Board Leadership3

I. Accountability:

A. Def:

a. an obligation/willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions

an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions

b. to be answerable 2 one’s self & others

Merriam-Webster, I. (2003). Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary. (Eleventh ed.). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc.

B. Biblical study

a. How are we all held accountable?

Ro 14:7-8

Romans 14:7–8 ESV

7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.

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Romans 14:12 ESV

12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

1. Lets all live 2day as if we will be in eternity 2morrow

i. because we r saved by Christ through faith, we r 2 lead a life of gratitude that we have been given eternal life

ii. & of obedience to the standards by which Christ lived.

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b. R leaders held to a different standard of accountability?

Hebrews 13:17 ESV

17 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

James 3:1 ESV

1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

1. As leaders sometimes we have a tendency to think we r exceptions to the rule

2. Or, we think we are held 2 a higher standard.

i. In truth, we are held to the same standard higher.

ii. We must b aware that w/our great influence comes great responsibility