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“Tit 2:15 Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.”
Does Titus have authority here over the congregation? Paul says don’t let anyone disregard him. Maybe you should consider if you are disregarding your church leaders?”

Mark 374,

I agree that leaders do not hold authority over a congregation. However, yes, they should indeed rebuke, correct, admonish, encourage, exhort the believers in, with, and through The Word of God. There is a difference. Yes, they exercise an authority which is given by the Holy Spirit. It is an authority to train and direct the people of God to honor God. They do this as servants of the Lord. There authority is not to or for themselves, but to and for the Lord as the Lord directs.