One standard is set for both female and male Christians. Requirements for baptism, sanctification, communion, and foot washing are alike for everyone. To serve as the mouthpiece of God proclaiming the Scriptures and their meaning in the pulpit is the highest profession granted on earth. Performing priestly functions of baptism, weddings, baby dedications, communion, funerals, and so on is a reminder to the woman minister humbly to be grateful to Jesus, our Lord, who has liberated women. In the teaching and administrative ministries God has gifted women to do the devine work and to recruit leaders to function in positions where the laity is more skilled.
Most congregations have many more women attending than men.
It is imperative to use this potential source of Christian service. Sometimes the secular world more readily acknowledges the position of the woman minister than the church itself. She is recognized to serve in community affairs, chaplaincy at hospitals, and prisons. But this potential reservoir of women serving in ministry has been only slightly tapped. Let's not rob the kingdom of dedicated ministries because of human traditions.