Friday, May 14, 2010

"When men who profess to be followers of Christ place themselves as governors over others, call upon these to adhere loyally and scrupulously to whatever directives they may give, even include the concept of loyalty to an organization in the questions asked persons at baptism, so that the baptism is done, not only in the "name" or "authority" of God and Christ, but in the "name" of the organization they head--when men do this they need to be faced with the question Paul posed [at 1 Corinthians 1:12-15]: Were you crucified for us? Have you paid the price of your own life blood and by it bought us so as to be entitled to such submission? If they cannot answer "Yes" to those questions--and they clearly cannot--then we cannot possibly accord them the virtually total submission they call for and still remain loyal to the one who did die for us. We cannot be the slave of two masters. [Matthew 6:24]" (italics in original)

--- Raymond Franz, In Search of Christian Freedom p.637

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