The problem with accepting the labels given by the world is that you don’t get to explain the extent of your own subscription to it.

This is why believers stand in one identity (Christ) and we can subscribe to ideologies and thoughts, but just not allow them become another identity, the moment it does, you’ll find yourself compromising on where to stand or how to answer in different situations. We’ve seen it happen constantly all through history. People being Christian and black, Christian and woman, Christian and feminist, Christian and influencer etc.

I know Christian and woman might be shocking, but hey! It happens, I’ve seen women stand so hard in their womanhood that they start to misinterpret doctrine to suit only women and speak up only when women are involved.

It’s important to just choose one place and stand there well.

The idea of feminism is equal right for women with the monopoly of choice, this is heavily affiliated with justice. God is the God of justice and one of the reasons God punished several kings of Isreal and the people themselves is because there was too much injustice in their midst.

We also often think that Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed for sexual immorality alone, but Ezekiel tells us that they were destroyed for injustice to the poor, needy and helpless, amongst other sins we don’t think too highly of.

The founding idea for feminism is one everyone should subscribe to, but because the world labelled it outside of justice, the world also gets to determine the extents of it, hence why you see a lot of imbalances with the ideas and opinions around feminism today. Extremes will always enter ideologies defined by man because man is just too volatile.

For the Christian, we insist on standing in Christ and nothing else because the extents and jurisdictions of our identity are clearly defined in the bible, we still see extremes in the world with Christianity today but at least we can call it out when we see it contrary to the One standard (Christ Himself). With feminism, we don’t have this luxury because there is no one standard. Everyone determines their metrics.

For this reason alone, I personally don’t subscribe to the label of feminist, but I stand for justice and I will speak up for it anywhere, anytime and for anyone.

I think Christians should be same. We must have one identity and stand there, everything else should take root from that identity.

When we go further into the different extremes of feminism, we begin to see the issues around gender roles, gender privileges, etc, creating all kinds of unhealthy rivalries between the two genders God created to dwell in unity.

A Christian woman comes to Christ and allows all prior ideas be formed by her new identity, which is Christ. This means taking on the description of the human in Christ from study of the word.

All this who will go to office, who will cook, who will clean etc are very much secondary to the position a woman stands in, whether as a feminist or a woman in Christ.

I can tell you for free that the latter of the two is the best place to stand.

A lot of battles we fight each other in society today, and in our generation particularly is clear evidence of deep rooted identity crises mixed with flesh, but we don’t even realise it.

Every ideology you subscribe to offers you convictions, there is none that will offer you the justice and freedom we all clamour for like the Christianity we see in the bible.

Just take a stand and stand well.