Wearing a lens as we interact with scripture is a fact of our humanness. We’ve seen despicable uses of this as many have justified horrific acts by reading the scripture through a lens of supremacy of one race/ethnic group over another.
The reality of the Jesus we invite others to join us in following is that he came at scripture as a poor oppressed minority who was on the underside of the ruling power. How often do we read scripture through this lens? Two excellent examples of engaging scripture from this lens are Reading the Bible from the Margins and Jesus and Disinherited.
From my position and those of students I work with in America (a world superpower) and studying at Universities (highly privileged locale) it is hard to put on the lens that Jesus lived. How would it impact our work and the church if we began to do this?