Tag: Church Talk

What is Obedience?

I think the simplest way we can say it is that it is doing something that somebody us tells us to do. When I looked a bit deeper into what a good Biblical definition of “obedience” might be, I found three Greek words from which the word “obey” or “obedience” has been translated from. Phobos, Hupakouo, and Hupotasso. These words mean, respectively, fear, to listen, and to subordinate oneself. Thinking about these three different words brought a lot of questions to mind. What are our motivations to be obedient, to whom should we be obedient, what is the purpose of obedience, what happens when we are disobedient?