Thread: Are the Preaching and Sacramental Administration by Female Pastors Means of Grace?
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Old 10-29-2007, 01:10 AM
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Didn't the early church decide (based on Scripture) that the efficacy of the sacraments is not dependent on the administrator of same? I don't women as pastors or preachers is biblical, but I don't think that if a woman administered the preached or administered the sacraments, they would be inefficacious merely for that reason. Paul, after all, was glad when the gospel was preached even from dishonest motives.
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