For some reason the word “privilege” has fallen on hard times. It’s a beautiful word of Latin origin dating back over 700 years and meaning: “something regarded as a special honor.” In literature usage it hit its zenith in 1833 and has experienced gradual decline until about 25 years ago when activist Peggy McIntosh wrote a paper and coupled our word with “white” and “male” and the word began a rapid slide where it is now used with other nouns to evoke negative emotions toward a group that now has unwarranted and undeserved opportunities based solely on being a part of that group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are children of God. John says, “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.” (1 John 3:1) This adoption, position and relationship is a PRIVILEGE<\/strong>, as the gospel of John says, “But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the right (the privilege) to become children of God” (John 1:12) What a special honor<\/strong> it is to be a child of God! What are we doing with this privilege?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some reason the word “privilege” has fallen on hard times. It’s a beautiful word of Latin origin dating back over 700 years and meaning: “something regarded as a special honor.” In literature usage it hit its zenith in 1833 and has experienced gradual decline until about 25 years ago when activist Peggy McIntosh wrote… Continue reading Privilege<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","category-marks-messages","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tannerchurchofchrist.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}