Women Pastors Biblical Response: Cultural Compromise and Church Authority

Houston, we have a Jamaal Bryant Problem!

It might seem I might have developed a fixation about Jamaal Bryant, but I most assuredly want to allay your fears that that is not to be the case. I, like Voddie Baucham, am just the mailman delivering the news.

Once I was made aware of this by my trusted, highly paid staff member (if you want to fault anyone, we can shift your attention to her), I felt compelled to address it. But, with all seriousness, Jamaal Bryant continues to write his own obituary, seemingly day by day.

When the Church begins defending what Scripture warns against, something very bad has shifted and done so with eternal consequences hanging in the balance.

Recently, Jamaal Bryant publicly criticized Evangelicals who questioned the appropriateness of Bad Bunny as a Super Bowl halftime performer. The critique implied that Evangelicals who object lack cultural awareness and openness to ideas they may not be familiar with.

I am reluctant to recommend you watch the video, but for research purposes, I did, and I was genuinely distressed as I watched the camera pan across the audience throughout Bryant's pathetic attempt at preaching.

Time and time again, the camera (done with full intent to create a false impression) would capture the faces of African-Americans church-attendees (I don't know what else to call them, as they are not true worshippers) in glowing admiration and delight in what was being blasphemously communicated from what they would regard as the pulpit. All I saw was a clown show by a man and a woman in fine, colorful attire.

Jamaal Bryant carries water for the Adversary.

• He does so when he presents his wife as a co-Pastor of the Church

• He does so when he maligns Evangelicals for not falling in line with the world

• He does so when he maligns faithful men like Charlie Kirk

• He does so when he uses his platform to endorse public officials who are found to be hypocritical and abuse their office, all the while they attempt to persecute and prosecute others

• He does so when he endorses clearly illicit and immoral behavior in the guise of Christian tolerance and acceptance of others

Editor's note: I believe I could make a strong case that Bryant's wife was in clear violation of the biblical injunction against women adorning themselves in ostentatious attire, but I will press on without further comment.

But the issue is not cultural acceptance. It is holiness because, believe it or not, holiness indeed matters to a thrice-holy God. Thus, even as I peck away on my Mac, my soul reminds itself that I must continually be on guard, lest I become disqualified myself. Precisely why I will end this blog post as I do all blog posts, with fear & trembling, genuine heartfelt fear & trembling.

Brethren, let us forget or take for granted that it is indeed a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God, period, full-stop, and end of story.

Bad Bunny and Biblical Sexual Ethics

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Bad Bunny’s music includes explicit sexual content, profanity, and genderfluid symbolism. His performances regularly center on sensual choreography and provocative imagery.

Scripture commands:

“But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you…” — Ephesians 5:3

The Church does not exist to sanctify what the culture celebrates. The Bride of Jesus Christ exists to serve as a solvent and illuminator in front of a dying and rapidly decaying world. Instead of Bryant and his wife using their ill-gotten platform (as it springs from the pit of Hell) to chastise Evangelicals, they need to do as Justin Peters calls all charlatans to do: sell off all proceeds derived from their ministries, repent, and join a bible-believing and bible-preaching Church. Yet, you know full well, as I do, that this is highly unlikely to happen.

Now, it most certainly can happen, as Evangelicals know and can testify from first-hand experience that all things are possible with Jesus Christ, and that should be the prayer of all Christ-followers, as we do not wish anyone to perish. Yet, we must also be realists and acknowledge that many are traveling on the Broad road, despite their false profession of faith.

Discernment is not intolerance. It is obedience, and it dishonors the Triune God when God's people call good evil and call what is evil good. There is nothing redeeming and wholesome associated with Bad Bunny, and the Scriptures are replete with warnings for the Christ-follower:

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14)

Therefore, go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord (2 Corinthians 6:17)

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. (Ephesians 5:11)

The Question of Women Preaching

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The Apostle Paul writes:

“I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man…” — 1 Timothy 2:12

“The overseer must be the husband of one wife…” — 1 Timothy 3:2

These passages are not cultural relics. They are apostolic instructions. If Bryant’s wife is preaching authoritatively from the pulpit, that raises serious ecclesiological concerns.

This is not a matter of a woman's value or worth. It concerns biblical order, so no matter how eloquent a woman is, her eloquence will never supersede the force of God's Word. The matter is not relegated to skill or ability; it centers on biblical authority and legitimacy.

If you attend a Church that has females in pastoral roles, then you are not attending a Church that Jesus Christ has built, and thus the gates of Hell will most certainly prevail. The question of women's ordination is not abstract to me. My youngest brother pastored a Church that endorsed a woman pastor. Following my brother's death, a woman now serves as Pastor.

In fact, before my grandmother passed, this woman would visit to give her the Lord's Supper, and I was in attendance at one such occasion. Out of respect for my grandmother, I participated, and I still regret doing so to this day. Thank God that Jesus Christ has nailed all of our sins to the Cross.

Conservative Evangelical Voices on Women Pastors

This is not an obscure or fringe conviction within conservative Evangelicalism. Many leading theologians have articulated a complementarian understanding of church leadership rooted in Scripture.

Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has written:

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“The office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture. This is not a matter of cultural preference but biblical authority.”

Mohler argues that once the pastoral office is detached from apostolic instruction in 1 Timothy 2–3, the authority of Scripture itself is weakened.

The late Pastor John MacArthur, longtime pastor of Grace Community Church, has stated:

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“When the Bible speaks, we submit. The pastoral role is reserved for qualified men. That is not chauvinism; that is obedience.”

MacArthur frequently grounds his position in 1 Timothy 2:12 and 1 Timothy 3:2, arguing that the pastoral office carries governing and doctrinal authority within the gathered church.

Pastor John Piper has likewise affirmed:

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“The Bible does not teach that women are inferior, but it does teach that the responsibility of an Elder or Pastor is a role given to qualified men.”

Piper distinguishes between the equal dignity of men and women and the differentiated roles described in the pastoral epistles.

The Baptist Faith & Message (2000), the doctrinal statement of the Southern Baptist Convention, explicitly states:

“While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.”

This is not merely a traditional stance. It is a confessional one.

The debate, then, is not about capability. It is about authority and submission to the text.

If Scripture is clear, faithfulness requires obedience—even when cultural pressures otherwise.

A Women Pastors Biblical Response from Scripture

This is a Women Pastors' biblical response, rooted in biblical authority, not cultural fashion. As a result, I care not at all how popular or practiced the Woman Pastor becomes in this generation; I will never bend the knee to culture, and you are foolish and reckless to posit that Women's ordination is not a first-order biblical issue.

When the Church Mirrors the Culture

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Romans 12:2 commands believers not to be conformed to this world.

The modern temptation is to baptize celebrity culture and call it relevance.

But the church is called to be set apart.

When pulpits defend worldliness, the prophetic witness weakens.

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As always, keep your hands to the plow and seek to serve for an Audience of One.

With fear & trembling,

Ricky V Kyles Sr. DEd.Min.