A Word of Caution in Choosing your Labels

Day 25: The Lens of People of the Resurrection

 

 

Are Christians Being Persecuted in America is the topic of a blog of one self-proclaimed Liberal Feminist Christian.This precedes her post about Christian Privilege. Both posts are thought provoking and would make great discussion topics. I do not subscribe to, nor endorse these thoughts but if you want to check it out here it is:  . . . Actually, you can google it if you'd like but I don't think I'll share the sight here, I read a few other posts that I REALLY don't agree with.

 

Learning how to be People of the Resurrection is challenging. When looking through the lens of the resurrection it makes me question myself and others more and have to admit frequently that I DON'T KNOW. I'm not brave enough to write about some pretty controversial and public topics out there, but I do want to write about the irony in claiming to be a Liberal Feminist Christian.

 

Depending on how one might define Liberal and Feminist, I'm sure that I was, might still be and probably could be either of these again. I worry about carrying either of these labels with me however because with these labels comes a pursuit to live up to them. I'm probably more liberal that my dearest, sweetest friends (with one dear sweet exception). However, I will add that I'm more conservative today than I ever thought I'd be and continue to more closely align with the values of other self-identifying Conservatives.

 

I'm sure that feminist could have described me with all clarity not that long ago. This was back a few years ago when, interestingly enough, not a whole lot was going right for me while using this defining phrase. Today, on the other hand, I think I appreciate and value both women and men more greatly. I cherish the differences the Creator selected for us. Equality is not the word I would use to define the relationship that I strive for between genders.

 

My point is this, if I define myself and strive to measure all things by anything other than God's Child, a Person of the Resurrection, a forgiven sinner-girl, than I am sure to get confused, lost and lured by Satan. A wise man once said all things must be equally yolked with The Word. If the weaker oxen (my life and witness) is not yolked with strongest of oxen (The Word) then what will pull me back path onto the right path when I become stubborn and go astray? That weaker oxen is always wanting to check out the heifer in the next field. 

 

So I will leave my liberal, feminist friends and acquaintances to define themselves by these things; and I will claim only to be a Christian. A Christian who is constantly seeking him and working to yolk my life with His Word.