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ACCOUNTABILITY WITHIN THE CHURCH
William Diehl is a sales manager for a major steel company. He is also a devout Christian who has concerns about the lack of accountability and intentionality by the church for its members. Such a lack of concern and direction by a major corporation would mean certain financial ruin, but Diehl observes that it does not seem to concern the church at all. He writes: “In almost thirty years of my professional career, my church has never once asked for any accounting of my ministry on the job. My church has never once offered to improve the skills that would make a better minister, nor has it ever asked if I needed any kind of support. There has never been an inquiry into the types of ethical decisions I must face, or whether I seek to communicate the faith to my co-workers. I have been in a congregation where there was any type of public affirmation of a ministry in…