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"Church says yes to women in ministry" - nac.today
For the first time in its 160-year history, the New Apostolic Church has, from a doctrinal perspective, provided a response to the question of whether women can be ordained to ministry—and the answer was a resounding yes. Following are some of the reasons and background information for what amounts to a “significant shift in our tradition”.
The decision was made in the afternoon of 2 June 2022: “Women can be entrusted with ministerial authority and a ministerial mandate on the basis of gender equivalence and equality before God.” Such was the resolution of the District Apostle Meeting in Buenos Aires. And a lot has happened since then.
Traditionally speaking, the New Apostolic Church has only ever ordained men. However, the Church’s literature had never provided any proper doctrinal justification for this. The matter needed to be put to the test—and on the basis of the Bible, no less. After all, neither gender politics nor state constitutions can provide answers to theological questions.
The first question to ask of the Bible was: What does God want? And here the account of the creation provides a clear answer. Women and men were both equally created in the image of God. They have the same responsibility before God. “On the basis of this finding, both genders can be entrusted with ministry and service in the Church and in the local congregation,” states the Chief Apostle in the video.
The second question was: What does Jesus say? Unfortunately nothing concrete. While He does treat women better than most men of His time, He nevertheless only calls men to be Apostles. Otherwise, it would likely not have been possible for the gospel to be preached in the synagogues. However, “neither the words nor the deeds of Jesus provide a clear reason as to why we should act contrary to the clear will of God as expressed in the creation with regard to the equality of men and women”, says the Chief Apostle in his address.
The third question was: What do the Apostles teach? This is somewhat contradictory. At times women are encouraged to speak prophetically in divine service, and at other times they are told to be silent in the congregation. The conclusion here states that “individual negative statements found in some New Testament letters concerning the active participation of women in divine service and the congregation do not constitute sufficient grounds for excluding women from ministry”.