Accountability

Accountability:  Being willingly answerable and responsible for your behavior

Taking responsibility for your decisions + inviting others to provide feedback on your behavior

= accountability

People with personal accountability will be responsible and willing for others to know their obligations.  Accountable people are liable and answerable and take responsibility for their attitudes and actions.

 Accountability requires:

• ETHICAL VALUES:  Thinking that focuses only on profit and the bottom line is disconnected from moral values.  True accountability requires that this be ethically rooted.
• STEWARDSHIP:  Accountability comes from a sense that we are responsible to ourselves and others for the gifts and resources under our control and that we are responsible for stewarding them for the good of the whole.
• VULNERABILITY:  If we do not invite people to speak into our lives, we lack accountability.

 “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”  – Hebrews 10:24–25 (NIV)