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Scripture Commentary article 2022-11-25

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Women Leaders in the New Testament (PART A)

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 4 on women leaders in the New Testament (Part A)

1 Cor. 12:1–30 1 Corinthians 1:11 1 Corinthians 1:16 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2022-11-25

What Winger Presently Gets Wrong: Women Leaders in the New Testament (PART B)

Response to Mike Winger's Women in Ministry Part 4 on women leaders in the New Testament (Part B)

1 Chronicles 29:6 1 Corinthians 12:21 1 Corinthians 15:32 Women in Leadership Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2009-10-27

Woman Need Spritual Covering

## Does a woman need a human spiritual “covering”

1 Corinthians 14:20 1 Peter 4:10 1 Timothy 2:14 Genesis & Creation Authority & Submission Adam & Eve
Scripture Commentary article 2009-01-15

They Are Sinning Through Questioning

The issue of women in ministry allows us to the opportunity to ask questions about the hard passages of scripture and to work through these passages to discover God’s intended meaning through the inspired context. But in many quarters, questioning is a “sin” that will get a reprimand from a strong a

1 Peter 5:1-3 Jeremiah 23:1 Titus 1:7 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2009-01-09

Recovering From Spiritual Abuse

Recently I was contacted by Dr. Barb Orlowski who has compiled her research on spiritual abuse into a manuscript that will form the basis of a yet unpublished book called “Ministering Restoration: Recovering Spiritual Harmony”

Leviticus 16 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership Spiritual Abuse
Scripture Commentary article 2008-06-07

Is Ordination A Requirement

Recently one of my blog posts has garnered some interesting comments regarding the issue of ordination. At the same time I received a request from a lady who believes that she has been called by God into ordained ministry

1 Peter 4:11 Ephesians 4:11 Ephesians 4:7 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-10

@BaptistClips Curious. If Paul wasn’t also an elder/overseer, then I don’t know who was. A Positive Case for Paul as an Elder Though Paul never calls himself an elder, the NT presents him as one in function and spirit. Shepherding Paul exhibits th...

@BaptistClips Curious. If Paul wasn’t also an elder/overseer, then I don’t know who was. A Positive Case for Paul as an Elder Though Paul never calls himself an elder, the NT presents him as one in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-05

Imagine Jesus saying "Do not stop him...for the one who is not against us is for us" but then being against women preaching the gospel or shepherding people to be followers of Jesus. Jesus' own actions don't correspond to the idea of restricting wom...

Imagine Jesus saying "Do not stop him...for the one who is not against us is for us" but then being against women preaching the gospel or shepherding people to be followers of Jesus. Jesus' own actio

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-10

@GenZCrusaders @smashbaals A female preaching the truth or shepherding into the

@GenZCrusaders @smashbaals A female preaching the truth or shepherding into the truth is never stated to be a sin anywhere. Paul left Timothy to deal with *FALSE DOCTRINE* not to remove anyone teachin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 A woman teaching truth and shepherding is not in the same catego

@JonByers186054 A woman teaching truth and shepherding is not in the same category as someone who is marries someone of the same s*x.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-05

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua Eph 4:11 says "And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers." Pastoring (or shepherding) is a function, not an office. And only Jesus is explicitly called a poimen in ...

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua Eph 4:11 says "And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers." Pastoring (or shepherding) is a function, not an office

Eph 4:11 1Pe 5:4 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-04

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua I’m still confused… where is pastor (poimen) defined as male only such that any female serving as a shepherd is in unrepentant sin? Imagine, a female following Mt 28:16-20, teaching others to obey all that Jesus commande...

@BytePhantom42 @haymes_joshua I’m still confused… where is pastor (poimen) defined as male only such that any female serving as a shepherd is in unrepentant sin? Imagine, a female following Mt 28:16-2

Mt 28:16-20 question
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-10

@TheHustleCritic @MikeWingerii A lot has to do with pastors dominating and not t

@TheHustleCritic @MikeWingerii A lot has to do with pastors dominating and not truly shepherding and helping others develop in their gifting.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-30

@autocorrect2_0 I agree with you. And pastoring or shepherding doesn’t have to be an official appointment. You shepherd your children, and you may be a spiritual influence over your small group and care for their souls. You also may do so online. Jus...

