God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
There is no reference anywhere in the New Testament to a female elder. You may wish to object by pointing out that this is an argument from silence... The bottom line is that we simply have no biblical precedent for female elders nor anything in the text that describes their nature, function, and qualifications that would lead us to believe that this could ever be a possibility.
