{"id":1523,"date":"2022-03-25T09:10:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:10:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:10:36","slug":"how-does-authority-work-in-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/how-does-authority-work-in-a-church\/","title":{"rendered":"How does authority work in a church?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Discussion question for April 1, 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Churches are not exempt from misuse or abuse of authority, with examples in recent history.  What is God&#8217;s intention with a chain of command?  How should a congregant submit to authority?  What should a church body do when a conflict arises between their leader&#8217;s authority and their understanding of God&#8217;s ways?  What are the greatest threats in a Christian organization that could lead to abuse of authority?  How should people protect against such abuses?  How do you explain egregious acts in the church when confronted about it by a person who has taken offense at the sin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion question for April 1, 2022. Churches are not exempt from misuse or abuse of authority, with examples in recent history. What is God&#8217;s intention with a chain of command? How should a congregant submit to authority? What should a church body do when a conflict arises between their leader&#8217;s authority and their understanding of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-for-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastersmindministry.org\/focus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}