So. Accountability groups rock. This is a standard view of most Christians these days. What’s especially awesome is when someone in said group really drops an honesty bomb on the rest of the members… where someone admits to something sorta big/serious (like ‘I’ve been cheating on my spouse’, or ‘My spouse and I are trying to start a family’, or ‘I struggle with homosexual thoughts’…).

These honesty moments are the greese that keeps a group healthy and strong and bonded. The challenge is keeping the group 1) open/accepting of those moments 2) ready to respond to them in a holy and healthy way, 3) what to do in the ‘dry spells’ between these bombs, and 4) Not letting a lack of these ‘bombs’ make it seem like the group isn’t ‘open’ to new honesty.

More to come on this topic (and how it relates to reconciliation)