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The meaning of submission is not seen in people kissing the ring but trusting the fathering leader. The meaning of the fathering leader is not to show his intimidating spiritual authority before all with a microphone but to trust the inheritors who are submitting to do what he does so they can eventually do greater.

The greatest enemy of truth is exaggeration. The use of metaphors that reveal spiritual reality to explain our existential substitutes for spiritual reality produces superstition–that is, a false “how things really work in the spirit” point of view. That is, we build religion with tradition and superstition using a Bible and Bible words to proof text our error.

You have a Providential pathway that prophetically reveals God’s hand and direction in your mundane life and history, indicating His responses to your experiences.

Motivational gifts point to the person studying up on himself when all grace capacities point to the individual believer within the kingdom culture and the building, body, and bride of Christ.

We know that Todd’s behavior is a pattern of behavior that continued for fifteen years, during which time he was in ministry and leading ministries. We know that the people victimized by his leadership were close to him, vulnerable to him because of his anointing, and trusting because he used his role and position to take advantage of them.

The fathering hearts are turned toward returning sons because the sons do not return with ultimatums in their hearts.

In other words, entering the Roaring Twenties, we should reset our value system to a Biblical point of view about the value of overseers with expertise and experience, both of which are gained by extended exposure to the graphe, rhema, and Logos. We should regain our appreciation and appraisal of the scholar of the written Word.

We must see “fathers” and “inheritors” in the context of God’s Oikos, a lineage of inheritance through which the purposes of God become available in greater opportunity for fullness in each succeeding generation.

The famous phrase from Paul’s discussion of kingdom leadership, “equipping the saints,” ain’t about equipping. At least, not so much. The idea that local church pastors teach people to do stuff so they aren’t doing it all – well, that is so far removed from what Paul discusses that we need to start all over to think about Ephesians 4.

To the specific point of the urban legend about the original church had no building or budgets, led by one apostle, distributed in house churches is not the model for the New Era Reformation.