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What if a husband and wife team read scripture? At my former PCA church in Chicago, we had this happen. The scripture reading was part of the order of worship we'd have the OT and NT readings, then the pastor would read the scripture for that day's sermon, pray then begin his sermon.
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Another thing the PCA will have to address somewhere down the road. So far, they haven't even addressed whether women can teach men's Bible studies.
That one philosophy that's going around in the PCA that "a women can do anything an unordained man can do" allows women to read the Scriptures during Sunday service, teach coed Bible studies etc..and participate to one degree another in the Lord's Supper, although there is a position paper restricting the
administration of the Sacraments to the Elders.
There was the case IIRC in Tennessee where a large PCA church let a woman preach during Sunday night service, and he used this philosophy. He explained this by using this philosophy. When asked if the woman who led the service was preaching, he said, no, only Elders can peach, and since only men can be Elders and she isn't a man then she obviously wasn't preaching. At the church court case that resulted, someone on the panel asked the Pastor if his reasoning was "Clintonesque" and he said no, that just because it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it doesn't mean it's a duck. The way the case was resolved, at least as far as I can see it, was that the Pastor said it was wrong, and he wouldn't allow it again. But the main (to my mind) issue of whether a woman can do anything an unordained man can do wasn't resolved, and eventually will have to be.