Do we need a new way to establish authority?

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What’s your question? for Jan. 19,2011

When men lose respect for God’s pattern, they usually rationalize their position by ignoring the old method and turning to a new one. Some contend that we do not need a Biblical precept, example or a necessary inference for our practice, so they quit teaching how to establish authority. I asked a friend, who is a member of a church that wears the name of Christ, how long it has been since he heard a lesson on how to establish Bible authority. He said he couldn’t remember having heard one! When people are doing unscriptural things, they change the way they teach. Churches that begin trying to draw people with food and recreation are not “speaking as the oracles of God” (1 Pet. 4:11), and feel no obligation to prove their practice by God’s word.