TEXT: Watch lest you go soft with error and become lenient and pleasant with it, and thereby lose your authority over it. Mrs. Eddy once declared that some of her students were as soft as mush! She also said, "When you rebuke sin, you cannot be nice to the sinner...The moment you are pleasant with or in error, that moment you can do nothing with it. There must be authority." (Watch #478, 500 WP)
Work Items:
From your own experience, how might you have been stripped of your authority?
Are you ever been able to think/act with authority? Do you know what it is like?
What is the difference between human will and the authority we are talking about here?
Why were the listeners of Jesus observing that "he spake with authority, and not as the scribes."?
Plan to participate in 30 minute watch after our discussion.