Show me evidence of a woman pastor.
Here are a few....You can dig up more if you want....Its always best to do your own research.
Pastor Priscilla
Prisca was one of Paul’s closest friends. They were such dear friends that the apostle called her by the diminutive version of her name, Priscilla.
Priscilla and her husband Aquila were Jewish business people who met Paul in Corinth and travelled with him to Ephesus (Acts 18). When Paul left Ephesus, Priscilla and Aquila stayed behind and continued to preach the gospel
Pastor Nympha
At a time when the church only met in people’s homes, several women were recognized as church leaders. Priscilla was one; Nympha was another.
Pastor Chloe and her people
Chloe is another one of those intriguing people who gets only a single mention in the Bible: “I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe’s people, that there are quarrels among you” (1 Cor. 1:11).
We don’t know anything about Chloe other than she lived in Corinth and she had people.
Who were these people? Were they her companions or a church that met in her house? We can’t be sure. But in the same way that “men from James” came to Antioch, “people from Chloe” came to Paul, and he recognized her as a leader within the church community. In short, she was a pastor.
And here's a few of the women prophets
1. Rebekah
“So she went to inquire of the LORD.” —Genesis 25:22
At verses like this, a misogynist religion runs into problems. Rebekah speaks to God. What to do? The usual solution: invent a man who does it for her! As Esther Hamori notes in Women’s Divination in Biblical Literature, Rebekah’s approach to Yahweh in Genesis 25:22 is often read to say: “Rebekah went to some third party so that he could inquire of Yahweh for her.”
But there is no hint of a male intermediary, and we wouldn’t expect to find one. Many women in the Bible, Hamori notes, are found “engaging in independent divination.”
The brutal truth is that Christianity changed the Bible in “interpretation” into another text—enforcing its misreadings, often, by violence. All along, women have as much access to God as men.
2. Miriam
“Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a hand-drum in her hand…” — Exodus 15:20
Miriam is identified as a prophet, which confuses Christian readers. She doesn’t give speeches. What does she do besides—playing music?
But a prophet is often a musician, as God is seen in the Bible as accessed through music (cf. 1 Sam 10:5; 2 Ki 3:15, etc.). What Christians might not know is that Heaven is “a place of music,” as Mark S. Krause notes.
To play music is to connect with the divine. And so Miriam starts the party.
Her music is loud—like the sounds of war, as noted in Exodus 32:1-8. And note, there’s later women who play in a similar style (1 Sam 18:6–7; 21:11; 29:5), so they might be ‘prophets’ too.
3. Rahab the Harlot
“I know that the Lord has given you this land…” —Joshua 2:9
A mystic hooker from a dusty city changes the world. What an outrageous story! Christian readers often don’t know about Rahab the Harlot, and if they do, they don’t like her. She a prostitute.
But check out James 2:25, where Rahab is akin to the great Abraham! She was the first non-Jew to enter the covenant community. Rahab was celebrated in early Christianity—because had been the first!
All along, Rahab is discussed as a prophet. She has a mystical ability to know things. She guides the Israeli spies with foresight, and predicts Yahweh will prevail over all other gods.
As Tikva Frymer-Kensky writes: “The first prophet after Moses to announce to Israel the paths of her history, Rahab becomes the first oracle of Israel’s destiny.”
4. Deborah
“Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.” — Judges 4:4
Because Christian readers often hate female spiritual authority, Deborah has been a real problem. Esther Hamori notes: “With baffling frequency, interpreters question whether Deborah was ‘really’ a prophet.”
Deborah is a prophet, and a musician. She leads her people in song in Judges 5. She speaks in God’s own voice (4:6–7,9,14). She’s a judge, and a “mother in Israel” (5:7), a phrase that suggests an oracular ability.
And she isn’t a “female prophet”—she’s a prophet. As Hamori observes: “There is no good indication that the ancient author was preoccupied with Deborah’s gender or intended to write a story about Deborah ‘as a woman,’ let alone a story about womankind.”
5. Tamar
“She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.” —2 Samuel 13:2
Growing up Christian, Tamar was that “bad” story back in 2 Samuel 13—of a man, Amnon, obsessed with his half-sister. He pretends to be sick, and when she comes to tend to him, he rapes her.
The real story, I realize now, was that Christianity didn’t like details of women in spiritual offices, and misrepresented this narrative. Let’s re-read? Because the details, as it turns out, tell the story.
In v.18, Tamar wears a special coat said to be reserved for ‘virgin daughters’. In “Tamar and the ‘Coat of Many Colors’,” Adrien Janis Bledstein maps out the connections. This coat is “high status, sacred garb”—the same one worn, earlier by Joseph. It signals a divine power of dream interpretation.
In the ancient world, it turns out, a sick person was thought to have a spiritual problem. A ‘sacred virgin’, as Bledstein details, was sent to administer a meal which induced a dream. The dream was interpreted to effect the healing.
