authority

The following is a four-part series based primarily on the work of Jonathan Leeman and his book Discipline in the Church: How does the church protect the name of Jesus?(New Life). [Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4] We live in an anti-authoritarian culture that rebels against the thought of authority and discipline, we […]

After explaining how a husband should exercise his authority, William Gouge lists the different ways a man loses his authority. Here it refers to functional authority. The husband still has official authority as a head of the family, but people don’t listen to him and, in extreme cases, there may be a divorce in which