A RC once said to me that everyone should follow the Pope because "someone must be in charge" and my 12 year old son piped in "shouldn't that be Jesus". All I could say to my son was God Bless You!
LOVE IT.
INDEED! AN ANOINTED ANSWER.
I hope you took him out for ice cream.
"Protestantism is not anarchy. It is a family with Jesus Christ as the head of that family."
Rom. 8:14, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
A.W. Tozer puts it this way,
"Private prayer should be practiced by every Christian. Long periods of Bible meditation will purify our gaze and direct it; church attendance will enlarge our outlook and increase our love for others. Service and work and activity; all are good and should be engaged in by every Christian. But at the bottom of all these things, giving meaning to them, will be the inward habit of beholding God. A new set of eyes (so to speak) will develop within us enabling us to be looking at God while our outward eyes are seeing the scenes of this passing world.
Someone may fear that we are magnifying private religion out of all proportion, that the "us" of the New Testament is being displaced by a selfish "L" Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole Church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life."
Hi W.
From the mouth of babes...
And I say, of course, He's the Head of His Church! Ubi Christus, ibi ecclesia (Hermann Sasse).
He's King, not CEO.
He says "Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for to such belongeth the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:14), not go ask a saint and remember don't take my name in vain like that again. do you hear?
And so He has. 8~)
Your son has my respect for knowing exactly what to say. And I know who taught him--thank you.