Accountability
Hey everyone, So in effort to back up what Trea mentioned tonight about accountability I wanted to share some quotes from Dr. Lawless' book Mentor . The book focuses more on the one on one mentoring/discipleship relationships that we hope to have in our churches today, but I think the same principles can be applied to our small group. First, "In mentoring relationships [in our case deep relationships with another in small group] confession is essential - people need to be utterly honest. Spiritual full disclouser brings our sin out of the Enemy's darkness into God's light where we can deal with it through repentance and forgiveness." "[Leaders and fellow believers] who grant grace to people who have failed aren't ignoring or negating the consequences of sin. Instead, they are modeling God's love to a fallen yet repentant people. Good [leadership and relationships] create an atmosphere for honest confession because the [person] knows that admittin