war against rank in the church. Jesus clearly does not like church structures that allow domineering, authoritarian, or, in other words, secular organizational relations. Structures of authority in the church are probably unavoidable. But every effort to confront these structures with Jesus’ anti-authoritarian teaching is effort well spent, if done with civility and courtesy (the sometimes neglected facets of a thoroughgoing Christian pacifism). The coming great church will probably have bishops,
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