Rather, God asks us all, men and women, to use our power to enable others to use theirs legitimately. God asks us to use the power of servanthood exemplified by Jesus Christ. Yet church structures still reflect and support a hierarchical order that places men above women and children. One could not ask for a paragraph that serves as a better testimony to muddleheadedness. Secondly, men do not have power over women and children.
Husbands have authority over their wives, and both have authority over their children.
Thirdly, this paragraph very clearly reveals a basic principle of ecclesiastical egalitarians. In the name of equality, authority is challenged and denied. Fourthly, having rejected God's authority, ipso facto, God's designated authorities on earth are subject to disdain. Of course not. It is this rejection of authority which allows them fearlessly to reject all Scripture texts which contain any suggestion of hierarchy.