Listen now | Religious leaders love to talk about "God given" authority, but does God really give men authority? The truth is, authority is the direct outcome of responsibility. No one is meant to have authority over something that they do not also take responsibility for, which is also called accountability. You are accountable for the things you try and take authority over and you are accountable for how you exercise that authority. There is a fine line between having authority over and controlling. What happens all too often in American churches, is that men try to take authority over things that they aren’t taking - or even