*PASTOR BANKIE: ANSWERS
TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP & MARRIAGE QESTIONS (7)
Question: Sir, if a man is in the ministry, shouldn't his
wife also be in the ministry with him? Is it
possible for a preacher and his wife to be
pursuing different careers?
to join them in ministering; the women are encouraged to do
essentially
what the husband is doing. I don't think that is right most of the
times.
Generally speaking, being in ministry just means to work in
one way or another in the ministry. If this is what we are talking
about, then it is good. I preach and my wife helps Kingdom-Word
Ministries in whichever way needed. She leads prayers; being a
trained accountant she helps with the auditing of accounts; she
runs
a business and the business gives to the ministry. Also she and
others among my co-workers sometimes teach or give exhortations in
our meetings, especially when I am absent. She has also honoured
some speaking engagements on her own. It is all good.
However, being called into the ministry of the word as a
calling can only be done by God and a husband cannot do it. It
does not come to you by association. As at today my wife is not a
preacher, and I cannot make her one. It is a wrong concept to
expect that a preacher's wife must also be a preacher. It has no
foundation in the scriptures. The only people is the Bible that I
am
aware of who were both in preaching ministries as a couple were
Priscilla and Aquila, and Isaiah the prophet and his wife (he
called
her the prophetess). Most of the men mentioned in the Bible as
preachers were married but you rarely hear of their wives being
mentioned as ministers. Quite a number of women in the Bible were
also mentioned as prophetesses (Miriam, Deborah, Huldah etc), but
apart from Priscilla and Mrs Isaiah I cannot easily recollect any
other
whose husband was also a preacher.
So we see that it was never implied that a man's wife must
also be a minister of the word because he is one. If the woman is
a minister, it will manifest and the husband should encourage her.
However, if she is not, he should not even try to make her one; it
is unnecessary. Just like a businessman can have a preacher as a
wife, and a doctor can have a school teacher as a wife, so can a
preacher's wife belong to any calling that the Lord chooses. She
does
not have to share your gift to be an effective helper; life has many
facets.
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