Adventist Ordination Crisis

Does Ellen White warn against seeking a role or “sphere” different from the one we're assigned by God?

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

Didn't Ellen White have a position of authority in the church?

Because our women haven't been ordained, has our church undervalued their work and treated them unfairly?

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

Does the New Testament distinguish between the office of elder and that of pastor?

Is it true that if Paul's argument about the priority of Adam's creation is valid, then the animals should rule mankind because animals were made before Adam was?

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

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

Why does Paul appeal to Adam's being created before Eve to justify his injunction that women should not be permitted “to teach or to have authority over men” (1 Timothy 2:12)? Is it arbitrary to assign leadership on the basis of priority of creation?

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

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

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

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?