@autocorrect2_0 I agree with you. And pastoring or shepherding doesn’t have to be an official appointment. You shepherd your children, and you may be a spiritual influence over your small group and ca

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-03

Paul was clearly *both* an apostle and an overseer. His letters are pastoral (esp 1Co, 2Co and Gal), he ministered in Ephesus for ~3 yrs (Ac 20:31). He was not there merely to plant a church and appoint elders, but spent significant time shepherding,...

Paul was clearly *both* an apostle and an overseer. His letters are pastoral (esp 1Co, 2Co and Gal), he ministered in Ephesus for ~3 yrs (Ac 20:31). He was not there merely to plant a church and appoi

Ac 20:31 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-19

@BenZeisloft Im not sure what exactly you are referring to by feminism, but a go

@BenZeisloft Im not sure what exactly you are referring to by feminism, but a godly woman teaching, preaching or shepherding is not incompatible with Christianity. That would be needlessly divisive.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-09

@MCJazzer @revjeffvox @Knocksious @AdajosFit @RevChrisDavis Pastor is used to refer to the shepherding function of an elder. In scripture we don’t see an office of “pastor” though Jesus is called the chief shepherd. Clearly implied is that elders are...

@MCJazzer @revjeffvox @Knocksious @AdajosFit @RevChrisDavis Pastor is used to refer to the shepherding function of an elder. In scripture we don’t see an office of “pastor” though Jesus is called the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-09

@revjeffvox @DDunbear @RevChrisDavis S3xual assault and egalitarianism are not t

@revjeffvox @DDunbear @RevChrisDavis S3xual assault and egalitarianism are not the same thing! Show me where scripture says anywhere that a godly woman shepherding is a sin!

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-11

@StevenMKestner @MikeWingerii No because any s3xual relationship outside of the confines of a marital relationship between a man and a woman is sin. It is clearly listed as such. Show me where a godly woman teaching truth to men is a sin, or where ...

@StevenMKestner @MikeWingerii No because any s3xual relationship outside of the confines of a marital relationship between a man and a woman is sin. It is clearly listed as such. Show me where a god

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-10

@benkrake @MikeWingerii If it is secondary then that means it is a debatable issue and is not a matter of sin. So we need to treat it that way and truly learn to tolerate those we disagree with on debatable matters. Where is a godly women teaching t...

@benkrake @MikeWingerii If it is secondary then that means it is a debatable issue and is not a matter of sin. So we need to treat it that way and truly learn to tolerate those we disagree with on deb

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-10

@pastherandie @lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii And Hawk, please show me one place in

@pastherandie @lunarCelerity @MikeWingerii And Hawk, please show me one place in scripture where a godly woman teaching truth to men or shepherding people (including males) is ever called a sin.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-18

@SwordMasterPub 1. Yes, shepherding is a function of elders. 2. The male form is

@SwordMasterPub 1. Yes, shepherding is a function of elders. 2. The male form is often used when both male and female are in view. This is not a forbidding of women or the unmarried. 3. Your logic fai

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@Andwhit1249 @brianaxelm I'm not sinning. Where does the Bible say that a godly female pastor teaching the truth is a sin? What precisely does it damage? Your ego? Is God harmed by having His physically weaker vessels shepherding His church? Isn't i...

@Andwhit1249 @brianaxelm I'm not sinning. Where does the Bible say that a godly female pastor teaching the truth is a sin? What precisely does it damage? Your ego? Is God harmed by having His physica

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-09

@TentSpike @jsrrayburn @deadtosin610 A woman pastor is abuse? Surely Paul read his bible and understood that women have been appointed by God to places of highest authority like Deborah to know that women are not forbidden by God for such service as ...

@TentSpike @jsrrayburn @deadtosin610 A woman pastor is abuse? Surely Paul read his bible and understood that women have been appointed by God to places of highest authority like Deborah to know that w

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-12

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad A godly woman shepherding, preaching and teaching is not a sin. It’s not listed in any list of sins anywhere. When this gets labeled a sin, it causes division which is completely unnecessary b/c it’s not ...

