TL

Mark, the following is a synopsis of what I’m seeing in your posts. If you don’t feel that is accurate, please let me know where I’m off. Since we are dealing with text only communication, sometimes an incorrect picture filters through our lenses.

As my eyes skimmed through the newer posts this morning I noticed something about Mark’s comments.
1. Mark doesn’t believe in mutuality, only submission/obedience and authority (IOW no concept of freely given humbly arranging oneself under another in honoring support of others – unless they are authority figures)
2. Mark views mutuality as ‘same as’ and seems unable or unwilling to treat another in the same value system without having to play ‘copy cat’.
3. Mark questions leadership and ministry by the ministrations of the Holy Spirit. This probably leaves male only leadership within a corporate model in which men give/delegate other men into privileged roles of authority.
4. Mark leans toward the concept that manifestations of the Holy Spirit are all an aspect of warped ‘pentacostalism’ due to a book by Mike Raiter.

This is a rather bleak picture of Christianity with no soul. The Holy Spirit is the moving element and the heart of our lives as Christians. It is the Holy Spirit that teaches us humility and inspires us to give ourselves for other’s benefit. When the HS is diminished in a group of people, corporate structures become necessary as forms of government. And then just like the world, the strong will rule over the weaker. Some people have become so comfortable in this model that they really don’t want or cannot conceive of another way of doing life.