Natali MastersDr. WatsonHermeneutics February 12, 2014 Women in Church Ministry I sometimes find the topic of women in church ministry frustrating because as a woman I want so much to justify and clarify our role in ministry while obeying what God wants. the word has commanded us. Fortunately for me, I grew up in a non-fundamentalist church in which women in church positions were not looked down upon but instead greatly appreciated and respected. So, growing up, I never thought differently until I started studying the Bible more deeply and discovered that more often than not, the Bible discourages women in ministry. However, there is more to Scripture on the subject than meets the eye and people often forget to consider the difference between what is eternally significant and what is merely culturally relative. I'm going to take a closer look at what was happening in the scriptures at the time and what was actually trying to express through them. One of the problems that is constantly put forward is that women cannot be ministers, because...