9274	Forums / Main Forum / Is Accountability Good	on: April 02, 2006, 02:47:48 PM
Quote Most humans, that would include Christians,  have blind spots. They can't see or accept their own errors or faults that others see so well. Being accountable to someone else can help us deal with personal issues that we have placed on the back burner of our conscientiousness. It all about human interaction and fellowship...helping each other as we go down the road. It takes just as much faith to interact to our fellow man as it does with God. We have to believe that it is good to trust other people who God has seen fit to sprinkle so many upon the earth. Thor Ive thought about this issue a lot and meditated on some of these things you are talking about. First there is a view that control issues that come from these character flaws, that are produced in us by sin, are issues that when identified can be overcome in us and that being through accountability partners. Granted there are blind-spots in all of us and this does tend to translate into anti social- behavior which is just areas of control problems. But i have never seen a person balanced so well that these areas of control do not pop up often. And in fact these areas where these problems exist in all of us are areas that demand more than just identifying them and being controlled by someone else to over come them. There is not one leader in the history of the church that i have read that does not exhibit strengths and weaknesses in their writings and in the bios i have read. It is impossible to get rid of the chaff. Control is not just dealt with in the realization that God is sovereign and has everything in control so we do not need to be obsessed with these areas of control. To reason that realizing that we are not in control by thinking that God is in control will only make us followers, and having no expectations for change. We have the word and the Spirit, then we have other people, yet if anyone who is  married will see that control issues are never over come. They are managed. The truth is that as we grow in Christ by these means the control we have will be overcome by the supernatural control in the sense that we are in control of our will but the desires will more an more be eternal. The control of the Holy Spirit in this growth sense will give way from our control to a reality of experiencing His control over a long period of time. That is what overcomes these blind spots. Its super-naturalism to the core!