When I
served on city council, the city attorney and the city insurance carrier went
to great lengths to make sure elected officials did not speak on their own and expose
the city to a lawsuit. A couple of weeks ago a local city councilman went rogue
and publicly took a resident to task and now fellow citizens are now calling
for his resignation. I’m reminded of Moses who presumed himself to be the deliverer
of his Hebrew brothers and killed an Egyptian. “Moses thought that his own
people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not” (Acts
7:25). The response from his fellow Hebrews was, “Who made you ruler and judge
over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian” (Ex 2:14a
NIV)? Believers can easily fall into the same temptation when we feel that the title
of Christian allows us to speak for God.
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