Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. The instructor title is the third forbidden status designation: the community has one instructor, the Christ. The three prohibitions — rabbi, father, instructor — address the three ways that religious authority is typically claimed and used to create hierarchical dependence. The community of brothers and sisters who have one teacher, one Father, and one instructor has no room for the title-seeking that the Pharisees exemplify.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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