The 9 Benefits of Spiritual Authority

The Protestant Reformation ushered in an era of renewed freedom from ecclesiastical control and abuse of spiritual authority.  But the Reformation also afforded the enemy of our souls the opportunity to plant subtle seeds of distrust and disdain for authority in the Church.  This has ultimately resulted in a splintering of what used to be one united Church into an entity with more than 30,000 separate denominations.  This teaching goes back to the basics of what the Bible says about spiritual authority in the Church and how that benefits you, and also borrows from the practices of the First Century Church.