Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
1 Corinthians 10:12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
Galatians 6:2-5 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5 For each one shall bear his own load.
Galatians 6:6-8 6 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
What are your
responses to accountability?
Silence
Excuses
Blame-shifting (Alibis)
OR
Confession
Admission
Discussion
As she rocks a child who is not there,
she can almost smell his little boy hair
she softly sings him to sleep,
she prays the Lord her soul would keep
As she rocks the child who is not there,
They lived fast and
they lived wild
and it wasn’t long
till she was with child
But they had a lot
bills, no time to spare
and with kids you
can’t get anywhere
The man had dead eyes, his hands were cold
and what they wanted, they were told
They set the date they set the time
and paid the man his thirty dimes
It hurt more than
they said it would
she felt more regret
than she thought she would
They left the clinic
under a dark sky
her man didn’t
understand when she began to cry
As she rocks the child who is not there,
she can almost smell his little boy hair
She softly sings him to sleep,
and she prays the Lord her soul would keep
As she rocks the child who is not there,
From her man she
drifts away, a little more every day
They no longer talk,
there’s not much to say
Sometimes she thinks
she’ll just go away.
They still have bills and time to spare
But she doesn’t want to go anywhere
She just rocks a
child who is not there,
she can almost smell
his little boy hair
she softly sings him
to sleep,
and she prays the
Lord her soul would keep
And if she dies before she wakes
she thanks Him and one request she makes
Since He sent His own precious Son
could she one day see her little one..
For now she rocks the
child who is not there
She can almost smell
his little boy hair …
Tom Russell & Debbie McCollum