Online Accountability Group Covenant?

February 27th, 2007 | Posted in » Baptist Issues, Christian Living

Based on the interest expressed from so many people in my last post regarding a potential online accountability group, I’d like to keep moving the idea forward. I still don’t have the number of people committed to this I’d like to see, but I don’t think it will be a problem to pick up a few more along the way as we develop this idea (here’s another invitation to make that interest known!).

So… next steps. I’m pretty satisfied with the name “The Nathan Network”, stemming from 2 Samuel 12 (thanks Wes). Moving on from that, the next logical step is to flesh this thing out a bit. It would seem to me that it would be good to start with the agreement we would expect participants to sign… a group accountability covenant.

I’d like to take a crack at that myself and give you all something to work with, but my plate will be VERY full over the next few days and I don’t see much chance of me getting to it very soon… not because I’m disinterested, but simply because Nancy and I head to the hospital bright and early tomorrow for the birth of our third child via c-section (we’re all very excited!). As such, it’s your opportunity to shine.

So, who’s up to the challenge of developing a group accountability covenant for the Nathan Network? Anyone? I’d love to see your thoughts about it, your wording for it, a complete draft of the covenant, whatever… just post your ideas here.

3 Responses to “Online Accountability Group Covenant?”

  1. By Wes Kenney on Feb 28, 2007

    This may be stating the obvious, but it should be a covenant wherein we agree to be held by other covenant members to certain biblical standards. Tim Guthrie recently listed some questions in a post titled “Blogging From A Biblical Perspective – Do We Care?” Perhaps his seven questions might form the basis for such a covenant:

    1. Are we bearing false witness? Ex 20: 16; Rom 13: 9

    2. Are we sowing seeds of discord? Prov 6: 16-19

    3. Are we practicing Matt 18 fully?

    4. What does what we type do to our public testimony? Romans 14: 16-19

    5. Is our plan one of peace? Romans 14: 19

    6. Where is our “love” for the individuals being discussed? Rom 13: 8-10

    7. Is our writing Christ like at all times? I Thess 5: 22

    It’s a starting place, anyway.

  2. By Genesis Sanchez on Oct 30, 2009

    Please tell me you have this still. I’m in great need of it.

  3. By David on Oct 25, 2010

    I had an idea today after I had fallen back into temptation again, and it was of an online accountability group. I really would like an accountability partner, but I feel like there is not really anyone I know and trust well enough. So I turned to Google, hoping someone, somewhere would have had the same idea and started a website or something. This is the closest that I have found, and even though there haven’t been posts in a while, I really hope this whole idea here isn’t dead. I feel the same as the comment above me when they said they really need it, because as do I.

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