Posts from November 2025

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article which was published by The Council of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. That article was written because several churches within the Fellowship—ours included—brought forward a motion to re-affirm our 1997 position statement, “On the Gender Issue in Pastoral Leadership In Fellowship Churches.”[1] The statement is not a binding policy but was followed up by a binding bylaw in 2004, which says, “In member churches, the pastoral office is reserved for qualified men recognized…