One thing that is important in becoming and staying a student of influence is having and keeping people around you that will keep you accountable and on task for influencing your lost friends, and ultimately the world, for Christ. This chapter is not one to look over too quickly. The principle of Accountability is key if you want to be a master influencer.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
+ Post about Week 7 of Max Q
+ Memorize the assigned Scripture passages:
Matthew 28:19-20; Romans 3:23; Romans 5:8; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9
IMPORTANT DATES:
ChicaGO SEMP Overnighter at NMC
Friday, June 10 - 5:30 pm through Saturday, June 11 - 1 pm
Completely have read "The Barbarian Way" by Erwin McManus
* Remember, this is NOT OPTIONAL. If you signed up for this trip you were agreeing to the outlined dates and expectations. Everyone is expected to be at the Overnighter as this is a crucial component in our trip experience together!!
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"It's not an option it is a must!" ~I better get on with this then and know who I am accountable to and who is accountable for me.
ReplyDelete"A relationship with God is personal..but it's not private." ~We are to make sure we are well with our relationship with God and be accoutable with each other in this. So, I need to ask the question, "How are you and God?" more often.
*And we need to love our friends by telling them what they need to work on rather then just leave them alone. We need to not worry about our friendship with them but you need to worry about our friends and where they will be going when they die and make an impact on them if going in the wrong direction, but be accountable to our other Christian friends too.
Being accountable is a huge thing in helping your Christian friends, but you have to have permission to ask those questions. I thankfully have some accountable friends and i thank them for being accountable and helping me when i need them to help.
ReplyDeleteMatthew Prochno
Basically we need to be accountable to people who do not have our weaknesses and they need to be of the same gender to avoid complications. Also we can have more than one person we are accountable to. If we are not accountable we will be vulnerable to attacks of the enemy.
ReplyDeleteDan.Mohler
this week had just made me thankful for the friends I have in my life. I have people I can go to for accountability and anything else I need and I thank God for it!
ReplyDeleteDana Keller
I think accountability is so important for Christians. We know that Jesus is always with us and knows everything about us, but we also know that He is not physically here to keep us in line. If we aren't careful we will use that fact to protect ourselves from discipline and restrict our growth in Christ. We need people who will love us enough to help us be accountable even when it hurts. It gives us someone else we can trust and depend on and it will help us grow in our walk. This doesn't take anything away from our personal relationships with Christ. He know us and loves us intimately and we should feel extremely close to Him.
ReplyDeleteThis week, particularly day five, made me realize how important it is to have someone I trust to hold me accountable and call me out!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I have close friends who will tell me how it is and what I need to work on, yet they encourage me at the same time!
Emily Hoffman
When I was reading the weekend portion for Max Q, I underlined this sentence: "A true friend is someone who accepts you just as you are, but who loves you too much to leave you that way." This gave me a totally new perspective on my relationships and accountability with my friends. Accountability isn't just about making a confession, but it's about helping the other person change their ways of sin. We all need to be more committed to the friend instead of the friendship.
ReplyDeleteHolly Prawat
I realized that relationships are incredibly important to have. Not just relationships but deep friendships. A kind of friendship towhere there is accountability to the extreems. And it does not only have to be with people your age, but with also an older person as well.
ReplyDeleteJessica Tuttle
This week I realized how amazing it is that I am able to have great friends in my life who I can trust and who help keep me accountable. God has blessed me by putting these people in my life and I thank him with all of my heart.
ReplyDeleteLindsey Allen
"A relationship with God is personal..but it's not private." I totally agree with this i cannot say my relationship is no one else's business because than no one can keep me accountable.
ReplyDeletebailey dahlgren
What got me this week was how in 1 corithians 12:12-27 paul talks about the body of Christ and how to function as the body of Christ we must work together Even if that means at times we're a little uncomfortable.
ReplyDelete-Chandler Walters
this week i was really challenged with actually telling my accountability partner information that i am embarrassed about. i need to trust her completly and not be ashamed by my mistakes.
ReplyDeletecarlie salinas
I really liked this week, and the whole entire accountability thing! The quotes that really hit hard on me this week is "a relationship with god is personal... but not private" and "would athletes practice as hard if the coach just handed them the ball and sent them out to practice without him"!! These quotes made me think, and realize that we need accountability partners who we know will not give up on us, and will keep pushing us!
ReplyDeleteTaylor Hiester
Day two hit me hard. I have always wanted to have accountability, but there have always been plenty of stuff going on with me that I don't want anyone to know about. Sometimes I feel like I need to talk to someone about it, but I end up only talking about generic stuff and not getting nowhere near specific enough. So yeah I could definitely use prayers for being honest with my struggles.
