My church doesn't believe in women teaching men; so would it be a sin if.....?

Question

I wrote articles and pamphlets and used a male pen name. The male members of my church would not even read it if it is known that it is written by a woman. But I feel like I have something to contribute and would like to write religious articles or tracts.
The reason I stay in this church is because I really do believe in most of what it teaches. No church is perfect but I think this church is sincere if misguided on this issue.
So, would it be a sin to use a male name or a name like Pat, Francis,Sandy or some other name that could be male or female? I would, of course, have to hide my gender.

Instead of leaving the church, I believe in working on change from within.

Answer 1

It is a shame that you can't take credit for your own work, but God sees what you do for Him.

When you read the Book of Acts, James and the other Apostles wrote to Gentile members of the church and informed them that they need not follow all the Jewish laws and customs. Instead they said that Gentiles should avoid sexual sin, not to eat blood, not to eat meat offered to idols and not to eat meat from animals that were strangled to death. Acts, Chapter 16.

The Book of Acts also clearly shows that some women were teaching others about the Gospel. Timothy's mother was the one who led him to Christ.

In the Book of Relevation Jesus seems to enfer that churches had more than one leader and some of these leaders were wome. Jesus chastizes one woman for teaching false doctrine, but He does not chastise her because she preached and taught others.

In the passage that Paul wrote he made it clear that the rules he was setting forth were his own thoughts about a specific church.

Peter in one of his epistles addresses a woman teacher and evangelist and praises her efforts on behalf of the Gospel.

I'm glad that you see the good in your Church. But the Bible states over and over again that God chooses who will speak for Him. One of the Judges He chose was Deborah -- a woman.

I feel it would be a sin if you didn't write. Where God leads us through His Holy Spirit we must follow.

May God Bless you and your ministry, in His name.

Ps, I don't believe writing under a psuedonym is lying. You can change your name to anything you want. I guess I am a liar too because all my work is published under a Pseudonym.

Answer 2

The church where I currently attend, used to be restricted to the "men only" way of thinking. Now; God has moved us along [spiritual maturity] into seeing that woman are being used by Him. Women are now, ordained into the ministry of Jesus Christ. It is a very sad thing to see people, bearing the name "Christian" , limiting God in this way. God used women throughout the Bible record, to accomplish some of the greatest things. Christianity has no room for expanded male egos !!! Further; as a male, I would love to tell you to "go for it" ... but then, the men in the congregation may learn something from you, which God has shown you ! (We can't have that ... LOL ) !!! Peace to you ... and its time for the church you attend to get on with it - we all, collectively, have a Gospel to proclaim to this world !!!

Answer 3

Depends if you believe in that church or not....If you believe what they say to be true, then you should abide by their rules... If not I'd recommend going to a church that supports your belief that women are equal and can contribute to the group as a whole. Writing notes under a guys name might work for awhile, but unless your minister or preist is really lazy he is going to figure out that nobody by that name exists.

Answer 4

Bunch of pansies i tell ya.. bloody fruitcakes. Doesn't believe in women teaching men.. pffft!

Ok seriously, knowledge is power. The church is being sexist. How can a church dictate, whether women can or cannot teach men? It's ridiculous i say.

Well it's not a sin, if god didn't say it is a sin for a woman to teach a man... but it is a sin to lie.

But technically, you're not lying... you're writting under a pseudonym...it's not a lie.

Answer 5

Is the magazine you are writing for for the same church you go to or is it interdenominational?

Writing is not the same thing as preaching or teaching face to face!

Does the magazine state it will accept articles by women writers?

You could use a gender neutral name but frankly if I was you I would change churches!

Oh just go write anyway!

I doubt the fossils in charge of your church read anything but the Bible and their own misinterpretations anyway!

Answer 6

Do YOU believe it is a sin to lie? If so then you need to work on changing your church's views in an open manner. If not then follow through with what you are planning.

Answer 7

stay as close to the truth as possible. simply put anonymous or use a title that best describes your writing...example: exhorter, prophet, word, Dr. Sharing, ect. you get the point. I agree this is not reason enough to leave your church when a good church these days are so hard to find

Answer 8

Bear with this extremely long conveyance I give to you here...


First, I quote you here: "But I feel like I have something to contribute and would like to write religious articles or tracts."

That is the most operative passage here.

Second: as to women teaching men: know that all is in the context, isn't it?

What mother would not teach her adult son; and what son would knowingly fly in the face of his mother's better advice? Sure women can teach men; they do it all the time. And men listen all the time. 'Has been this way for tens of thousands of years, regardless of what the pulpit bangers had to say.

