His disciples were so perplexed. If I don't wash your feet, you can have no part with Me because I came to serve, not to be served. Oh, well then, not only my feet, but my hands and my head and everything. See what authority is. Then the individual becomes the supreme authority for everything.
Selfishness runs riot and destruction is rampant.
This is not God's way as a basis for society, not the basis for His Church, for His kingdom. Authority is what today's Scripture is all about. Oh, it bothers us at times. So many things. Authority is the basis of everything that we are as a civilized people and also as a Church.