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What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘authority’? Who has authority? How do we get it? Do we want it? Sometimes the older you get the less you want, other than over your own life. The way our world is set up there are levels of authority. The way our church is set up there are levels of authority. The way our lives are set up there is authority. We are surrounded by authority. In some respect we have a choice whether we want to recognize it or not. Often there is a price to pay if we don’t recognize authority. We first learn about authority in our homes growing up. Our parents or guardians are the first authority figures that we meet. Parents set healthy expectations to help children learn how to set healthy boundary lines for their own lives. As we are growing up we desire autonomy over our lives and once we have it we find out that it takes work to maintain it.           Throughout history we have seen healthy uses of authority and unhealthy. We have seen this in the church and in homes. Unhealthy auth