What Does it Mean to Submit to Authority?

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In their final conversation about authority, Rachael Clinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender return to complex waters to discuss mutual submission, what good authority looks like, and what it means for us to submit to those in authority.

Oftentimes words like submission are difficult to hear because they have been misused by those in positions of authority. So, how do we reclaim similar words and phrases, especially those found in scripture, that have been so often used to create chaos?

Resources:

Listen to the first two episodes in this series on Authority

Remembering the context of Dan and Rachael’s conversation, read Romans 13

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cent.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:28.2	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Thank you for joining us.
0:29.7	We have been in the midst of a series on authority,
0:32.9	talking about our suspicion of authority,
0:36.0	what happens when we distrust authority, what happens
0:39.1	when authority is wicked, how do we discern, you know, who is authorized by Jesus? And today,
0:45.7	we're going to tackle the really fun topic of what does it mean to submit to authority. And
0:50.9	I just want to say, these are really hard conversations to have. And I was talking with
0:56.3	Dan in preparation just about how even some of the language like submission authority to be under,
1:02.5	this is a language that just is triggering. It's embodied. It's in storied. And it's very loaded.
1:10.2	So we want to again just acknowledge we are in complex waters and yet waters we feel compelled to at least engage because in many ways this is a function of our world and we want to grow in a capacity to imagine what it is to live more
1:30.8	faithfully as people and as people who need help discerning what is good authority and
1:38.2	therefore then what does it mean to submit so nan i'm going to let you take it from here.
1:45.6	I'm so grateful, Rachel, that you have named the agonies that many of our listeners
1:51.8	have suffered.
1:52.8	It is the issue of trauma, through betrayal, feeling foolish, having trusted perhaps
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