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Actually, there is. I'm teaching you that you're wrong. That's the first step. You know what the bible says about stubbornness, don't you?
Trust usually works better than policing. Because policing someone, or having an "accountability partner" just assumes that yep, you're a vile old sinner, and you would love nothing more than to grab that bong and get stoned as a rock. Trust, on the other hand, believes the BEST about a person (just like Paul described LOVE in the bible!) and will actually inspire people to get BETTER.
You can force me to stop using drugs, but you can't change me from an addict to a free man. You can modify my behaviour, but not my identity. So it doesn't really fix the problem, it only makes it look better. Having an "accountability partner" is one of THE most unbiblical concepts ever made up, and I guarantee you it has never, ever, set anyone free from any sin. It cant. It's useless, it turns people into whitewashed graves.
God does the exact OPPISITE of an accountability partner. He doesn't say "I saw what you did there," but "hey, look what JESUS did HERE!" - and that's the only message that can save addicts like I used to be. I could take the courses and grades and learn to live with my addiction, I could go to church and learn how to please the christians. Or I could go to God who could actually make me a NEW person. Unlike men, God already saw me, and treated me, like a GOOD and FREE person. And thus I BECAME a good and free person. You see, just like when He created the world, there may be emptiness and void, but when God speaks, stuff happens. When He says something is so, it IS so. Go to people and they will call you an addict and try to fix you. Go to God and He will create a whole new person.
All that said, it's obviously good to have a person you can share your wins and losses with, someone to confess to when you need it. But you're not accountable to any man.
Have you been hurt by an accountability partner or something? "One of THE most unbiblical concepts ever made up"? That's quite an hyperbole. I have an accountability partner but I can't say I recognise any of the attributes you seems to be giving the concept. It's just a relationship where you can help each other with any problems you might have.Trust usually works better than policing. Because policing someone, or having an "accountability partner" just assumes that yep, you're a vile old sinner, and you would love nothing more than to grab that bong and get stoned as a rock. Trust, on the other hand, believes the BEST about a person (just like Paul described LOVE in the bible!) and will actually inspire people to get BETTER.
You can force me to stop using drugs, but you can't change me from an addict to a free man. You can modify my behaviour, but not my identity. So it doesn't really fix the problem, it only makes it look better. Having an "accountability partner" is one of THE most unbiblical concepts ever made up, and I guarantee you it has never, ever, set anyone free from any sin. It cant. It's useless, it turns people into whitewashed graves.
God does the exact OPPISITE of an accountability partner. He doesn't say "I saw what you did there," but "hey, look what JESUS did HERE!" - and that's the only message that can save addicts like I used to be. I could take the courses and grades and learn to live with my addiction, I could go to church and learn how to please the christians. Or I could go to God who could actually make me a NEW person. Unlike men, God already saw me, and treated me, like a GOOD and FREE person. And thus I BECAME a good and free person. You see, just like when He created the world, there may be emptiness and void, but when God speaks, stuff happens. When He says something is so, it IS so. Go to people and they will call you an addict and try to fix you. Go to God and He will create a whole new person.
All that said, it's obviously good to have a person you can share your wins and losses with, someone to confess to when you need it. But you're not accountable to any man.
Holiness doesn't come about by eating or not eating certain things. You won't get an inch holier by breathing air, and you won't get an inch unholier by breathing smoke, or asbestos, or by drinking distilled water or chugging down church coffee. Eating salad won't make you more acceptable to God, and shooting heroin won't make you less acceptable to him.
Holiness is something God gives and does, it's not something you achieve. You either are or you aren't. God doesn't need a man's help in sanctifying anything. His standards are a bit too high for us to reach by doing or eating this or that.
Anyway, what do you mean by "spiritually lawful"? Do you have a list of sins in mind? If you want a list, you can find an extensive one in the OT. But those days ended with the new covenant. Now, "everythings is lawful, but not everything benefits". Which means it's not exactly a sin to drink a gallon a coffee a day, but it's not very beneficial either. And that's why you shouldn't do it. That's the wonder of it, isn't it - you don't need some moral threat of losing your salvation or stuff like that in order not to do stupid things, no, you are free to simply use your brain, and of course seek guidance from God and people if in doubt.
He doesn't say "I saw what you did there," but "hey, look what JESUS did HERE!"
Holiness doesn't come about by eating or not eating certain things. You won't get an inch holier by breathing air, and you won't get an inch unholier by breathing smoke, or asbestos, or by drinking distilled water or chugging down church coffee. Eating salad won't make you more acceptable to God, and shooting heroin won't make you less acceptable to him.
Holiness is something God gives and does, it's not something you achieve. You either are or you aren't. God doesn't need a man's help in sanctifying anything. His standards are a bit too high for us to reach by doing or eating this or that.
1 Peter 1:13-21
Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
No, not at all. I advice against it. But I don't label it as sin, just like meat, wine, sex or quoting the bible aren't sins in and of themselves. But they may very well be turned into sin - it depends on the person. All things are lawful, nothing is unclean. Not in and of itself.but aren't you still telling people smoking weed is good?
Absolutely! Support is essential. But christians are more known for offering morality and condemnation.as i said, you are the exception! most addicts need outside support.
I hope I've misunderstood the concept then. A partner is one thing, a sort of "spiritual police officer" is another. It's like having a WWJD bracelet in the shape of a human. I hate those, I've never seen anyone get better because of it, but they've gotten a whole lot more shame to drag around...Have you been hurt by an accountability partner or something? "One of THE most unbiblical concepts ever made up"? That's quite an hyperbole. I have an accountability partner but I can't say I recognise any of the attributes you seems to be giving the concept. It's just a relationship where you can help each other with any problems you might have.
I try to, and I hope you will do the same. It is my opinion that many thousand more have stumbled because of christian's morality and judgment, than have ever fallen because they saw a dude have a beer.Be careful you do not become a stumbling block to weaker brothers by advocating conduct unbecoming a follower of Jesus Christ, mocking the grace given you.
But it's quite contrary to the gospel, as I see it. Love covers a multitude of sins, the bible says. Furthermore,ps an accountability partner is not unbiblical at all. i am not saying YOU holo have to have one, but accountability to a group is helpful to most.
Anyone who refuses to have an accountabilty partner is not willing to shed the offending behaviour. One who desires to be free will actually jump at the opportunity given him to have a person of Godly integrity to help him.
Which reminds me of:
Ecc 4:9 Two are better than one,
Because they have a good reward for their labor.
Ecc 4:10 For if they fall, one will lift up his companion.
But woe to him who is alone when he falls,
For he has no one to help him up.
Ecc 4:11 Again, if two lie down together, they will keep warm;
But how can one be warm alone?
Ecc 4:12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.
And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
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