What difference has it made now since a COG Ordained Bishop’s wife is now his equal rather than a helpmate? Can you tell the differences?
A COG ordained bishop is to be the husband of one wife. He can remarry if the first wife dies. The ordained bishop cannot remarry as long as she lives.
What does all this mean when it comes to ordaining women to be bishops? Shouldn’t it be opposed on Biblical grounds?
Charles, I think some things have changed in the CoG (Cleveland, TN). Ministers can now be, or remain, Ordained Bishops even though they have married their 2nd (maybe even a greater number), as long as they are the what I believe is called the “innocent party.” So Paul’s statement, “A bishop should be the man of one wife” is being interpreted as “one wife at a time.” Unsure how this is going to relate to women Bishops because whether anyone likes it or not, women will soon acquire the status of Bishop. The women bishop has been reappearing time after time at the GA, even though it has been voted down. However, at the last GA, it lost only by a close margin. It is being encouraged at Lee University and other educational CoG institutions. This is the way it occurred when Sanctification and Practical Teachings were repealed, that is, it all started at Lee. There will, no doubt, be a few more “older CoG ministers” that will resign from the CoG when Women Bishops are approved; however, the majority will remain and the church will carry on. I predict the sometime in the future, and perhaps in our lifetime, a woman will be General Overseer, and many will serve as “Administrative Bishops” known to us as State Overseers.
Judges stated thay after Jushua and his generation were buried there came a generation that knew not the god of israel
Why don’t they just call the bishops what they really are, and that’s a manager. You can have the store managers, the district managers, and the regional managers. That way there won’t be anymore confusion.
Well, the Catholics hold the mother of our SAVIOR to be co-equal with HIM. So anything is possible now days, in the “church”. But not in HIS body. If a “body part” ceases to function as created, we call it cancer. In the Bible, it’s called being CURSED!
As a woman I am a Ordained Minister with the Church of God, Cleveland Tn. I could never be a Bishop due to the fact I can never be a husband of 1 wife. I am a WOMAN.
As I understand it, there are ordained Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers in the Bible. All of these are co-equal elders. Just what is an “ordained minister”? Where is that in the Bible. What do they do?
Good point Bro. Sibley
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