Comments on: Nobody Likes “Accountability” http://churchwhisperer.com/2009/12/22/nobody-likes-accountability/ leadership and relationships in ministry Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:27:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike http://churchwhisperer.com/2009/12/22/nobody-likes-accountability/#comment-1214 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:54:40 +0000 http://churchwhisperer.wordpress.com/?p=551#comment-1214 Maybe offering a different angle on accountability may help. Most people shut down when you say “accountability” because they feel like they already know everything on the subject.

]]> By: purplehymnal http://churchwhisperer.com/2009/12/22/nobody-likes-accountability/#comment-1188 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:56:43 +0000 http://churchwhisperer.wordpress.com/?p=551#comment-1188 Hi, just stumbled across your blog via Twitter. This is a good post for me, as several ex-members of my former group are currently pursuing accountability for the group, since the denominational leadership is still a hierarchy, and still unaccountable for the 15% “tithe” of donations from over 900 congregations, that it still receives.

We have plans for a combined online/snail-mail petition (with hopefully at least one of the major congregations on-board), and to that end, I have been collecting bible verses that I may want to work in, to some or all of the demands for accountability that will be included in it. The two major ones are for my former group to be accredited by ECFA, and to dismiss the current unelected Pastor-General-in-perpetuity, and his unelected, appointed “board”, to be replaced with an elected board of directors. Here are the Bible verses I’ve come up with so far:

2 Cor 8:20 – 21 (recommended by ECFA)
1 Cor 4:2
Heb 13:5 (for the leaders)
Prov 28:27
1 John 2:15
Prov 19:17
Matt 23:37-40
Prov 14:31
Matt 6:24
Phill 4:11-12
Luke 12: 15 (for the members)
Eccl 5:10 (for the leaders)
1 John 3:17
James 1:27
1 Tim. 6:17-19
James 2:14 – 20
Isa. 58:6

Hope that’s enough.

]]> By: Ramona http://churchwhisperer.com/2009/12/22/nobody-likes-accountability/#comment-1156 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:24:50 +0000 http://churchwhisperer.wordpress.com/?p=551#comment-1156 I sent out this accountability message and my retired pastor replied; Use the Word to describe what you want to talk about. Only the Apostate church changes what is written there.
From the Old Testament: Judges 6:13
From the New Testament: Romans 14:10-12
“So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.”

BTW I love your articles, I wish I could have had you come to my church before I had to leave. I did approach the pastor about a mediator, he declined. I was so tempted to contact you so many times! I miss my church, I miss my pastor, but I couldn’t stay the way things were. May God bless you triplefold for your work of reconciliation! Ramona

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