So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. Romans 14:12
“Accountability as a virtue. It focuses on the way in which relationships of accountability can serve to uphold persons rather than threatening to tear them down. In accountability relationships a person serves to bring about the fulfillment of the other by helping them to become all that they should be. The more the person of faith embodies the virtue of accountability to God, the more that individual recognizes the need for and relies on divine assistance.”
Andrew Torrance in Accountability as a Virtue in Studies in Christian Ethics Volume 34, Issue 3, August 2021, Pages 307-315.
Today is a big day in Albania. Pray for us.
GTP will facilitate meetings in Tirana with 60 pastors, ministry administrators, accountants, attorneys, and other professions to activate a task force to start a peer accountability group (like ECFA in USA) for Albania.
It’s a big deal hosted in collaboration with the Evangelical Alliance of Albania.
Notice, in the words of Torrence, that accountability aims to uphold not tear people down. It helps them fulfill their calling. And it reminds them of their dependence on God.
This is what we want for Albania, for churches and ministries to follow standards together with peer accountability.
And it’s cool to do it near Durrës, the ancient city with 2,500 years of history in the region of Illyricum, where the Apostle Paul ministered, likely en route to Rome. In the chapter after our Scripture penned above, he wrote.
“I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obey God by what I have said and done—by the power of signs and wonders, through the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.” Romans 15:18-19
So, the Apostle Paila likely walked and ministered in this ancient amphitheater pictured above. You can see the Adriatic Sea in the distance on which he sailed. It was cool to walk there briefly yesterday afternoon.
Thanks for your prayers for our team: Ruthie Cristobal (GTP VP of Partnership and Communications), Zenet Maramara (GTP Board Chair), Kehinde Ojo (GTP Board Member), Bezily Varghese (GTP Volunteer), and me.
May God help us activate peer accountability to unleash abundant generosity for His glory.