Women in the church? 

Yahshua of Nazareth gave guiding principles about relationships among his followers. One of these principles was a warning against emulating the kind of leadership that has been typical throughout most of the world’s history. Yahshua commissioned his followers to be servants rather than masters or rulers (e.g., Mark 10:42-44, Luke 22:24-27, John 13:3-15). Yahshua himself provided the example of “one who serves” (ho diakonōn) (Luke 22:27).

Should women be pastors of churchres? The answer is simple. NO. 

A Bishop/Pastor. 

I believe the same logic and practical application about women's role in the church needs to be applied.
​The husband is to be Bishop over the home. He provides for his family and raises his children with correction and direction and he treats his wife as Yahshua treated the church. In other words His role is to serve his family and to love and protect them. 

What qualifies a man as a Bishop/Pastor?

1 Timothy 3 This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
​2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

We see that one must desire this position and then have certain qualifying characteristics. 
1. He MUST be married. Being a pastor is not a role for a single man or woman. He must be married. 
2. One that ruleth well his own home.
​In other words he has to be a model husband and father and have a good standing in the community. 

The Woman's role in the church. 

 Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
​To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

It is not a competition between men and women as the world sees it but it is a good healthy relationship built of service and morals and good conduct from both the husband and wife and their children. 

Women are required to teach the younger women in the church. 

Women Deacons

Phoebe Deacon of the Church in Cenchrea. 

The English word “deacons” is a transliteration of the Greek word diakonoi. Paul was consistent with how he used the word diakonos (or deacon) in his letters. Paul used the word for people who held some kind of sacred commission. As such, several diakonoi are described as being a diakonos of Christ (1 Tim. 4:6) or of God (e.g. 2 Cor. 6:4), or of the gospel (Eph. 3:7), or of a specific church—a church being a sacred community of “saints.”
Not once does Paul use any diakon– word for ordinary servants.[1] Rather, he typically used the term diakonos for Church Ministers.[2] These diakonoi include Paul himself (Rom. 15:25; 1 Cor. 3:5; Eph. 3:7; Col. 1:23, etc), Timothy (1 Tim. 4:6), Epaphras (Col. 1:7), Tychicus (Eph. 6:21-22; Col. 4:7-9), Apollos (1 Cor. 3:5), and even Jesus Christ (Rom. 15:8). He referred to Phoebe, as a diakonos in Romans 16:1-2.[4] Phoebe was a diakonos, or deacon, of the church at Cenchrea.

​Phoebe whom Paul so highly commended shone as a light for Jesus/Yahshua, the “Light of the World.” That she must have been a woman of some consequence appears from the fact that she planned a long journey to Rome on business of her own, and offered to convey to the saints there Paul’s letter—“an inspired masterpiece of logic which struck the keynote of orthodoxy for the universal Church through all the succeeding ages.”
In some fifty words Paul gives us a beautiful cameo of this saintly servant of the church for whom he urged the saints at Rome to do their utmost.
The importance of her visit is indicated by the appeal of Paul to the Romans to “assist her in whatever matter she had need of.” 

Romans 16:16 I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
2 That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

A succourer of many. We can only agree that she served the church well and was a great agent in the saving and supporting of many including Paul himself. 

Being referred to as “our sister” is an acknowledgement that Phoebe is a member of the community of Yahshua’ followers.[10] The kinship relationship of siblings, or “brothers” (adelphoi), is one of the primary paradigms for relationships among followers in New Testament churches. The idea behind this paradigm is that brothers and sisters are children of the same Father--God,[11] and that they have an equal status in the household of God.

We see this in prophecy from Paul. It appears that the book of Acts and 1 Corinthians were written around the same year. Galatians came at a later time. Romans later again. So what ever happened in Corinth is not mentioned again and is not referring to other women who in all other places were commended for their work in the church. 

​Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Home Church Priscilla and Aquila. 

​VERSE 3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

VERSE 6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.

VERSE 7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

It is believed that Junia is a female Apostle. 

Through social media there is an almost aggressive attack on women and their role and it comes from men of the christian church.
It is disturbing and not a biblical view at all. Based solely on one verse of scripture from Paul addressed to the church at Corinth and is not mentioned by Jesus/Yahshua anywhere in the New Testament. Yahshua had a great revere for women and was close friends with Mary and Martha and it was another Mary that He first appeared to at His resurrection and she at first did not recognise Him but He spoke to her and told her and she went to embrace him but he told her not to touch him but to tell the others. She went and spent much time preaching the good news that He had risen. He chose a woman to be the witness to the resurrection. Assures me that Yahshua had great trust in her and she knew Him well, this also signifies the church as being referred to as a woman often in scripture and this women was representing the bride, she was first to acknowledge His resurrection and believed as did John when He out ran Peter and arrived and Mary told him and he believed. Peter however did not believe and had to come back and forth and took time to understand but later became a strong apostle. 

Paul admonished women to keep silent in the church and do not speak? 

​1 Corinthians 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

​The entire chapter of Acts that states that women must keep silent in the church was dealing with speaking in tongues and it appears that women were trying to speak over their husbands. Paul noted that they were to go home and ask their husbands at a later time so it indicates a group of women who thought they were "Running the show." We have all met them I am sure. 

​However Paul also told the men to be silent if they could not interpret and therefore we can conclude that the women were attempting to interpret for their husbands and seeing as they had turned to the pagan babbling and not actually speaking a language it appears that things got out of hand in Corinth. Downloadable e-book on this subject.  Speaking in tongues. 

Paul also admonished men to keep silent in the church. 

1 Corinthians 14:28 ​But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

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A lady anoints Yahshua with expensive oil. 

A women anointed Yahshua prior to the death and resurrection and the males there tried to tell her to leave but Yahshua reprimanded them saying she understood what He must do and she appeared at that stage to be the only one who did. 

Matthew 6: 12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. 13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

Home Churches; Synagogue means "Place of gathering." 

In New Testament biblical times the churches were home churches. People held sabbath worship in their own homes and as people they invited to come and join them converted they were then to keep church in their own homes and the church grew so that they had to appoint 72 elders to be over areas. Yahshua and the apostles went to different homes as instructed by Yahshua. 

​Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

 Luke 10:1–42 10 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. 

All through the New Testament the savior tried to get people to reason out the commands. He was not impressed with the added rules and rituals that the pharisees were burdening the people with. 
When His disciples picked corn because they were hungry and Yahshua said did they not know that David ate shew bread because he was hungry. 
In other words the commandments are there to be kept but there are at times extenuating circumstances, that require that a particular action be taken out of necessity. The disciples were hungry and grabbed a piece of corn on the way to the synagogue and that seemed to the pharisees as though it required a death sentence. Although they were not doing paid work or going out to carry sticks to light a fire which caused a man to be stoned in the torah. They simply were hungry and picked an ear of corn to eat. 
Again when he healed on the sabbath he again reminded them that to extend love and mercy was loving thy neighbor and yet none of them would quibble if their ox fell in a ditch on the sabbath, of course they would get it out. So we also need to apply logic and common sense to all of the commandments. We keep them because we love Him but at times within the bounds of the commandments there is the need to extend a hand to fill a need and to put restricted man made rules on it that are not in the word is to add to and that is far less acceptable.  

Anna the Prophetess. 

Luke 2:36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

Anna served in the Temple with fastings and prayers and preached continually of the Lord in Jerusalem.