Adventist Ordination Crisis

Why is the issue of the ordination of women as elders or pastors of such crucial importance for the Seventh - day Adventist Church at this time?

Why should the Seventh-day Adventist Church resist pressure to eliminate role distinctions between men and women?

Would voting for a regional option create legal problems for the church?

Didn't Mrs. White encourage women to participate in the work of the church?

What has been the experience of churches that have ordained women as priests or pastors?

Why does Paul forbid women to teach as leaders of the congregation?

What does Paul's instruction in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 on head coverings mean for us today?

Why not ordain women as local elders? Doing so wouldn't mean we would ordain women later as pastors, would it?

What is the significance of Paul's discussion about head coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 for the discussion of the role of women in the church?

Why does Paul say, “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men” in the church (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it because women in his day were uneducated?

Can Joel 2:28 settle the issue for us of men and women filling the same spiritual roles?

What are the implications of this for the issue of ordination of women to the headship positions in the church?

Is Gen. 1, where man and woman are presented as equals, more trustworthy than Gen. 2, where the woman is subordinate?

Wasn't Eve's subordination to Adam in Genesis 3:16 a part of the curse, which Christ came to take away?

What evidence is there for a “structure” in the relationship of the man and woman before the Fall?