This is both natural and spiritual that women and men should share insight and knowledge. Again, all is in the context, see?

Can a woman teach a man how to be a man, maybe not, because not even a man can teach a man how to be a man -- only Life has this capacity; so it is so with women in their learning curves as well.

We do know that some things only men or women respectively can share with each other. This is known and is understandable. Say, father to son, mother to daughter. Nothing fancy about that, is there?

You 'do' have something to contribute. So do it. But keep of neutrality in what you do.

A powerful spiritual law comes to bear here: the Law of Silence. While it is at once complex and simple, do not mistake what this law appears to imply: to abide this law requires that you hold your counsel when it is apt. As quickly Silence prompts speech when this is apt, when truths must be said.

If there does not exist a conduit through which these can be availed, then create one. Yet you cannot employ power, however, in order to avail this. Power is what they 'appear' to be practicing in your church.

There is no difference in what you are doing than is the use untold numbers of psueudo-names participants use on Yahoo Answers, the majority of which are cloaks of anonymity to convey points freely. You use your cloak, I use one, thousands, each, use theirs.

Why? 'Well, because there is a need to. Were it not allowed, YA would have waned and fallen of self-importance earlier, the very sort of behavior that gets societies "caught up."

People today need to allow what is in them to express outward without certain apprehensions or fears of persecutions.

’So -- Welcome to America.

Do not bother that yours is some sort of spiritual infraction: it is not. You are growing closer to Spirit when you allow yourself a medium of expression 'economically.'

You demonstrate no violation here. This is a measure of bravery on your part, though such may not appear so.

Tell me, my friend, is the use of a sobriquet as a male any more an infraction to some man's or woman's or consensual reality's dogma and point of view than those of the misprints and misinterpretation scribed and found in many a great book of the world? I tell you, no.

One prompts change and who accords change and who has and allows it already.

Witness the numbers of revisions in many a literary works down through the millennia -- secular or spiritual. Consider how practices and traditions of the Church have changed over the course of hundreds of years. What of the sins purported to have been committed a thousand years ago, which today are of no account? Nature changes, Life changes, Man changes. God allows for this, though the underlying principles are and have been constant, and did not depend on man's awareness of them in the first place.

Say this method you use is a "sin", then what?

Know this -- the most sacred ground is the ground on which you now stand on and that you presently are living in the middle of: yourself.

There is much you can learn by using your ploy. This is not a mark of cowardice but merely a creative step. You are demonstrating acumen; that's all.

So long as you do not endeavor to be vicious, to destroy another's esteem, to disjoint or corrupt the consciousness of any given group or nation or universe, to assault the freedoms of another -- whose consciousness I might add should be the right to possess -- then go right ahead, experiment, proceed. We have that freedom; and to obstruct 'that' of another would be a "sin" indeed.

Fascinating thing that you might observe is this. You will see that what you are doing is ultimately for you more than anyone else -- for that church may not or does not want your clarity or honesty, but 'you' do, for 'your' edification.

If they are not where you reside in consciousness, little if anything may or can you do to change this. If you should determine to do so and not relent, then, now -- now -- 'you' have stepped well across a line that must not be breached under any circumstance. This has nothing to do with self-preservation or self-defense -- 'that' is another 'context'

Now, observe -- much you can salvage by using this ploy. It is no less a valid manner in which to learn and expand yourself and peer into the ways of human nature (not solely genders) than any other, which can be later used to evidence good aims.

Where the church gives to you lemons, simply make lemonade.

Glean what you will and can from your church. When you are ready, you will resolve to move deeper, deeper within, and discover that what imports most of all to you, or to anyone, does not found itself upon faith in a book or acceptance by others but rather in the steely qualities and broadest of heart and mind within you.

And 'that,' great one, imports and abides true spirituality.

Thus do not encumber yourself with maudlin feelings of guilt: guilt is a tax you have no need to pay. God has nothing to do with guilt. Only men and women do. Do what you do and own it -- do not equivocate.

Glean the principles -- the blueprints -- in what you are doing.

For now it is the hubbub about gender issues. There will come other issues later -- there will perhaps always be the issues, see? -- so learn the principles involved with what you do such that the untold numbers of applications that come later can be derived in the most adept manner.

Go and do as you do, but harm no one. Above all, do not violate yourself...

Answer 9

lots of women have written under male names in the past. It wasn't until early in the last century that we became people under the law. Other male names are Beverly, Leslie

good luck

Answer 10

Leave the church.
Write under a female name.
Write stuff that entertains everyone.
Here's a good idea - write under the name KJ Rawling (NB NOT JK) and make a fortune with 60% going to ME.