MARKETPLACE FACTS
ACCOUNTABILITY OR LONE RANGER-ISM’ Module 508 B Mario Denton Marketplace facts: Accountability
Marketplace facts: Accountability
Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace. • Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series. • Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.
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In our world • In our highly individualistic world of can-doism, the temptation for the Horatio Hornblower/Arnold Schwarzenegger types of the world is to go it alone as they hack their way through the asphalt jungle of life.
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In our world • Such is the “I am the captain of my fate” cult of self-sufficiency and selfdetermination. • Jeremiah observed such types in stating, Each (man) pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle. (8:6b) • For the follower of Christ, that formula will ultimately spell disaster.
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Nowhere in Scriptures • Nowhere in Scriptures do we find self-sufficient isolationism and John Wayne-esk go-it-aloneism valued as the Biblically sanctioned pattern that leads us toward spiritual maturity or effective Christian service.
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Moses • Moses was enjoined by his father-inlaw – after near drop dead exhaustion of ‘go-it-aloneism’, to develop a team of co-workers. (Exodus 18:13-27)
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Jesus sent the Twelve When Jesus sent the Twelve out for training and ministry, it was in pairs. (Mark 6:7)
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Paul Paul made a practice of traveling and ministering in pairs or with a team. (Acts 13:2; Acts 20:4,) Marketplace facts: Accountability
Paul • Paul’s pattern for church growth was that of a united effort through Christian community. (See Eph. 4:1116; I Cor. 12-14; Heb. 10:24,25)
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Ask the hard questions: • How is your walk with God? • How is God speaking to you? • What’s going on in your thought life?
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Ask the hard questions: • How are you really doing down in your gut? • How is He leading you in terms of your ministry?
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Ask the hard questions: • • • •
How’s your marriage? How is your family doing? How are your finances? How is your health?
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Ask the hard questions: How can we pray for you? Support you?
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• Surrounded as I am by these men reminds me of Ecclesiastes 4:9,10, and Proverbs 13:20a; 27:6a
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Two are better than one • Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. • But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up…He who walks with the wise grows wise…Wounds from a friend can be trusted… (See 1 Sam. 23:16; 2 Sam. 11:11,12; Job 4:3,4; Prov. 17:17)
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How about you? • In a world where fellow believers are dropping like flies to immorality, discouragement, isolation, loneliness, and lack of true accountability, are you out there hacking it out alone? • Perhaps even twisting in the wind… alone? Marketplace facts: Accountability
How about you? • Or are you choosing to travel with a company of committed likeminded warriors like my friends who are intent on helping this needy pilgrim remain on the right path until he crosses the line into eternity? • If you are electing to go it alone, I wonder what the odds are that you will end well with God ? Marketplace facts: Accountability
How about you? • Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. (Jeremiah 17:5,6) Marketplace facts: Accountability
Prayer Focus • Father, In the name of Jesus, I surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world. • The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me. • I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen Marketplace facts: Accountability
Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25 • “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. • Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. • But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV) Marketplace facts: Accountability
Learning, application and commitment • One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was … • I intend to apply this principle in my marketplace by: ….. • With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately. Marketplace facts: Accountability
Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!
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