The Goodground blogger asks this question, “How would your church be different if every member felt responsible to help every other member develop in character?”
Character –“ who you are when no one’s looking” is one description. Jesus tells us .in the Beatitudes in Matthew five, that these are the attitudes to have for being blessed. Attitudes are the thinking that forms our feelings and behavior. Good attitudes form good character which produces right living. Being always precedes doing.
Unfortunately, character is in short supply in our current culture. Public figures have been exposed profusely in the last twenty years from Jimmy Swaggart to, more recently, Tiger Woods. From Enron to Wall street and even the Congress and White House businessmen have fallen from their lofty pedestals. We don’t know who to trust or model.
The Word of God is full of examples of men with either good or bad character and the consequent results. Saul and David, Eli and Samuel, Judas or Peter all serve as examples of opposite character.
How might we as a church be different if we had people to hold us accountable. David had Samuel to keep him accountable and it produced brokenness and repentance in David. The prophets kept kings accountable with some progress. Jesus kept the disciples accountable producing eleven who made thousands of other disciples who “turned the world upside down.”
Who do we have to keep us accountable? If we had someone would it make a difference? Would we grow more steadily? Would we be healed or delivered because we confessed our sins to our brother?
Would we realize the blessings of God more frequently or fully?
How do you think it would change our lives, our church?
Lord – help us to be willing to allow someone to hold us accountable. Show us someone to trust. Help us to develop your character.
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