Become a Safe Friend
Biblical accountability requires more than finding trustworthy people to help us follow Jesus; it requires becoming the kind of gracious, truthful, and dependable friend who can help others do the same…
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What Biblical Accountability Actually Looks Like
Biblical accountability requires relationships where we are honest enough to be known and gracious enough to be safe. Through specific confession, prayer, intentional questions, and consistent conversations, we can help one another bring struggles into the light and pursue Christ more faithfully.…
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Choose Your Friends to Choose Your Future
The people closest to you will inevitably influence the person you are becoming, so choose relationships that encourage you to pursue Christ more faithfully. Love everyone and minister to anyone, but make sure those with the greatest influence in your life are helping you move in the direction God has called you to go.…
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Why You Can’t Grow Alone
No Christian is strong enough to follow Jesus alone because sin is deceptive, and isolation only makes that deception stronger. God has graciously given us other believers to encourage, challenge, and help us persevere so that we continue growing in Christ together.…
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Creating Careful Accountability
As followers of Jesus, we are called to help one another follow Him ever more so closely. But how exactly are we supposed to do that? It starts by being intentional with one another regarding our personal commitments to Jesus. It's time to go the second mile in creating careful accountability.…
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How to Confront Compassionately
Jesus calls us not to be harshly judgmental but to be intentionally confrontational. We must be concerned enough about the Body of Christ to address sin when it is present among us.…
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The Just Way to Be Judgmental
One of Jesus’ most misinterpreted phrases was his teaching on judging one another. Jesus didn’t expect us to refrain from accountability but abstain from hypocrisy.…
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Strive for Personal Holiness
When times are difficult, it makes it easier for us to justify sin. As the pressures of 2020 rise, do you find it easy to excuse yourself for wayward behavior? Now is not the time to give in to sin, but to push towards obedience.…
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Commit to Intentional Checkups
For anyone who has committed to a local church but never felt connected, I want to help you. The reason some never experience deep relationships is because interaction is never pursued outside the weekly gathering. You can’t connect through 1 hour a week. It’s time to go the 2nd mile in committing to intentional checkups.…
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Why Successful Ministry Leaders Are Rarely Challenged
Due to past successes, supporters often give leaders a free pass for any current suspicious direction. Allowing past successes to overlook present mistakes will lead to future calamities. …
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How to Have an Accountability Partner
It is important to highlight the need for a personal relationship with Jesus. But somewhere along the way, we have made our faith…
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Accountability Questions
As of late, I have talked with a lot of people who have a whole lot of intention to follow Jesus, but they…
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