Adventist Ordination Crisis

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

Did Ellen White urge the church to ordain women?

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

What does the Bible teach regarding the role of women in the church?

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

But most of the people I know (many of them, anyway) are in favor of ordaining women as elders or even pastors. Shouldn't this count for something?

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

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

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

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?

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

Did Adam “rule over” Eve before the Fall?

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

Does Mrs. White say that Eve was Adam's equal before the Fall and that only after the Fall was Adam to be her ruler?

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