@JeremyMBauman @MikeWingerii @DoctrinesofRad A godly woman shepherding, preaching and teaching is not a sin. It’s not listed in any list of sins anywhere. When this gets labeled a sin, it causes divi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-01-22

@SpeechWrx @TheMuppetPastor @theknightshift What stood out to you from Proverbs

@SpeechWrx @TheMuppetPastor @theknightshift What stood out to you from Proverbs and Song of Songs related to leadership (shepherding and oversight)?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-12-06

@dougponder They avoid the term shepherding? But shepherding isn’t in Titus 2:6-8 regarding men either. But what each is doing is shepherding. No doubt women have a role to shepherd younger women just as men should shepherd younger men. The latte...

@dougponder They avoid the term shepherding? But shepherding isn’t in Titus 2:6-8 regarding men either. But what each is doing is shepherding. No doubt women have a role to shepherd younger women j

Titus 2:6-8 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-11-06

@eltrucker87 @wbigs2001 @smashbaals He’s just a local pastor. He doesn’t have a

@eltrucker87 @wbigs2001 @smashbaals He’s just a local pastor. He doesn’t have any worldwide fame. Shepherding a church is enough work on its own. If you feel the need to warn people, why not warn t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-10-02

@IdorenyinEtuk5 @Drprincessjanet @Solomon_Buchi Yes, and this is expressly what

@IdorenyinEtuk5 @Drprincessjanet @Solomon_Buchi Yes, and this is expressly what Timothy was to do with the false teachers at Ephesus which was also a problem with the church Titus was shepherding. Je

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2023-08-11

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Is it a sin for a woman to pastor (shepherd) other women? Where is this sin listed in any list of sins? Regardless of the title, if she is able to shepherd her children and she can shepherd other women, why is...

@outcatching @GlennDavies @danitreweek Is it a sin for a woman to pastor (shepherd) other women? Where is this sin listed in any list of sins? Regardless of the title, if she is able to shepherd her

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Theology verse entry

1 Timothy 2:11-15

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

1 Timothy 2:11-15 specific woman,deception,authenteo,grammar,perfect tense,future tense,anaphoric,egalitarian,ephesus,teknogonia,singular plural,historical perfect,verbal aspect,paul as pattern
Theology verse entry

Psalm 109:8

Sections: cross_references, exegesis, greek_analysis

Psalm 109:8 apostolate,office,episkope,Matthias,Judas,replacement
Theology verse entry

Ephesians 4:11-13

Sections: debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Ephesians 4:11-13 spiritual gifts,Christ distributes,pastors,teachers,apostles,prophets,evangelists,equipping,unity,egalitarian
Theology verse entry

1 Timothy 3:1-4

Sections: greek_analysis

1 Timothy 3:1-4 elder,overseer,pastor,qualifications,women,tis,husband-of-one-wife,polygamy
Theology verse entry

Romans 12:4-8

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Romans 12:4-8 spiritual gifts,charismata,body of Christ,teaching,leading,proistemi,no gender restriction,egalitarian
Theology verse entry

Acts 1:16-26

Sections: cross_references, debate_points, exegesis, greek_analysis

Acts 1:16-26 Judas,betrayal,foreknowledge,sovereignty,prophecy fulfillment,predestination,free will,apostolate,Matthias,Paul,twelve,lot,human initiative
Theology greek term

ἐπισκοπή (episkopē)

office, oversight, supervision

greek
Theology greek term

ποιμαίνω (poimaino)

to shepherd, to tend a flock, to pastor, to rule

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Mike Winger idea 2024-03-01

Definition of pastor: a shepherding/caretaking leadership term synonymous with elder

Mike defines how he uses the word 'pastor' based on scripture.

Ephesians 4:11 1 Peter 2:25 Hebrews 13:20 Ephesians 4:11 1 Peter 2:25 Hebrews 13:20
Pulpit research note

Children's Minister vs. Pastor — The Self-Contradiction

At 13:52, he claims that a pastor is an elder and an elder is a pastor, and says this is why they do not call a children's minister a "children's pastor" — because a pastor is an elder. Words really