ReplyDeleteMarcus Poland
just today my world was completely shook up i broke down and i was having a hard time getting back up and i was soooooo glad that i had friends to turn to for comfort they helped me get back up and i thank God for them
ReplyDeletekylee stutzman
The reading about the armor of God on day 4 set in motion the rube goldberg machine that resides in my head and makes people wonder... Long story related to a cassette tape entitled: Where's God When I'm Scared? But it reminded me of this verse they sing to the kids that are scared of the thunder storm: 'So do not fear for I am with you. Do not be afraid, for I am your GOD. I will strengthen you, strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.' Isaiah 41:10 And it goes along with what came a bit later about accountability partners having your back (literally!) and God always has your back and sometimes, I just need to be reminded of this over...and over.... and over.
ReplyDeletekelly miller :D
i used to have people that i would be accountablilty partners with but every time we slowly and slowly start falling away from it. not on purpose but just lack of communication, determination, being busy, etc. i would really like to find a partner that will be there for a long time
ReplyDeleteAccountability is key if we want to become students or people of influence.
ReplyDeleteSome things that stood out to me this week were:
In an effective accountability relationship, you should be able to share anything--your biggest temptations, your deepest hurts, your greatest frustrations. This requires total honesty.
A relationship with God is personal...but it's not private.
Most of us do better when we know someone is checking up on us...would athletes practice as hard if the couach just handed them the ball and sent them out to practice without him?
One of my favorite quotes is...A true friend is someone who accepts you just as you are, but who loves you too much to leave you that way.
Those are some of my takeaways from this week.
Chris
this part stuck out to me at the very beginning when it says that the principal of accountability is not an option it is a must and if you want to be a student of influence than you need to do this.
ReplyDelete~austin Conrad
Accountability-giving an individual or group permission to question you in one or more aspects of your life and committing yourself to total honestly with that individual or group.
ReplyDeleteThis helped me so much to understand what accountability is. But i realized its so easy to say you are going to keep someone accountable and don't do it. I struggle with asking my friends how things like tawg are doing and vice versa. I realize that it is a "two way street"now. and this week makes me want to try harder!!!
Danielle Hudson
Finding someone to trust and keep you accountable can be really tough. Its really hard if you have trust issues I guess. But Im glad I have at least one person thats there for me to be accountable for me. I really like learning what accountability was all about.
ReplyDelete-Logan Gomez
Something that stuck to me this week was the quote "A realtionship with God is personal.. but it's not private" Sometimes I think some of my problems I can just deal with by myself and God and that nobody else needs to know, but I realize i can never fully get over the situations im in unless somebody else holds me accountable. If nobody else no about it, it just makes it easier to fail. Another things that stuck out to me this week we need to be more committed to our friends than our friendships, to hold them accountable because in the long run their relationship with God is more important than our friendship.
ReplyDeleteJaylin Miller
accountability is something i believe every human needs in there life not just christians. in my life i have had many best friends we would start out being there for each other and then i would feel like i wouldnt have them there anymore. but really it was me sperating myself from them. i do have my friends tho that i know will always be there for me no matter what and i would like to say thanks to them. in this trip i hope to find someone who feels like that can count on me through whatever they are going through.
ReplyDelete-monica lozano
Aloha from Maui, Hawaii!
ReplyDeleteSorry this post is a little late. We all are experiencing 6 hours of jet lag (it's 8:24 AM right now where as it's 2:24PM in Indiana)
This week was a bit of a struggle to get through, as I've had several accountability partners and still struggle with the same things I did then. But God spoke to me in a whole new way and gave me new revelation in Max Q for how to make accountability work. For me the main point is from Day 1 that is in bold lettering that reads "ACCOUNTABILITY MEANS GIVING AN INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP PERMISSION TO QUESTION YOU IN ONE OR MORE ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE AND COMMITTING YOURSELF TO TOTAL HONESTY WITH THAT INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP."
I like the way that Max Q put that statement a lot and it definitely gave me a whole new outlook on how I NEED to set up accountability in my life.
Justin Krakowski
After reading through other people's posts, I have realized that the same sort of things hit me that hit others. I was also struck by the sentence, "A true friend is someone who accepts you just as you are, but who loves you too much to leave you that way." We need to be surrounding ourselves with people who will challenge us. It's easy to surround ourselves with people who are like minded, enjoy doing the same things and therefore falling into the same sin traps that we do. It's hard to find true friends that are willing to call us out on sin issues we have in our lives. Also, I was really struck by the fact that our back is completely unguarded when we put on the armor of God. We need to have friends who are willing to watch our backs as we take on the enemy ahead.
