I hope this is not a very controversial topic but it’s something I feel like talking about today. And forgive me if I take too long on my explanation.

First of all, I would like you all to keep in mind some things that are my starting point for this take: We don't probe the Lord's mind and we'll never understand the reason behind certain things, but we Christians must submit to Christ's lordship regardless of what that lordship declares because we know that God's will is good, perfect, and pleasing.

That said, it is important to remember that from the Old to the New Testament there were no women in the priestly office. This is the starting point for understanding things. Jesus chose 12 disciples in the New Testament, whose authority was given to be true bishops of the Christian church. This was not a coincidence at all, Jesus had a purpose for them from (before) the day they were born. We know that there were very godly women who could have been called to be disciples, but they weren't. When the disciples cowered, women were the ones who stood at the feet of the cross and the tomb of Jesus. But still, they weren't called to be disciples.

The most used arguments in favor of female pastoral ministry are those that reveal how women in the Bible were valued and acted in the Christian church as prophetesses, missionaries, etc., which makes it clear that the greatest fear of a person who accepts female pastorship is that denying the same implies the diminution of women.
Using missionaries, evangelists, prophetesses as an example for the episcopal/pastoral office is by no means plausible. They are totally different trades.

In addition to the argument "women spoke and preached the gospel by helping the disciples, therefore, they are pastors/bishops", there is an assumption that most likely Priscilla wrote Hebrews. This hypothesis is one of the least accepted by Christians, it doesn't make sense to say that it was probably her if we don't even have a lot of information about her. In fact, most tend to agree more with the possibility of it being Paul or Apollo, for example, as the author made use of a male participle when referring to himself in the Greek manuscript (although some women claim that scribes adulterated the manuscript).

Anyway, my focus is not even discoursing about the authorship of Hebrews and its various historical-archaeological possibilities, because several defenders of the female pastorate have serious problems with the understanding of biblical inerrancy and bibliology saying that the bible is not uniform, that there are cultural ideologies barring Jesus from ordaining women, etc. What matters here is to realize that ALL arguments are grounded in imagination and hypotheses. No matter what happens, the fact is, it is not known if there were secret agent pastors in the New Testament. The pastoral office is a very serious business, and it is very dangerous to create parallel lines in it based on imagination.
IT IS POSSIBLE that Priscilla wrote Hebrews. It is POSSIBLE that if the women were collaborators, they would also be "pastors." None of this is certain. But of course we have the biblical text of 1 Timothy 3 on what the overseers of the church should be. And if you take a look you’ll notice that the requirements are male-oriented.
Everything in the bible is well thought out, the apostles did not take the words of chance, it was the Holy Spirit himself inspiring them. Why isn’t there a secondary option for women just like we see in the next passage talking about deacons? Cause when we get to the deacons part, he adds a note for women in the midst.
Now, was it a coincidence?

God chose a male human, Christ the man, to stand for Himself as God on Earth. The priests in the Old testament were there representing God before the people and for that office all had to be men. The same happens nowadays with pastors. The pastoral office is not just another way to preach the gospel. It is a whole different thing. We need to keep in mind that a pastor is representing Christ in Church just like Christ served and spoke for the Father on Earth. Persona Christi is not just a beautiful word but it’s meaningful so we can understand that men were called to represent Christ and be the tool wherein Christ will work through.

Women are not called for that. That should not hurt you as a woman. Remember what I said in the beginning! His will is good, perfect and pleasing. If he chose things to be like that, we should honestly look at the Scriptures, confess it and submit to His lordship even when our ego may be hurt.

If the pastoral office was not of much importance, the Bible would have kept it hidden, it would have said little about it. But in the opposite, Bible is very clear to us about this office and makes its importance clear to us as well.

Assuming that God considers this office important to the point of having left it well expressed in the biblical texts, it can be believed that, if He wanted women to exercise this office, He would have made it as clear as He left it to men. One can say that the culture of the time was sexist or something like that, but Jesus would never submit to earthly ideologies if they were against His holy morals. Jesus did not care about the culture when he revealed himself to the woman at the well, nor when he left women the opportunity to be the first to know and preach His resurrection to others. It would not be sexism or misogynism that would prevent Him from calling women to pastoral ministry and making this clear in biblical writings.

If we do not have clear accounts of female pastoring in the Bible, then it is impossible to be sure of its lawfulness. If it is impossible to be sure, then, according to scripture itself, the wisest thing is not to defend it as if it were dogma, since we are sinning when we do something without certainty as to whether it is right or not. When the bible leaves only one part clear, whatever the reason is, in such a serious case, we had better follow what we are sure of: male ordination (just like we, Lutherans, do when it comes to predestination :))

Now, if women are to be ministers, denying them the office would be a sin. God would not deceive us about this by hiding the female office from the bible so that we, in an attempt to follow the Bible, would sin against women.
And finally, an important addendum: Women not having the right to the pastoral office does not mean that they are not important. God has given women extremely important roles as helpers to men (who really need help) as you could see in my previous article.

God bless you all.