Caleb Baker’s Reviews > Authority: How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human Flourishing > Status Update

good authority, as set down in Scripture and as I've witnessed it, is seldom an advantage to those who possess it. It involves leading and making decisions, to be sure. Jesus led. But what the godly leader feels day to day are not all the advantages, but the burdens of responsibility, of culpability, of even bearing another's guilt. Those "under" good authority often possess most of the advantages.