"The desire we so often hear expressed today for... 'authoritative personalities' springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive. There is nothing that so sharply contradicts such a desire as the New Testament itself in its description of a biship (1 Tim 3:1ff).... The Church does not need brilliant personalities but faithful servants of Jesus and the brethren....
"Pastoral authority can be attained only by the servant of Jesus who seeks no power of his own, who himself is a brother among brothers submitted to the authority of the Word." (Pages 108-109).
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