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Originally Posted by NeitherFirstnorLast
Such authoritative leadership exerts great leverage in a church member's life, generating intense dependency on the leader's approval in both personal matters (home life, vocation and the like) and church affairs. To differ with a leader's counsel puts one in a "soulish" predicament, adrift from the spiritual flow of church life; submission provides security and approval.
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NFNL, this is the concept I was raised up with. Maybe by the ninties, this was no longer so. It certainly was not my experience in the locality I was in. The authority rested in one, but at the same time the authority was by no means micromanaging the decision making of the saints in the locality