Is it lawful for a woman to be a pastor? The Bible, in the book of Genesis, shares with us the story of the fall, and there we see that the devil in the serpent doesn't go to Adam, but he goes to Eve.
It's important in this regard to understand that Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived, according to First Timothy, that important Adam was not deceived, because it was in His design to not be deceived by the devil.
He, Adam was not deceived because God designed him to tend and to keep or to build and protect and so in the building and protection rule in the church, likewise, God has set the man for that is what a pastor is. It is the quintessential man in the house of God.
This is why, when the Apostle Paul was giving the instructions concerning who's to be an elder and overseer, he says the overseer is supposed to be a husband of one wife, able to rule his own house.
Well, for if a man know not know how to rule his own house, how can he take care of the house of God. What was he saying for the title and the role of Pastor?
A man has to be chosen because it is in the design of God for the man to tend and to keep. When we go to the text in Genesis 2 we see that the serpent went to the one who was not designed to tend and to keep; he went to the woman. And so in the Apostle Paul's instructions concerning who is to be teaching and and all of that in the church. He mentions that the man was designed first, created first.
That's authority.
That's the design of God. That God designed the man specifically for the tending and keeping function. And then he goes on, and he says that the man was not deceived again, illustrating that deception is not the weakness, so to speak, of the man's design.