Re: Should Members Obey or Submit to Church Leaders?
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Originally Posted by MacDuff
Peter’s teaching in 1Pet 5:1-7 has always been sufficient for me to disbelieve in the idea of an authoritative human leadership related to believers. Even when the subject of human authority came up on the Catholic forums, and of course it came up frequently in the form of the question “Who decides?”, I would just quote that verse and leave it at that. They always danced all around what Peter said without specifically dealing with it.
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I agree. Peter's counsel to the elders is a saving word. With authoritative human leadership you get the chance of abuse ("lording it over the saints"), but Peter's word terminates that possibility.
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