Submission is a distasteful word in our culture, and the correct understanding of authority is long lost. Nowadays everyone believes that their opinion, their desire, and their "truth" is the final authority in their lives and that to submit to anyone or anything else is offensive. Today we don't think we need to submit to authority, "Citizens do not have the same respect for government’s authority, students do not have the same respect for the teacher’s authority, children do not have the same respect for parent’s authority; employees do not have the same respect for their employer’s authority; people do not have the same respect for the police’s authority; and Christians no longer have the same respect for church authority". It is in 1 Corinithians where the Spirit was teaching me what authority means, and our response in voluntary subm...
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