Nov 07, 2008
Do we need spiritual authority?
Darin, Aimee and Kim talk about the question as to whether or not we need someone to have spiritual authority over us. After having had this theme held over our heads in the institution for so long, it’s hard to know what is legitimate and what is man made for the purpose of control. This is a great conversation that sheds light on a subject that has been tangled so much over the years.
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This podcast has been right on time as I struggle to put thoughts into words for a sister that's caught up in the religious form of 'submit to your husband'.(at any cost- I might add) She is totally w/o confidence in her own abilities. On the bright side she is beginning to believe that she, too, has value and worth and is hungry for the freedom that I believe she is starting to embrace for herself. I have experienced this false form of submission in my own life and almost completely lost any vision other than those being foisted on me by others. I was ripe for it though because I wanted that 'power' for myself. Oh! What a tangled web we can weave... I so appreciated hearing the husband/wife side of the 'spiritual authority' issue. I believe it, like racism, is a scourge on our society.
Someone from another forum just asked me a question about what it was like to live in a Jesus People commune in the late 60s. I realized that it was just like what you talked about in this podcast. Those who lived there didn't expect to be told what to do and think but we did respect the wisdom of those who by faith had stood in grace a little longer than the rest of us.
Excellent. I have often said that we individually choose those to whom we give the spiritual authority to speak into our lives. And those persons may or may not ever know that they have been given that authority.