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Yeah, but I wonder if Mark thinks about it more like this: He has authority, but it is not Christlike to insist upon or take authority. After all, Christ has authority, certainly, but He lets us choose whether or not to follow Him. Even so, it must be up to Mark’s wife to choose to follow Mark. Logically, choosing not to force authority upon someone is not the same as not having authority.

This is awesome. I bet he does look at it the way you have described.

Back to those questions on the other thread, Mark, can you or can you not command? What can you do? Christ can command, insist, take, but what can you do? What real authority do you have?

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