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Re: Can Women Pastor ?
Phoebe is believed to have delivered the book of Romans after traveling some 800 miles
from Cenchrea near Corinth to Rome. Paul writes “I commend10 (or introduce) to you,
our sister Phoebe,” Then he introduces her as a minister11 of the church in Cenchrea and
urges the church at Rome to help her with the matter that brings her to Rome, for “she
has been a great help to many people, including me.” The word translated merely “great
WOMEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH DID WHAT?
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help” or “helper” is a word meaning “a woman set over others, a patroness,”!12 She was
not a servant in the way we think of a servant, but a wealthy woman with money to use to
travel and to protect and help others. She served as a minister.
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