I’m sitting in the Grand Hyatt in Denver, Colorado talking with a room full of mostly white people about privalege and power. Who has it, who doesn’t, what is static and what is fluid. What could be changed and what can’t be changed. I think about my good friends who moved to Louisiana. Who repeatedly gave up their power and position of being straight, white, married, and very educated, to live and work amongst those who often had no power. What an example.
I also think about the churches filled with people of power who don’t get any idea about giving up their place of position or power, who would not be willing to even think about what I am talking about. It must be intentional. It is not a happenchance idea. The world will stay exactly the way it is, if we don’t make some intentional changes. That means we must make intentional efforts to bring and empower people who have no privalege with us as we move. It means that we can not passivly sit by and wait for people to be empowered.
Shall we be agents of change, or shall be remain part of the problem with empowering people of typically no privalege to move themselves to positions of power? Isn’t that what Jesus was all about? Could it be that people who are the marginalized are really those who are without privalege as well? What if there were a way to change that? Would you be willing to step outside of your privalege even if only for a moment in time?
I also think about the churches filled with people of power who don’t get any idea about giving up their place of position or power, who would not be willing to even think about what I am talking about. It must be intentional. It is not a happenchance idea. The world will stay exactly the way it is, if we don’t make some intentional changes. That means we must make intentional efforts to bring and empower people who have no privalege with us as we move. It means that we can not passivly sit by and wait for people to be empowered.
Shall we be agents of change, or shall be remain part of the problem with empowering people of typically no privalege to move themselves to positions of power? Isn’t that what Jesus was all about? Could it be that people who are the marginalized are really those who are without privalege as well? What if there were a way to change that? Would you be willing to step outside of your privalege even if only for a moment in time?
