yep It is important that he set a good example in his faithfulness to God's revealed will. This faithfulness entails the recognition and submission to the structures of authority set forth in Scripture: God, ordained office bearers within Christ's Church, government, employers, and parents. All these God-appointed authorities are to be obeyed "as unto the Lord". We must not circumvent their authority by our modern "autonomous individualism" thinking. And, let's never forget that all the individual congregations (churches... the TRUE churches) are part of THE Church... PART, an indispensable part of the one true Church. One of the most beautiful and illustrious passages of this truth is found here:

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Hebrews 12:22-24 (ASV) "but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel."
It's an awesome thing to understand what it means to belong to the Church of the Lord Christ. grin

In His grace,

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