Evidently, those churches which Paul had someting to do with...
I Timothy 3: 1 Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. 2 Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect.
... and he was a "misogynist" according to your "modern" standards. I'll trust his words for it! But, we are talking about Scripture and everybody knows the scholars ca do anything they w=is!
1 Tinothy 2: 11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
I know of no organized conservative/bible-believing/evangelical denomination that makes it a requirement to be married to be a pastor.
IF you are married, you are, in obedience to the SINGLE Church planter/PASTOR extraordinaire, the Apostle Paul, to "be the husband of one wife," but NO (conservative/evangelical) Bible scholar worth his salt understands that--given Paul's state, Timothy's state (the pastor Paul wrote...with lots of greetings to lots of people, but never mentioning a wife...)and the rest of scripture's statements about leadership--to MAKE MARRIAGE A REQUIREMENT FOR MINISTRY. Of course though apparently the Pharisees made it virtually a requirement...
Scripture must be understood in its context--and if Paul meant church leadership must be married in the passage you quote...than he disqualified himself AND the Lord Jesus, and and a few of the Old Testament prophets as well...which is absurd.
Please tell me what this means:
1Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. ...
6But this I say by way of concession, not of command.
7Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.
8But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. ...
32But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
33but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,34and his interests are divided.(I Cor. 7:1-2, 6-7, 32-34)
Seems to me Paul is obviously saying that if one can handle it, singleness is to be preferred...for dedication to the Lord's sake.
Again, if your understanding of scripture is so obvious, that marriage is REQUIRED of Church leaders, what Christian Churches/denominations today REQUIRE a pastor to be married? Or are all churches other than the church of "WVKayaker" apostate?
Biblical ignorance, close-minded fear and bigotry are behind excluding single men from the pastorate, NOT the holy Word of God!