Further repudiations (Barmen Declaration sections 4, 5, 6, 7)

 We repudiate the false teaching that the church can 

and may, apart from this ministry, set up special 

leaders (Fuehrer) equipped with powers to rule.

(#5)

We repudiate the false teaching that the state can 

and should expand beyond its special responsibility 

to become the single and total order of human life, 

and thereby fulfill the commission of the church. . .

and that the church become itself an organ 

of the state.

(#6)

We repudiate the false teaching that the church, in human

self-esteem, can put the word and work of the Lord in the

service of some wishes, purposes, and plans or other,

chosen according to desire.