Can Women Be Pastors? (9Marks Church Questions)

by Greg Gilbert

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2022

Overview

Many new believers have questions about what it means to live as a Christian in the context of a local church, and pastors are looking for resources to pass along to their congregations to help them think biblically about the Christian life. Church Questions is a series by 9Marks that seeks to provide Christians with sound and accessible biblical teaching by answering common questions about church life. Each booklet offers biblical answers and practical applications with the goal of nurturing healthy church practice and commitment.

In this Church Questions booklet, Greg Gilbert answers the question Can women be pastors? Gilbert explains why God reserved the office of pastor and elder exclusively for men by examining the structures of authority God established from the very beginning. Focusing on texts in Genesis 1–3 and 1 Timothy 2, Gilbert makes a case for why God’s original design for church leadership is not arbitrary, but part of his good and beautiful plan.

Key Features

• Studies Genesis 1-3 and 1 Timothy 2 to make its case
• Explores why the office of pastor and elder are for men
• Adheres to the conviction that God's original design for church leadership is intentional and good

Contents

Top Highlights

“What’s at issue here is authoritative or conscience-binding teaching and leading—the doctrinal instruction of the church in the Scriptures and the direction-setting governance of the church.” (Pages 14–15)

Praise for Can Women Be Pastors?

I eagerly commend this series.

—R. Albert Mohler Jr., President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Product Details

• Title: Can Women Be Pastors?
• Author: Greg Gilbert
• Series: Church Questions
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 54
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Women clergy › Biblical teaching; Authority › Biblical teaching
• ISBNs: 9781433579080, 9781433579110, 9781433579103, 1433579081, 1433579111, 1433579103
• Resource ID: LLS:CNWMNCHRCHQSTNS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-09-12T18:27:00Z

About Greg Gilbert

Greg Gilbert (MDiv, Southern Seminary) is the author of Favor and What Is the Gospel? The senior pastor of Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, he lives with his wife, Moriah, and their three children in Kentucky, where he enjoys basketball, coffee, and Thai food.