If a woman pastor married my wife and me, is this considered acceptable in God's eyes?
Since Scripture declares that women cannot be pastors or preachers, is my marriage "legal" in the eyes of God, since it was done by a woman in the Methodist Church? The same could be said of any denomination who ordains women to preach and teach. Am I living in sin?
1 Timothy 2:11 - 12
ESV - 11 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
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Asked December 25 2017
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John Matthews
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Andre Spencer
I can only say that when I got married the Lord would not allow a woman to perform the ceremony. We ask two women preachers and neither one of them couldn't do it.
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Danny Hickman
You're mistaken. I don't believe you've ever been told by God that a woman with a license issued by the state government can't perform the services that a licensed minister is legally able to administer. Marriage licenses are issued by state government not the church. Without a license you are not legally married regardless of who performs the ceremony. Marriage is of the state not the church. A licensed minister gets licensed by the state not the church. The church can and does discriminate, the state once did but thankfully, those days are over here in the USA.