Alison

“Christ has ALL the authority” is definitely barking up the right tree. You are very right, gengwall, in saying that because of this, Christ cannot be compared to any man. However, given our desire to claim authority over each other, this is often the last thing we want to hear (and the first thing we willingly forget). Until we get it through our cotton-pickin’ heads that Christ has the final and ultimate authority, we will be locked in power struggles that allow spiritual abuse to happen. It’s a really crummy thing, that we spend so much time debating roles that we lose reality: that around us is a lost and dying world that doesn’t give a rat’s hindquarters who has the authority! Once we lose that reality, we start losing opportunities to set all the power struggles aside and really make a difference–opportunities for which we are all accountable for using.