Topic: coercive power

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  29 March, 2026

  Series: How WE Bless

  What Real Power looks like

  Speaker: Matt Garvin

  Topic: biblical leadership, Christian discipleship, church leadership, church unity, coercive power, community and accountability, countercultural church, following Jesus, humility, Jesus as king, John 13, justice and peace, kingdom of God, kingdom values, loving enemies, Matthew 16, Matthew 18, Matthew 20, Matthew 5, myth of redemptive violence, Palm Sunday, power and influence, redemptive love, renewing the mind, Romans 12, Romans 13, sacrifice, servant leadership, sin and human nature, Solzhenitsyn quote, spiritual formation, the way of the cross

  Book: Strength to Love - Martin Luther King Jr., The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Last week we spoke about how our expectations of church… read more