The Role of Authority

Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile explains the value of authority---civil, parental, pastoral, and marital. He defines authority as "the right and ability to control, command, or determine the proper responses of others." Excerpt:

"God laces all of life with some form of authority. It's clear, then, that a wholesale rejection of God-ordained authority leads inexorably to anarchy, instability, unrestrained desires, evil, and the judgment of God."