Adventist Ordination Crisis

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

What does the New Testament actually say about women in elder-pastor leadership roles?

Isn’t it a positive evidence that women are called to be ordained when they experience success in soul-winning?

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

Was the Biblical exclusion of women from elder-pastor roles a consequence of a prevailing patriarchal, “male-chauvinist” culture and mentality?

Does the Bible clearly teach that a church elder should be a man and not a woman?

What kind of speaking does Paul prohibit to women in 1 Corinthians 14:34 when he writes, “The women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says”?

Does 1 Timothy 2:12 really forbid all kinds of teaching and speaking by women in the church? If the Adventist Church took Paul's statement literally, “I permit no woman to teach . . . she is to keep silent,” following it would cripple us, since we use the talents of women so heavily in Sabbath Schoo

Is it true that Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation (“For Adam was formed first, then Eve,” 1 Timothy 2:13) is faulty because it is based on the wrong Creation account (Genesis 2 instead of Genesis 1) and because it attaches significance to the fact that man was created before woma

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

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?

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

Are “equality in being” and “subordination in function” contradictory terms?

Were women excluded from the Israelite priesthood because of their frequent ritual impurity caused by menstrual flow?