Authority and Submission

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Originally Posted by Paul Miletus

How much more you can submit to the church authority if you cannot even submit to the governing authorities or vice versa? The authority in the church as well as in any government comes from God alone as directly revealed in Rom 13:1.

Yes, but, brother Paul, you are assuming the part that you should prove.

You seem to believe that secular rule and "church authority" are somehow related.

I would have to testify to you that this is exactly the error in the Local Church that so many here are really concerned about.

God's authority which exists within the Body is entirely of a different kind from that found in secular governments and organizations, as also is the submission thereto.

Brothers Nee and Lee unfortunately didn't really see this problem for some reason and apparently neither do you. But this is really an essential element of recovery that has been lost since Rome first took charge in erroneously asserting the existence of a "universal church" modeled after and even joined to the secular government of Rome.

I hope you will consider this point more fully.