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Made For This with Jennie Allen

S10: FYP #21 How to Live Accountable to Others

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Made For This with Jennie Allen

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Living accountable to a few trusted friends can be the most life changing thing for you. Here are 3 questions to ask, 2 verses to dig deeper, and 1 challenge for the weekend.

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when you go to storyworth.com slash made for this. this week we have been talking about living accountable. I know not the most fun

0:41.4

week ever but I really believe it could be probably the

0:44.3

most life-changing thing if you would choose a few people in your village to live

0:48.6

accountable to now this is a small group of people that you trust that you've've clocked some time with, that you're not asking a brand new friend to do this, but you're on the lookout for this.

0:58.0

You're looking for someone that you trust, that you can share your struggles with, you can share your sin with, and you can say,

1:04.5

hey, hold me accountable. Now this is going to take a more intentional conversation. This is not going to naturally come about

1:10.9

even in your best of friendships. You have to say to someone awkwardly, hey, hold me accountable.

1:16.8

I want to share with you what's really going on and I need someone to not just listen, but to also tell me the truth and to help me live more in line with what the

1:27.2

scripture says. So three two one you ready these are the three questions you're going to ask yourself

1:33.4

and ask some people around you and have conversations around these three things this

1:36.8

weekend. Number one are you willing to be held accountable? Is this something you're willing to do?

1:47.2

And then the next question is, what feels difficult about accountability? What are you afraid of? And I think these are important things to talk to the person that you're going to be in this type of relationship with so that they know when you recoil or you don't really tell the whole truth or if you're pushing them away why that might be.

2:06.4

So if they know, okay, this is difficult for her because she feels judged or because she feels

2:11.8

misunderstood, then they might know better how to pull you in and

2:15.5

how to ask questions and how to be more sensitive.

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