Condescend: Its True Meaning & Christian Revolution #shorts

Lesson Transcript

We, in the 21st century, view the word "condescend" in a bad way, which has come to mean. It means patronizing, feeling prideful when you have to do stuff with people you feel are beneath you. But that word "condescend" was also found in this verse as well. But in that time period, I think it's actually a very powerful meaning. It means that we voluntarily lowered ourselves to associate with others. But it doesn't stop there. And that was one of the things that was so revolutionary about Christianity.

You had the rich and poor eating together or going to the same church. That would have been unheard of. You had Jews and Gentiles, masters with their slaves or servants. And they said that was a true revolution that Christianity did, that it brought everybody equal.