ReplyDeleteCortney Stace
(Sorry this is late. The internet was down for a few days.)
Accountability is so important. I have had different accountability people over the years. It has really helped me to grow. We can be an encouragement to each other. We all have sins, temptations and weaknesses in our lives. It is so much easier to work through these issues with others walking beside me. But I also feel it is important to build a relationship with these people. I dont want just anybody telling me when I am messing up. It is easier to take when it is someone who really knows me and we have built an honest relationship with each other.
ReplyDeleteThis part really hit home for me. I have not had that many accountability people in my life. I like to think that I can do it on my own and that I do not need help from nobody. But I know that is not true and that I need some people in my life to hold me accountable.
ReplyDeleteIght guys here is what I pulled from this...
ReplyDeleteIf you are going to breathe the air and walk this earth as a Christ Follower and you want to make it through, you need an accountability partner or two or three or four or ten... seriously guys that is of huge importance! You can and will stumble and fall if you don't have an accountability partner, you might with one too, but they are there to help you through too and to help keep you, well, accountable!
I have a few friends to keep me accountable and I talk with them at least once a week, or daily, just to make sure that I am doing what I had them keep me accountable for... So that's what I've got for this week! :)
for me,i have accountability partners, but i need to work on actually listening to them instead of just saying, yeah yeah okkkayyyyy and not following through.
ReplyDeletespencer dahlgren
Ya um i agree here with bob and think that i can do it all on my own when really i need someone there to help me.
ReplyDeleteAustin Sanders
"In an effective accountability relationship, you should be able to share anything--your biggest temptations, your deepest hurts, your greatest frustrations. You have to be real about who you are and what your going through. Accountability and dishonesty simply cannot coexist."
ReplyDeleteThis part on day one really hit me hard just because these past few years i have found out just how many true accountability partners i have of the same gender--none. That was actually my Christmas wish of this last year. That God would provide me with someone who i can tell all my secrets to and who will also hold me accountable on the things i struggle with. But so far that gift hasnt come. And im still waiting. Maybe i just need to pray harder.
P.s. sorry this is so late, i moved last week and didnt have internet until now.
-Haley Miller
This week made me realize that no matter how strong your relationship with Christ is you need to have accountability. You always need that person or group of people who can keep you out of trouble.
ReplyDeleteKaylin Pearson :)
What struck me this week was day 4, where it was about how we need all the armor of God... And it made me realize, not just some of the armor, but ALL
ReplyDeleteDaniel Clickovich
I knew this was going to be a good week from the intro. It paints this picture of a christian getting pulled over by nonbelievers. While the christian is just trying to reach out and pull people over the wall, or into salvation, the nonbelievers are tugging them to their side. The other side which is filled with sin and temptations. But on the opposing side is where all the friends are, pulling them back to God. Helping them succeed by not letting them fall in. The christian on the wall could not do it by itself. We need people helping us or it might not end well. We might just get pulled over.
ReplyDeleteThis really helped me. It put such a vivid image in my head. This is a very difficult thing for me because I have always been pulled over so quickly and then I would always regret the consequences. Now that I realize all I have to do is ask for help really makes it easier. I also really realized who my true accountability partners are. There is a thin line between friend and accountability and it helped me put into perspective who was on what side of the line.
Amy
This week made me realize how important it is to have someone I trust in my life, to help me improve spiritually. I have also been actually sitting down and reading through my MAX Q before I actually do it. This has greatly helped me understand it, and feel what God is trying to tell me.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Megan
this week i learnd that my accountability person is very good. she has helped me with a lot of things and has kept me on the right track. im so glad that i have one because without i do not know where i would be at today
ReplyDeleteshayna gravy
What spoke to me this week was on day 2 how it said we should rebuke christians who have fallen into sin unless they admit their sin and ask for forgiveness. This tells us that we need to hole eachother accountable for when we fall into sin.
ReplyDelete-Tanner
this week was really great for me, because i am realizing that i don't always love my lost friends unconditionally and i need to. i really liked the saying taht you don't fall in love you choose, and then you do what it takes to start loving! i really liked this week.
ReplyDeletetaylor hiester
This week made me realize what a big accountability we need to have. Yes, God has guidelines in the bible, telling us what we should and shouldn't do, but it's up to us to follow them, because God isn't here to keep us in line. We need to have greater accountability in ourselves to do what God would do.
ReplyDeleteMegan Reed