SBC Take Note: Christian and Missionary Alliance Denomination (CMA) Approves Women Pastors in Historic Vote
In a historic vote, the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) has agreed to allow women to serve in pastoral roles, with 60% of delegates gathered at their 2023 General Council meeting signing and sealing the fate of the denomination.
For years the CMA, with its 6 million members in 22,000 churches in 90 countries, has been laboring with a dysfunctional and schizophrenic policy on pastrixes. The denomination allows women to be ‘consecrated for ministry’- letting them preach, teach, baptize, marry folks, oversee funerals, and counsel congregants- while withholding the coveted title of ‘pastor’ from them.
Instead, appointed ladies received titles like ‘Consecrated Women of God,’ a moniker many women felt was an insufficient half-measure, pushing them to grasp for more. While they can now be ordained as pastors, the “senior pastor” role is still relegated to men only, which, as anyone with half a brain knows, will be the next domino to fall.
Founded in the late 19th century as a parachurch ministry and later formed into a new evangelical denomination in the 1970s, the CMA has a significant emphasis on missions and missionary work, Jesus’ role as a healer, and an intense focus on personal sanctification, such as “High Life Movement which half the time is nothing more than a bastardized form of sinless perfectionism in disguise.
Speaking to the gathered delegates, U.S. Air Force Chaplain Krista Lain insisted that these new freedom afforded by the denomination would only show that the CMA stands behind their pastrixes, sharing:
“Being ordained would make my life a lot easier as a military chaplain, not having to make the big long explanation, but it’s so much more than that. I am called to join God in raising up a vast army from dry bones by the breath of the Holy Spirit. … I know I have angel armies backing me up. But I wonder, do I have the Alliance family backing me up?”
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Sad. Really Sad. Watchman Nee would roll over in his grave, as would A.W. Tozer.
Watchman Nee is a false teacher in many, many ways. His body/soul/spirit teaching is based upon false interpretation of Scripture, and it is coupled with his incorrect teaching of the so-called “Carnal Christian” in 1 Cor 2, to produce some powerful false doctrine. He teaches falsely about Romans 7 & 8 to bolster his unsound doctrinal positions. He teaches the mystical “hearing from God” garbage as well as complete physical healing in this life. His book, “The Spiritual Man”, is nothing short of heresy. If Nee was part of the roots of CMA, that explains a lot. CMA has always been a hot bed of false teachers. Look up CMA’s biggest darling, Fred Hartley, pastor of One Mission Church (a CMA church) and his completely off the rails, heretical College of Prayer ministry. Shame on you for thinking Watchman Nee is rolling over in his grave about a false doctrine.
Yeah, surely God misspoke through His prophets concerning women teaching and the qualifications for MALE overseers…
Let’s just ignore Scripture we don’t particularly agree with : )
Stick a fork in them…THEY ARE DONE!! Soon enough more sin and depravity will follow. I was baptized and found my wife at the CMA. It was doctrinally lite in the shoes back 35 years ago. It was partly founded by a wayward and schismatic Presbyterian…A.B. Simpson. And now they go the way of so many doctrinally flakey denoms. They’ll probably go sodomite before long. I left when I couldn’t stand their Arminianism and dispensationalism anymore. Schism has it’s consequences.
The CMA in Canada voted to ordain women in 2012, when the word “men” was changed to “persons.” The denominational leaders said it was just to recognize their giftedness, and not to put them in authority over men. I suspected they were lying, and my suspicions were confirmed in 2016 when the national assembly voted to allow women to become senior pastors in churches that already had female elders. There are now several CMA churches in Canada that have a majority of women elders and/or as senior pastors. See, for example, https://www.victoriaalliance.ca and https://redwoodpark.ca . The latter has changed the gospel by adding reconciliation to the earth.
I recognize one of the women in the photograph at the top of this post, and I remember her having ambitions to rule over men in a Christian setting going back at least as far as her undergraduate university days. It took 30 years, but the CMA in Canada put Rev. in front of her name in 2013.
It’s only a matter of time before the CMA in Canada and elsewhere caves in to the alphabet perverts–all the while continuing to claim that the Bible is their only authority of faith and practice.
I recognize two of them
A great step on the road to full recognition. I hope all yu men know that there will be more women in heaven than men?
I hope you repent and come to your senses and learn obedience at the foot of Christ. Being a fool isn’t a good way to go through life. And you have no idea who and how many of each sex will be in heaven…just stop!!
This is what happens when the church bows to the pressure of modern cultural change rather than holding fast to the eternal Truth of God’s scripture. The Alliance has started down the slippery slope. Women elders will be next. LGBTQ “pastors” will follow. It’s only a matter of time once the authority of scripture has been abandoned…
These scriptures were rightly interpreted hundreds of years ago and they have not changed. What has changed is our culture, and rather than be counter-cultural, as Christ was, the Alliance seeks to appease modern culture with this change.
It is dis- heartening to see the CMA cave on this issue. I have attended the CMA for 35 years and was impressed on their willingness to stand somewhat firm on this issue. What makes the new leadership more enlightened than those who have gone before? I was reminded this only creates division in the church, and where would that come from?