Posts Tagged ‘accountablitiy’
Church: Accountability & Leadership
I talked about leaders being accountable for the people they disciple before just as the Mike Guglielmucci story was breaking and so as time has past and the leaders have been given there time to speak it’s become clear that what is happening with Mike is the same thing that continues to happen in Christendom, leaders are not being accountable for what their disciples say and do.
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Church: Community of Believers
Community has gotten a bad wrap in the last 30 years. It was all the rave in the hippie movement, YWAM picked it up and has been using it dogmatically since. Then Jonestown happened and community has never really been looked at the same.
On a side note, PBS did a fantastic documentary on Jonestown which I would encourage anyone to watch!
Our society doesn’t really allow for community to be done in the Jonestown sense, or (unless you’re a deliberate mission organization) in the YWAM sense either. But still, there is something that is supposed to be communal about the church. I’m not saying that we should all sell our properties and move at a discrete location together but I think that the church is on the other end of the fence, we’re too private.
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