“As we have many members in one body,
but all the members do not have the same function,
so we, being many, are one body in Christ.”
ROMANS
12:4,5
There
is tremendous authority in the Ekklesia, but it bears repeating: the
greater the authority, the greater the responsibility. There is no such
thing as authority in the Kingdom of God without responsibility. If God
gives you authority to represent Him, there is a reason. Authority is
not given to us so we can order people around and make them serve us.
Authority is given so we may carry out
our own responsibility. There is a task, a function, a mission, an
assignment, given to every member of the Ekklesia. Since all the members
share in the same authority, all the members share in the same
responsibility – though not all share in the same function.
Just
as different parts of the body have an equal responsibility to perform
their
specific function, so the many members of the Body of Christ have equal
responsibility to function in the time, place, and manner which is given
to them by the authority of the Head.
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