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LU Band Mens Bible Study

C3 Small Groups

Charles Stanley
Accountability is a relationship between believers wherein one has invited the other to monitor the development of character in one or more areas

Chuck Swindoll
A willingness to explain your actions

Chuck Swindoll
Opening ones life to a few carefully selected, trusted, loyal confidants who speak the truth who have the right to examine, to question, to appraise, and to give counsel

Head Start
The number one dilemma facing Gods men today is isolation. When a guy is under pressure or his relationships are suffering or life has simply thrown him one too many curves, he tends to keep his suffering to himself.

Overcoming isolation then is not about getting and giving warm fuzzies or any occasional high-five.

It involves war for your spiritual well being It involves war for your spiritual effectiveness It involves war for your impact on those closest to you.

What Gods man needs to know is that isolation from other men is not just bad, it is deadly!

Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].
Lesson

1. Confess The Lord has called us to Stand with my palms


open Keep nothing back To lay them on the table James 5:16 Confess your sins to each other
a higher standard of living
He wants our thoughts set out on the table in front of our brothers also He wants us to live in the light He wants our thoughts to live in the light He calls us to share all our secret sins

2. Our Faults Men have a tendency to run When we choose to obey


and share our:
to the hills-all-alone Our slip ups Our false steps Our offenses Our sins
We dont want to deal with our emotions We are not good at facing our emotions Kenny Luck states, that we have been trained to treat our emotions like smelly gym socks that we stash in the back of a drawer, as far away as possible. The wrong way men live out their lives

Proverbs 27:6 Correct brothers in love . . . we become vulnerable to each other.

2. Our Faults The wrong way men live The wrong way men live
out their lives
We hide and mask anger Prov 28:13 We internalize pressure We bury losses We deny being wounded We withdrawal in the face of hard truth We perceive openness as weakness

out their lives


We push people away We ignore facts We deceive ourselves We close off We fear failure We deflect mistakes We hide struggles We change the subject

3. To One Another The full armor (Eph. 6:13 A fighting partner


Guards your back Someone to fight alongside

17)

Galatians 6:2 Carry one another's burdens

Nothing on the back need a fighting partner to guard your back Shield of faith
4 tall, 2 wide, covered with 6 layers of leather, made of wood, soaked in water. But a very unique is there was a lip on each side so shields could connect to each other.

3. To One Another No lone rangers


Ecclesiastes 4:10-12 Fighting Two are better than one

Two are better than one when it comes to walking (v.10)


If this applies to our physical falls, how much more does it apply to our spiritual walk Restore a brother Reach out to a brother Share the burden Be creative

Two are better than one when it comes to warmth (v.11) Two are better than one when it comes to watch care(v.12)


Accountability is not asking someone to be a cop for us. The key is to choose to be accountable; we choose this as a lifestyle for ourselves.

We choose to live
in community, in honesty, in real open relationships. 1 Peter 5:9 Brethren who are in the world (not of the world) Ephesians 4:25 speak truth to one another

An Accountability Partner is:

Someone you Trust Someone you let into your Life Someone you give the right to ask tough questions Someone you will be Honest and Open with Someone who wants you to become more like Christ

4. Pray For One Another Pray Col. 1:7


Col. 4:12
Heartfelt prayer Continued prayer Wrestling in prayer Laboring in prayer Pouring out to the heart of God Praying in faith

5. Prayers Of A Righteous Man


Righteous Innocent, holy, just

"Weak prayers come from weak people; strong prayers come from strong people. The energetic prayers of a righteous man are potent force in calling down the power of God for restoring weak, struggling believers to spiritual health." John MacArthur

I like to think of Elijah when I want to remember how to pray earnestly and strongly. Take a look at James 5:16-18

Who is Righteous?
Consider Abraham. His faith was credited to him as righteousness. Paul rights about this in Romans 4:21-25 When we have faith in the promises of God we are credited with righteousness. So we can all have pray the prayers of a righteous man and stand before God without guilt because Jesus bore it and buried it upon the cross.

6. That You May Be Healed and Restored

and heart] [to a spiritual tone of mind

Results of confession
Healing Restored to a spiritual tone of mind Restored to a spiritual tone of heart

They should help you become the man God created you to be

Galatians 6:1

7. Iron Sharpens Iron


I Samuel 13:19-21 The Israelites went to the Philistines to have their tools sharpened, because they had no blacksmith. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Proverbs 27:17

We cant go to unbelievers and expect to be sharpened. We have to be sharpened by our believing brothers.

Let me stress; that you need to get and stay accountable to a gracious and loving person (or group), bringing everything you do into the light with them. Pray with them and meet with them weekly if possible. Dont keep silent about your sins and failures-no matter what happens. Practicing active accountability will help you live in the light every day with Jesus and with your brother in Christ! The healing will begin.
-Lowell Seashore-

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