 The Church was able to protect itself by preventing anyone other than the Pope from calling a council to discuss spiritual affairs.To this, Luther states that anyone should have the ability to call a council if they find a problem or issue of the spiritual sphere.Further, Luther delegates the "temporal authorities" to be best suited for calling a council as they are "fellow-Christians, fellow-priests, sharing one spirit and one power in all things, and [thus] they should exercise the office that they received from God."