Accountability is essential for any society to function and ministerial accountability is no different. We are all held accountable in one way or another. For example, there are laws to obey and if we fail to be obedient, we may have to suffer the consequences set by the officials who hold us accountable. Accountability is simply being responsible for one’s actions.
In the church, we as ministers are accountable firstly to God and then to our families, congregations, ministerial organization, and even our fields of labor. An important aspect of accountability …