The Evangel Dean School - Developing Wisdom

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p lenaRY 3 Fit to Represent

Understanding the Principle of Authority and Submission Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

I. Myname.com: the age of extreme autonomy

A. We live in an age of independence and alienation.

1. The social climate of today: we demand that we design our lives ourselves.

2. The loss of prophetic voice: this attitude is often mirrored in ministry.

3. Run-amok and run-away Protestantism is creating fuel for heresy and schism.

Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

~ Erik H. Erikson

B. Jesus’s model of leadership as representation

1. Modeled on his relationship to the Father , Luke 10.16 – The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me. 2. Analogous to the Father’s sending of him into the world, John 20.21 – Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” 3. Extreme fidelity to the Father’s intention, Matt. 26.39 – And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”