Thanks to all for an awesome weekend! This is a list of accountability questions I’ve used in the past to help provide structure to accountability meetings. If you don’t use these exact questions, I encourage your to use something to keep your accountability meetings on track and purposeful.
Questions:
1) Have you spent daily time in the scriptures and in prayer?
2) Have you had any flirtatious or lustful attitudes, tempting thoughts or exposed yourself to any explicit materials which would not glorify God?
3) Are you consistently giving financially to the Lord's work?
4) Have you spent quality relationship time with your wife?
5) Have you done your 100% best at work?
6) Have you told any half truths or outright lies putting yourself in a better light to those around you?
7) Have you shared the Gospel or expressed your faith with an unbeliever?
8) Have you taken care of your body through daily physically exercise and proper eating/sleeping habits?
9) Have you allowed any person or circumstance to rob you of your joy?
10) Have you lied to us on any of your answers today?
Collin Poage
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Collin, Thank you for those questions. Simple and to the point. I have not had an accountability partner since my first go around in college 20+ yrs ago. I can see how those ?s would keep things on track.
What an incredible weekend. Thanks to all who gave up time away from family, friends, jobs and chores. Thanks for sharing pretty personal matters to men you hardly know.
Boy there are times I've felt alone and unable to figure things out, trapped and not sure what to do. I've made some real mistakes when I was in those situations. After this weekend I see the absolute need for close Christian men in my life - more than just Sunday School friends or a guy you only talk to about sports, movies and work stuff. Someone's gotta be there for me to bounce some difficult questions off of and some one to ask me the difficult questions that can hold me accountable to pursue the best God has to offer - to not settle for okay.
I know every weekend can't be an experience like last weekend. We are not all junior high kids hanging out for a fun summer together - ha. But somehow I have to integrate some of those things into my too-busy life. My wife & kids will have to scoot aside a little bit. That will be okay.
Praise be to God on high, who in His infinite mercy and grace loves us, guides and pursues us to a closer relationship with Him.
Philip
I was reading part of Psalm 9 this morning. I read right through some verses looking for nuggets. "I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart; I will tell of all Thy wonders. I will be glad and exult in Thee; I will sing praise to Thy name O Most High...." After several verses I realized I was not paying attention so I started over. Right away in verse one was my challenge - "I will tell of all Thy wonders". I stopped. David Banks' words from Saturday night came back to me. He said he wanted to renew the zeal he used to have for sharing the gospel and to have a heart for the lost. I have never been "comfortable" sharing my faith - doing the whole 4 Spiritual Laws thing or E.E. I freeze up and start stuttering badly. It would be so easy for the words of that verse to mean I tell all my Christian friends how great God is. And that is probably how I've always read it. Well this weekend hearing Josiah talk and pray and hearing about Ryan's plans for Wycliffe and then David's desire....this verse took on a new meaning. A challenge to me. So I guess this means I need to clean up my speech at work so I don't sound like such a hypocrite. Man, this is getting real. Thanks you guys for your prayer and support. Philip
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