When Amnon pretends to be ill, he knows Tamar will come to him in her sacred office. This is not about sex. By biblical law, he can rape her, and claim the status of her husband (cf. Deut 22.28–29). She is David’s daughter, a princess. He’s then boosted his status in the line of succession.
This is Amnon’s bid to become king. The evil that men do for power.
6. Hannah
“Here I am, Lord!” —1 Samuel 1:8 (LXX)
The way Christians tell it, Hannah was a woman who didn’t have any kids. What more tragedy could befall any woman! She needs a kid! She prays to God to get one, and promises to devote him to religious service.
Many Christian women have been given this text to invoke when they are approaching motherhood. But 1 Samuel 1:2–2:21 is not a story about childlessness or using the Bible to get pregnant.
Hannah is a prophetess. The song she sings is deeply theologically informed. The objective here is not just popping out another Jewish kid, but the mesisah. In “Hannah at Pentecost: On Recognizing Spirit Phenomena in Early Jewish Literature,” Reed Carlson notes a whole phrase got snipped out of 1 Samuel 1:8: “Here I am, Lord!”
This is a loaded phrase, said used by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is a direct address to Yahweh. “It adds to the other indications here that Hannah is meant to be seen as a prophetess,” as Carlson explains.
As Hannah prays, she enters a prophetic state of trance. She’s interacting with the spirit world in a way that appears to be deranged! The High Priest thinks she’s drunk. Another clueless man!
She gives birth and, Carlson notes, “shows herself to be the true forebear of Samuel both naturally and in terms of office.”
7. Isaiah’s wife
“And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son.” — Isaiah 8:3
The woman who bears Isaiah’s son is sometimes called his ‘wife’, which is just Christians being Christian. The text says that Isaiah goes to ‘the prophetess’.
We know little about this woman. As Esther Hamori writes: “What she does in the story, she does only through her reproductive capacity: she bears a sign-child. This woman literally delivers an oracle.”
8. Huldah
“Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Akbor, Shaphan and Asaiah went to speak to the prophet Huldah…” — 2 Kings 22:14
A lost scroll is found in the Temple. The Jewish men know what to do—they go ask a woman for her take. As Esther Hamori notes, many commentators have expressed puzzlement why this would occur, but “there is nothing in the text to indicate that this was unusual…”
Huldah issues the grim words of God: “I am going to bring disaster on this place and its people…”
As often in the Bible, the really brutal disclosures are done by women. Their remarks may not be extensive. No woman prophet writes a whole book. They do quick, quiet disclosures, saying what men can’t bear to say.
9. Mary
The New Testament is an explosion of female prophetic activity. From Anna (Lk 2:36–38) to Philip’s daughter (Acts 21:8–9), women are seeing signs and having visions. In 1 Corinthians 14, Paul tells them they should try and act orderly so they don’t scare people. Prophesy is a little scary!
That may suggest context to Mary, the mother of Jesus. We might not imagine a quiet, serene little slip of a girl. This is a woman whose is not really some dewy, mystic angel. To study passages like Luke 1.26–56, Mary is really a theological heavy-hitter, and we’d imagine a woman of profound insight.
We might also understand her to be a prophet. As N. Clayton Croy and Alice E. Connor observe in a study of the issue: “While its primary purpose is to announce a birth, the Lukan annunciation may also intend to depict Mary as a bearer of prophetic revelation.”
10. The woman who anoints Jesus
“Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.” —Mark 14:9
In Mark 14:3–9, Jesus is anointed. The scene is not one of Christianity’s favorites. A key task of a prophet was to anoint a king, and so it happens here. But it’s a woman who performs this sacred task.
Richard Bauckham writes: “Admittedly, it would no doubt be very surprising for the Messiah to be anointed by a woman, but she might have been seen in the role of a prophet, like Samuel, inspired by God to recognize and designate his Anointed One (cf. 1 Sam 16:1–13).”
Who the ‘woman’ is invites a bunch of textual issues. I suspect it was Mary Magdalene. But I’d just note, for now, the Bible never suggests men have more spiritual ability than women. It suggests the opposite!
Now do some digging for yourself and you'll learn better....Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you.
It's fun digging up pastors....LOL
But concerning an Organize Religion, with it rules of Operations which has been define by manKind, is a quarry within its own......... Ordinations, of all kinds of Churches, have all kinds of tests and Requirements, to "preach, To teach, to Lecture, to serve the "Lords Supper", to perform Marriages, to Perform Funerals, Commit the Body to The Grave, visit Prisoners, and Hospitals at odd times of the day and night, and to what Modern Day Christianity calls "Preaching" in which a person must be "License" or "Ordained" by men to do these things. But to "witness" or "Proclaim" what JESUS has done for you requires no License no "Presbytery" to do so
