the vast majority of ministries in this New Testament era are common to both men and women of faith — for example, gifts of the Spirit, prayer, witnessing, testifying, good works, service, music ministries, administrative roles, and many more ministries of profound importance to the New Testament church. 

When we all — men and women, teens, boys and girls — respond faithfully to our appropriate callings and ministries in the Lord, then we will experience the dynamic power of true, biblical team ministry, as “...the whole body ... grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work” (Ephesians 4:16). 

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