March 23, 2018

Speaking Beyond Your Authority


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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