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Difference between ability/capability and calling: women may be skilled teachers but are not called to the pastoral role.

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Addressing the emotional objection that restricting women from pastoral roles implies lesser capability.

Mike distinguishes capability from calling. There are women who teach better than men, but the pastoral role is about what God calls us to do to honor him, not about what someone can do. Just as men cannot bear children (a unique female capability), women are not called to the pastoral office. Neither limitation implies lesser value.

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