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Question 2
The speaker argues there is a “middle road” that “produces life…good works, and revival,” summarized as “submission to Christ, his kingdom, and his body…the church,” including “submission to one another”; what would that kind of submission practically require that many modern Christians instinctively resist?
Another way to ask: The speaker says the healthy “middle road” is submitting to Christ and to the church, even to each other. What would that kind of submission require that many Christians today naturally push back against?
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Direct Answer
Based on the speaker’s teaching, this “middle road” requires yielding personal control and preferences to Christ’s rule and to the life of the church, including real mutual submission. Many modern Christians resist being accountable and re-ordering life so the church and worship receive “first and foremost allegiance.”
- He says there is “a middle road that cuts through both of these sides” and it “produces life, produces righteousness, produces holiness, good works, and revival.”
- He defines it as “a life of submission to Christ, his kingdom, and his body, the church.”
- He adds that this “in a big way involves submission to one another.”
- He contrasts this with both extremes: chasing “emotional response and experience” or clinging to “outward conformity.”
- He emphasizes priority: the early believers structured life so “the kingdom or the church and the worship of God received their first and foremost allegiance.”