We have women pastors on staff. We have women in every echelon of leadership, apart from the council of elders. What Paul Really Said About Women . This radical group is calling for women's ordination and rejecting the Scripture texts that forbid women serving as pastors and elders. The Bible teaches that in the New Testament economy women as well as men exercise the prophetic, priestly and royal functions.
Women are to be used in pastoral care, teaching, preaching and worship.
Among those who signed this declaration are Myron S. Augsburger, Stuart Briscoe , Tony Campolo , Vernon Grounds, David Hubbard, Bill Hybels , Richard Mouw, and Ronald Sider. Gary Collins shows how to make the difference positive. Stuart Briscoe served as the vice-chairman for the same crusade. Joseph Stowell, James Montgomery Boice, David Jeremiah , Warren Wiersbe, Elisabeth Elliot, Anne Graham Lotz, Franklin Graham, Woodrow Kroll , Adrian Rogers, Buster Soaries, Larry Crabb , Stephen Hayner, Jay Kesler, and Bruce Wilkinson. Grace Chapel is known as one of the leading neo-evangelical churches in New England.