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We are living in a time where a political and social movement is taking place around the issue of privilege.
Certain voices are making it acutely aware of how some people in our society have privilege and how others do not. There is also a call for those who are privileged to give up their privilege for the sake of those who aren't. This call in many ways is delivered in the form of an entitled demand that if this is not done then society will not experience peace.
In this passage we see Jesus dealing with the issue of privilege as well and answers the question of how Christians should approach the whole issue of privilege.
It begins with a discussion about the payment of a tax.
read morePolitical Correctness Does It Help or Hurt?
It is no secret that we live in an age of political correctness. Yet paradoxically, the more politically correct our culture becomes the more approval seeking occurs and the more we as a culture, project an incongruence in our daily lives as well as live under the tyranny of legalism.
What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us....Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete. (1 John 1: 3 & 4 NET)
The following is an attempt to articulate some of my thoughts on how two aspects of the Christian view of Redemption, otherwise known as Justification and Sanctification, intersect with the process of the application of therapeutic intervention and the development of psychological health.
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