"Romans 13 says obey the government. End of discussion." You've heard it from the pulpit. But when a law tells your church not to gather, or an officer can detain you for what you might do, something in you asks: is that really what Paul meant?
This is not a call to rebellion. Pastor Steve Cioccolanti, a pastor of twenty years, takes a pandemic-era emergency bill in his own Australian state as a case study and puts "unconditional submission" on the witness stand. He reads Romans 13 in full, then asks the question its preachers rarely answer: would they tell a wife to submit unconditionally to an abusive husband?
You'll discover:
Who the Bible commands you to honor, and in what order
The believers who defied rulers and won God's approval
Spiritual authority versus political authority in Hebrews 13
How the Christian founders of America read Romans 13
"There is no unconditional submission to anybody on earth except to God."
Whether you lead a church or sit in one, this settles it. Watch it and know where your submission ends and your conscience begins.
