Sentences with phrase «spiritual authority structures»

To answer your question, I believe that spiritual authority structures are not necessarily bad.

Are you implying that spiritual authority structures are bad, or that they have the potential for incredible abuse?

Not exact matches

No way to know the exact route for sure, but it is noteworthy that a lot of that exact Prophet - Priest - King teaching comes right from the theology of Derek Prince — one of the four originators of the heretical Shepherding Movement — but amping up his hyper - authority structure for fathers in the family and applying it to the elders in the spiritual family.

But simply put, if your leadership structure is such that it requires continual committee meetings that lead to business meetings where many people get to cast votes on the direction and decisions of the church and where Roberts Rules of Order trumps biblical spiritual authority, multi-site will most likely end in a train wreck!

We can pay our full respect to the tested structures of authority in our common life, but all conventional human authorities easily assume a finality beyond their competence, and this is nowhere more dangerously true than in the high forms of spiritual authority which belong to religion and its institutions.