Women taking leadership roles

inquiry

WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW IS NOT WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAID BUT WHAT YEAR AND WHAT
NATION AND OR COUNTRY DID WOMEN FEEL THE NEED TO BECOME PASTORS, MINISTERS.
PREACHERS, AND WHEN THEY WERE CALLED INTO THE SERVICE OF THE LORD
THANK YOU

response

In the New Testament we have a number of examples of women in 
ministry. Ray Stedman mentions this in his article on Women in the 
Ministry, http://pbc.org/dp/stedman/misc/woteach.html

For the first 250 years Christians met in home churches and it was 
not unusual for a husband and wife to lead the meetings. Or a widow 
might host the meetings.

The rise of the feminist movement in recent years has certainly 
propelled all sorts of women into church leadership and into the 
pulpit. Concerning how many of these women were actually "called" by 
God and how many were simply responding to the sociology of the times 
I have no idea.