[MarMema]

As always everything comes back to the question of authority.

For you and those in your church, authority does seem to be needed.

[Tantumergo]

"For you and those in your church, authority does seem to be needed."

Of course it is. It is a distinguishing mark of the doctrine of Jesus Christ:

Matt 7,28 "And it came to pass when Jesus had fully ended these words, the people were in admiration at his doctrine. 29 For he was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes and Pharisees."