Evangelical Resources on Women in Ministry

Christians For Biblical Equality

CBE International (Christians for Biblical Equality) advances the gospel by equipping Christians to use their God-given talents in leadership and service regardless of gender, ethnicity, or class.

CBE exists to promote the biblical message that God calls women and men of all cultures, races, and classes to share authority equally in service and leadership in the home, church, and world. CBE's mission is to eliminate the power imbalance between men and women resulting from theological patriarchy.

Man and Woman, One in Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Paul's Letters
by Philip B. Payne

Philip Payne has written the most exhaustively researched study of the Apostle Paul's statements about the role of women in the church. He is a conservative Evangelical scholar who firmly believes in the inerrancy of the Biblical in the original autographs (the way they appeared when the prophets and Apostles first wrote them). That is his starting point. He began his research on the topic while being a doctoral student at Oxford University with the goal of proving the New Testament places limits on the ministry of women. His research led him to the opposite conclusion.

Dr. Payne looks closely at every text addressing women in the Pauline corpus (Paul's body of writings). This is the book that should be in the library of everyone who wants to know what the Bible actually says about the role of women in the life of the church. is an academic book and not designed for pleasure reading. Instead, it is a book to read carefully and return to its content over and over again. It is an academic book and not designed for pleasure reading. Instead, it is a book to read carefully and return to over and over again.

Women in the Church: A Biblical Theology of Women in Ministry
by Stanley Grenz and Denise Muir Kjesbo

Studies of key biblical passages on women's roles in the church fill entire bookshelves, if not libraries. But in Women in the Church, Stanley Grenz and Denise Muir Kjesbo offer the first in-depth theological study of this issue--one of the most bitterly contested issues of our day. Carefully considering the biblical, historical and practical concerns surrounding women and the ordained ministry, this book will enlighten people on all sides of the issue. But Grenz and Kjesbo make no secret of their bold conclusion: 'Historical, biblical and theological considerations converge not only in allowing, but also in insisting, that women serve as full partners with men.' Thorough and irenic, Women in the Church bids to take an intense discussion to a new plane.