## Accountability - J-160203 --- - This was originally a Journal entry dated 2016.02.03 ------ We had a chance to spend some time with {[[Name_Key#^nk-47|M & F]]} last night. At one point, he asked if there were any hard sayings that we heard in the training that we wanted him to address. I didn’t feel comfortable asking him about the [[Accountability|accountability]] piece with the whole team there so I waited until we were getting ready to leave. (BTW, as soon as he asked the question, I started asking God for the right timing. Shortly after I started praying, the rest of the team took the conversation other places. So, I figured this wasn’t the right time.) As we were walking out of the restaurant, I got a chance to ask {[[Name_Key#^nk-49|M)]]} about my concerns with accountability. He seemed to get it right away. He even suggested the accountability time was really a celebration of all that God had done through us. I told him we did just that at our last church meeting. According to Webster’s and Wikipedia, accountability is about an overlord ensuring an underling does what is expected. At the training yesterday, someone (I think it was {[[Name_Key#^nk-50|M]]}) said, “you expect what you inspect”. That is a good concept in the military, where there is a well defined and expected rank structure. We were commanded to [[Obey|obey]] our leaders without question. However, in Jesus’ [[Kingdom]] we usually understand that He has a very flat organization that is all about Him. There is no hierarchy. We are to obey Him directly. So, when we do the accountability thing, we put ourselves between the [[Disciple|disciple]] and Jesus and make it about us. Instead, we should be training the disciple to be accountable to [[Jesus]] and Him alone. [[777]] - Thank you for these insights last night and this morning! They went a long way toward clearing up my concerns. ======== Last night, {[[Name_Key#^nk-49|M)]]} told a story about rice farming in India and Nepal. He said that the farmer would throw his seed anywhere. Then, when the plant was several inches tall, the farmer would uproot it, gather several into a bundle and then replant them together. I think the point of his story was to address the individualism so prevalent in our culture. However, I saw it as a piece of the answer to the soils parable ([[Mark_04|Mark 4.1-20]]). What does God / us do with people in the second soil? I still don’t fully understand all of it, but I think it could be a piece. [[777]] - Thank you Lord!! --- #### Outbound Links - Topics - [[TOPICS/Journal]]