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Originally Posted by MacDuff
Ohio
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.
MacDuff
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I agree. Human leaders in the church of God should not be "authoritative," rather they should be servants, just as both the Lord and His disciples have instructed us. The leadership in the Recovery willfully neglected this point, therefore they should pray-read these verses every day at their International Training of Elders and Responsible Ones (ITERO)
Here in these verses, Peter does not negate the need for elders and shepherds, rather he instructs them with the Great Shepherd in view, and this has been my point from the beginning of this thread. There must be elders, proper in every sense, and the rest of the saints should be "subject" to them. It is the same as in a family. Just because some parents are cruelly abusive, we don't annul the institution of the family. We still must exhort children to honor their parents, and to obey them.