Authority: How Godly Rule Protects the Vulnerable, Strengthens Communities, and Promotes Human FlourishingIn every position of powerfrom executives and world leaders to church elders and parentslies the potential for life giving leadership or destructive corruption. Driven by sinful pride or opportunism, many people abuse their God given authority, harming the ones theyre called to lead and contributing to a skeptical attitude toward leadership. The answer to bad authority, however, is not no authority, but good authoritythe kind that, according to

sometimes messy lives—helping them see what true Christian faith really looks like

"No one who is really suffering is interested in trite answers or simple formulas

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have four grown children and live in North Carolina

and he always keeps his promises

during the so-called “semi-Pelagian” controversy Augustine demonstrated his pastoral sensitivity wherein he articulated a view of the will that did not absolve humans of their moral responsibility before God

Elyse Fitzpatrick holds an MA in biblical counseling

both in the secular world and among those in the church

one that should be studied and understood by all believers

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he is best known for his “Young Underground” and “Adventures Down Under” books

read every passage of Scripture through the lens of the cross of Christ