Month: August 2011

Alan Taylor on Authority & the Absalom spirit

Notes by Anthony for Grow Groups based on Alan Taylor’s Evening talk : Authority God has given us an impossible task – and authority to do it. Eph 2:10 Nobody has ever grown in God without living under authority – which is the way to have authority. Pray for our nation and its young people especially with regard to disorder on the streets. There are things God has put inside you that won’t be unlocked unless you learn to live under authority Literally the word authority means ‘that which settles a matter.’ These days we google things to settle matters, it’s become an authority! What’s the final authority for Christians? Also the word means – the word of the Author God is the Author- do we give him authority? In what ways might we demonstrate that? God draws us to himself as a loving Father, into the story he has written for you. Authority = being under the Author. One Bible character who lived contrary to being under authority = Absalom. Find where he appears in the Bible. (Leaders help […]