Then, the fifth and final aspect of this shepherd leadership, the fifth and final aspect of this exousia that Witmer describes, is that followers are called to submit to the authority of their leaders. Let’s just be honest: in the United States of America, we often don’t like to refer to ourselves as submitting to anybody else’s authority, because we’re inherently independent people. But the truth is, if you have a leader and no one submits to their authority, there is no real leadership. And God