The Bible doesn't mention the involvement of the pastor's wife in leading the Church ministry.The main area of women's responsibility is to support and be submissive to her husband Ephesians 5:22-24 "Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority as you have placed yourselves under the Lord’s authority. The husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. It is his body, and he is its Savior. As the church is under Christ’s authority, so wives are under their husbands’ authority in everything."
If the Lord calls a man into the ministry, that includes the man's wife and his entire family. It at times differs from the denomination and board settings of a specific Church but the scriptures shouldn't be ignored as a measuring rode of any decisions that would be reached regarding this context.
Paul in 1Timothy 3 gives us the qualifications of a "bishop" or what we call a pastor today, and in verse four we see: one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence.Rules well means being a biblical husband with a submissive wife, and children that love & give him respect.The pastor who is the head of the home will be more successful as a leader in the church he pastors, and this means that his wife is his helper in the ministry of the home and the church.They partner in the ministry & all areas of life and not just in the home affairs.Let the woman exercise her duties freely without touching her husband's God-ordained position of heading the Church and the home.
The wife shouldn't do the work of the pastor, but the pastor and his wife are a team who are working together to do God's service.Many people want to put the pastor's wife strictly to keep the home fires burning and the husband's prayer partner.Partly that is her responsibility but most often the pastor's wife has gifts that can be used in the ministry. Also, there are women whose husbands are pastors and they see it as his ministry and don't join him. There should be a good balancing between these two ideas to bring glory to God in all things.A pastor's wife is very important to the church.
A Biblically sound Pastor will head the home and the Church while taking note of his wife's spiritual gifts and other potentials by putting them to use both at home and in the Church under him.
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Andama Godfrey
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