If you have no one to examine you after exposure to the Word of God, your obedience does not have the safeguards it needs. It’s open ended, probably bound to fail, and will happen at a much slower rate than if you yielded to the accountability God intended you to have. Accountability in the church is to go hand-in-hand with instruction from the Word. There is to be the standard proclaimed, but there is also to be supervision and correction of those who disobey the Word. The church is to be a place to hear the Word, but also a means to ensure we do the Word.

If you have no one to examine you after exposure to the Word of God, your obedience does not have the safeguards it needs. It’s open ended, probably bound to fail, and will happen at a much slower rate than if you yielded to the accountability God intended you to have. Accountability in the church is to go hand-in-hand with instruction from the Word. There is to be the standard proclaimed, but there is also to be supervision and correction of those who disobey the Word. The church is to be a place to hear the Word, but also a means to ensure we do the Word.