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

Chapter 11 | There are essentially two kinds of authority based on how it’s implemented: authority of command, and authority of counsel.

Chapter 10 | “Good authority is not self-protective, but bears the costs of leadership.”

Chapter Nine | “Without the power of discipline, authority is toothless, even substance-less. Take away someone’s power of discipline and you effectively take away their authority.”

Chapter 8 | "Bad authority despises instruction. Good authority seeks it. It's teachable and therefore wise. Even the young, incarnate Jesus sought wisdom and grew in it (Luke 2:52)."

Chapter 7 | Good authority doesn’t steal life, but creates it.

Chapter 6 | “Loyalty to a good leader is indeed a good thing, but good loyalty is loyalty to his leadership under God and anyone else under whom God has placed him, like fellow elder or a congregation.”

Chapter Five | “Submission to the people whom God has placed over us is the ordinary pathway to life, growth, authority, and even likeness to the God-man, Jesus Christ. Yet our submission is never finally owed to other people. It’s exclusively and uniquely owed to God. We owe it to others only when God says we do. This means our submission should never be absolute.”

Chapter 3 | “Authority-in-redemption rides into the crooked and broken downtown east of Eden. Its sights are set on rescuing the weak, its heart filled with compassion for the condemned. Yet it knows it will have to sacrifice itself in the effort.”

Chapter 2 | “Human authority that moves out from under God is always stolen.”

Read Chapter 1 | “Good authority grows and empowers those who are under it.”