From “Wired to Lead: Being the Leader the Church Didn’t Think You Could Be” by Suzanne Nadell
If you feel as if you are on the fringes, or if you are frightened by the idea of opening up opportunities to everyone, maybe you are too far from the margins. Maybe you are living inside your comfy bubble of people who look like you, think like you, and don’t challenge your line of thinking. Christ calls us to live out all that he told us to do. Christ charged us to be ambassadors of the message that in Christ we are all one. We are all sinners. And Christ calls us all to the ministry of reconciliation.
I felt that call to the ministry of reconciliation through people I met at work, not church. It is through those relationships that I have learned of my role in preserving and strengthening these unconscious biases and of the privilege I had previously never consciously realized I had.