Female Pastors Double in Past Decade

George Barna has reported that there has been a dramatic rise of female pastors. He begins his report stating that prior to 1990 there was virtually no growth of female pastors serving in protestant churches. Then he states, "From the early 1990s through 1999 just 5% of the Senior Pastors of Protestant churches were female. Since that time the proportion has slowly but steadily risen, doubling to 10% in 2009."

This trend is just one more marker for the loss of the conviction of the sufficiency of scripture within the church. This rising number of female pastors stands among many other contemporary trends which indicate that the church is becoming more and more a mirror of the world and is losing its distinctiveness. But why? No longer is she governed by bible doctrine, but by pragmatic considerations.