ACCOUNTABILITY IS IMPORTANT

ACCOUNTABILITY IS IMPORTANT

(Thursday, November 18, 2010)

Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the face of his friend.

Hebrews 10:21-25 … having a High Priest [Jesus] over the house of God, 22 let us draw near

with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies having been washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering (for He is faithful who promised), 24 and let us consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

  Something stirred Methodist memory to search history of John Wesley’s Holy Club (Mocking name given by fellow collegians at 1729 Oxford. http://www.ctlibrary.com/ch/1983/issue2/216.html )

  As part of their agreed upon accountability to one another, there were 22 questions they asked themselves every day over 200 years ago. Here’s the list as given to me by Pastor Donald McKnight over 40 years ago.

·         Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?

·         Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?

·         Do I confidentially pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?

·         Can I be trusted?

·         Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?

·         Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?

·         Did the Bible live in me today?

·         Do I give God’s Word time to speak to me every day?

·         Am I praying and enjoying it?

·         When did I last speak to someone about my faith?

·         Do I pray about the money I spend?

·         Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?

·         Do I disobey God in anything?

·         Do I insist on doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?

·         Am I defeated in any part of my life?

·         Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?

·         How do I invest my spare time?

·         Am I proud?

·         Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisee that despised the publican?

·         Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?

·         Do I grumble or complain constantly?

·         Is Christ real to me?

  Denominational stuff aside, what answerability club do we belong to this day?  EBB4