A woman is never to set herself up as a teacher in the ministry – or teach at services – as that would mean that men would then be subject to women and would reverse the order that God has set in place. A woman should not be placed in any ministerial capacity and today women preachers have taken unto themselves authority that is not rightfully theirs. The Church of God has taught for decades that only men should be in the ministry. We are to live by every Word of God – and that is the plain teaching of Scripture.