TL
2009-12-07
I wrote: ”n the end it’s just all about power and the manipulations one must go through to get it and keep it.” … and
“And men who lust for power and authority continue to dishonor women and deal treacherously with them.”
Sorry that you misunderstood me. I was not speaking about comps only or all men, although it may have sounded like it. I was loosely addressing the ills of the world in general and the fight for power and authority. Of course comp men do not say they are lusting for authority and power. Yet, when you say that only men can have authority and power in the church and the home, you do sound terribly close to the rest of the world in wanting to retain something desirable for yourselves only, denying it to other’s.
In Christ authority is not about the right to decide things for others. In Christ, authority is about giving real life to others. Worldly authority is empty and lifeless, serving self and giving oneself honor, even and especially when there is an image of grandness.