If we as men want to take a stand and want to fight the good fight, we need to ask ourselves few questions:
1. Do I submit to God’s word – do I know God’s word and base my life on it?
2. Do I submit to the leading of His Spirit?
3. Do I take a stand for what I believe? (Does my theology shape my values and my values my agenda?)
4. Do I practically make time for God, do I make time to listen to him daily?
5. Am I the priest of my household?
6. Is Jesus my model of life? Do I model my life after Him?
7. Do I honor the leaders in the political, work and spiritual arenas of my life?
8. Do I live a lifestyle of gratitude?
9. Do I live a pure life?
10. To which degree does entertainment dull my perception? (What does my being eat: sport, movies, news, music or the word of God?)
11. Am I accountable?
The Early church believers used to greet one another in 3 ways:
A. How is your faith?
B. Shalom
C. Maranatha
We could use this 3 pointers to keep one another accountable by frequently asking one another (your accountability buddy):
A. How is your faith? What is the Lord saying to you today, because faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
B. How is your degree of peace. How are your relationship, how are you doing on a practical level? Any storm robbing you of His peace?
C. Are you mindful that He is coming back? Are you eternity minded? Do you keep reminding yourself that we are only travelers on this earth?
In conclusion 2 scriptures to set a biblical benchmark:
Psalm 15
1 LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill? 2 He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart; 3 He who does not backbite with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend; 4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised, But he honors those who fear the LORD; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change; 5 He who does not put out his money at usury, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
2 Peter 1:5-9
5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
