Can a Woman Testify on the Street, Win Souls and Direct Them to a Church?
Direct Answer
Yes. A woman may testify on the street, win souls to Christ, and point them to a true, Bible-believing church. But she must not take the office of a preacher, teach doctrine with authority over men, or act as a pastor. She can witness, pray, share her testimony, and lead people to repentance, while keeping the order of headship and modesty laid down in Scripture.
Scriptural Explanation
- John 4:28–30, 39: The Samaritan woman testified in the city, and “many… believed” because of her word. Jesus did not rebuke her witness; He used it.
- Acts 2:17: “Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.” God anoints daughters to speak by inspiration.
- Acts 21:9: Philip had four daughters who prophesied.
- Luke 2:36–38: Anna, a prophetess, “spake of Him to all them that looked for redemption.”
- Titus 2:3–5: Women are to teach what is good, especially to younger women.
- 1 Peter 3:1–2: A wife’s chaste conduct can win an unbelieving husband—showing women can be instruments to win souls.
- Boundaries: 1 Timothy 2:11–12 forbids a woman to teach or usurp authority over a man, and 1 Corinthians 14:34–35 sets order in the church assembly. 1 Corinthians 11:5 acknowledges women praying or prophesying, but under headship.
Simple Clarifying Logic
- The Bible shows women speaking of Christ and God using it to bring many to Him. So personal witness, testifying, and pointing souls to church is right.
- The same Bible also draws a line: a woman is not to teach or exercise authority over men in the ministry office or in the public assembly as a preacher.
- Therefore, she may:
- Share her testimony, the Gospel, Scriptures, tracts, and prayer on the street or in homes.
- Bring converts to the elders/pastor and the gathered church for baptism, teaching, and oversight.
- Keep modesty and headship in spirit and appearance, avoiding contentious debate and not setting herself as a doctrinal authority over men.
Short Reinforcing Statement
If women could never speak of Christ, why did the Lord use the Samaritan woman to stir a whole city, and why does Scripture say daughters shall prophesy? God uses women to win souls, but He keeps the pulpit and governmental teaching authority in the hands of qualified men.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The Queen of the South
58-0620 §35
Now, if we would only testify of the goodness of God, if we would only tell what He's doing, and not be ashamed of it... "If I be lifted up from the earth," said Jesus, "I will draw all men unto Me." Then if we'd only tell of the goodness of God that He's doing for us in these meetings... And it creates a thirst. And the little queen, finally decided, after so many people telling her that this great gift was up in Israel, she decided she'd go find out for herself. That's a good thing to do. Well now remember, she h...
Souls that are in prison now
63-1110M §110
Remember, "She that liveth in worldly pleasure," (of the things of the world, acting like it. She could go to church and act like a saint. That don't have one thing to do with it,) but she's dead while she's living. Look what the denominations has done for her. They've made her handler of the Holy Word, which is contrary to the Bible. They made her a preacher. It's forbidden of the Scripture. Even makes her now become ruler, mayor, governors, everything in the country, and a minister in the house of God, when she's...
A Greater than Solomon is here
61-0515 §44
Then you know what? I went to the window, and coming down that street (if I shall live to be a hundred and could be in my mind, I shall never forget that) there come seven big British vans (I don't know that you know what they are or not---about as long as from here back to that wall.) loaded full of crutches, boards, wheelchairs, instruments, that they had been packed out of the jungles for hundreds of miles, and weeks coming, like that. There they was in them, the seven van loads, piled up to the top. And behind...
Questions and Answers
61-0112 §138
She jumped up. I said, "Sit down." She started on. I said, "Sit down!" See? And, boy, everybody... I just stopped. She acted like she didn't hear me, and I squalled it out again. She heard me that time, 'cause I like to shook the building over with that big microphone standing right there. And she sat down. I said, "Now, as I was saying, how many wants to come to the altar and give their hearts to God?" And I went right ahead with the meeting, see. And that night when I started the truck, I was surrounded. And here...
Perseverance
62-0608 §106
Now, that was a man. Here's a woman. Let's have just one more, and then we'll start just praying for the sick, see if we can get down that line. Come near me, sister. I believe we're strangers one to another. We don't ... we're just two people that met here, the very same way in a panoramic like this at Sychar there, where Jesus met the woman at the well. Here we are, man and woman, met first time in life. Oh, my! I wish that... I could see the power of Satan moved away. How can we stand and see this, and then not...