>>Christ is the Word made Flesh, and the church is the Body of Christ. It is Christ who established His Church and gave her the authority to teach via the Holy Spirit. “Whoever hears you, hears Me.â€
So do I. I do not believe that it has any special authority that you do not possess yourself through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
I wonder then why St. Paul taught that we are not all teachers, not all administrators, etc. His whole doctrine on the Body of Christ, repeated and elaborated in several of his Epistles, emphasizes that although we all share in the one Spirit, we do not all have the same roles.
We are all members of the one Body, but we are-— following Paul’s analogy -— different cells, tissues,organs, limbs, senses, systems.
Do we all do the same things? Are we all noses? All toeses? All mouths? (heh)
Many the gifts, many the works. One in the Lord of all.