The Frailty of Human Deliverers: Part II • 02.27.22
Nick Lees   -   February 28, 2022

The Frailty of Human Deliverers Pt. II
Judges 8

Gideon as a portrait of the human struggle

  1. Keeping God in view promotes humility
  2. Danger comes in forgetting God
  3. Worship is more than words

The Frailty of Human Deliverers Pt II
Judges 8

Good morning church family! If you’re new this morning, welcome! You’re joining us on a verse-by-verse study through the book of Judges. Before we jump back into that study, I want to…

Dismiss 4th & 5th graders

Ushers + Bibles (Pg 119 of Blue Bibles)

Go ahead and turn to Judges 8 as we prepare for our study of God’s Word this morning. Today we’re finishing up our three-week study of the life of Gideon. Two weeks ago, I introduced Gideon to you as the fifth of the twelve judges in this book. When I last left you, Gideon had just tested God with the fleece… Last week Pastor Mark walked us through how God responded to Gideon by testing him! You could almost feel the tension as Gideon was forced to reduce his army to a smaller and smaller size.

God was determined to get the glory by making it clear that HE was the deliverer of Israel. And he was going to teach Gideon a lesson about TRUSTING and OBEYING him. Pastor Mark walked us through Chapter 7, where we saw God provide Israel a great victory as their little army of 300 men faced off against 135,000 of the Midianities, Amalekites, and the other people of the east. Let me remind you of how that went by reading verses 21-23 of chapter 7.

Judges 7:21–23 (ESV)

21 Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled. 22 When they blew the 300 trumpets, the Lord set every man’s sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. 23 And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.

300 men, standing in their places, stretched out around the camp of 135,000 enemies. I really appreciated the visual Pastor Mark gave of how they likely wouldn’t have been able to see one another in the dark given how large the camp was… And they stood still as the enemy army was put into a panic by the LORD! Yahweh set every man’s sword against his comrade and the enemy army devoured itself. Then they fled back towards their homeland. What an incredible turn of events! The chapter closed with Gideon sending messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim calling them to join the battle by cutting them off at the waters near Beth-barah and the Jordan. (MAP – Fleeing army) The Ephraimites successfully do this and capture two of the enemy princes (aka commanders/generals) Oreb and Zeeb, whom they kill and bring the evidence of their deaths back over the Jordan to Gideon. Victory! Many of the tribes worked together against a common enemy.

Game over, right?! God has delivered Israel yet again from her oppressor and now it’s time for the land to have rest, isn’t it? Not quite. Listen to what happens next when the men of Ephraim return from battle.

Judges 8:1–3 (ESV)

Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely.

Uh oh! Instead of there being tribal unity, the tribes begin to turn on one another! Let’s keep reading to see what happens next.

2 And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? 3 God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger against him subsided when he said this.

Great diplomacy, Gideon! He shows an incredible amount of humility as he downplays what he accomplished versus what they have accomplished in this battle. He suggests that God has given them the most important component of the victory over the commanders of Midian. And this diplomacy works, the Ephraimites are calmed down, for now… Their anger will come back up again later in the book! *Pause* Keep all that in mind while we zoom our focus back out for a moment.

In our study today, we’re going to again view Gideon’s life through the lens of him as…

Gideon as a portrait of the human struggle

As we heard in previous weeks, there are a lot of negative things in Gideon’s character and life – he’s fearful, he doesn’t know God very well, he’s lacking in trust, he tests God, but at the same time Gideon is also obedient in some powerful ways. He is a portrait of conflicted people. People who have deceived hearts but are nonetheless called to represent God on earth. We have a lot to learn from Gideon and the Lord’s interactions with him.

With all that in mind, let’s turn our attention to how Gideon continues to be a portrait of the human struggle, starting with…

  1. Keeping God in view promotes humility

We see hints of this in the interaction between Gideon and the men of Ephraim. When the men of Ephraim came to him angry and ready to accuse, Gideon defused the situation by pointing out God had granted them the greatest part of the victory. The man who had previously shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” is now deferring to another tribe. He doesn’t get aggressive with them and try to call their bluff. He is willing to be thought less of in this situation.

Now, in full transparency, I put together this sermon outline two weeks ago when I worked on all three chapters of Gideon’s story. As I spent more time studying chapter 8 this week, I don’t believe that I would have stated the point quite this way. I fully believe that keeping God in view promotes humility, namely because when we see how GREAT God is, the only appropriate response is to be humbled before Him and live differently. But I’m not convinced that Gideon really has God in view here, nor that he was really all that humble as a result. When you dig into the word Gideon uses for “God” in verse 3, it’s the more generic name “Elohim” rather than the personal name of God “Yahweh” that he had shouted in his battle cry earlier. He appears to be moving away from dependence on God towards a dependence on himself. When we pick up in verses 4-21, you’ll see that Gideon goes on a vengeful rampage that takes him across many miles and turns him against fellow Israelites.

One commentator I read put it this way:

If the narrative ended roughly with 8:3, Gideon would be considered one of the heroic judges of ancient Israel, notwithstanding his problem with fear and lack of faith. However, the narration continues, and the portrayal of Gideon becomes bleaker and bleaker. The moment that he and his men cross the Jordan, a whole new Gideon emerges. (NIVAC)

 

Does keeping God in view promote humility? Absolutely, but unfortunately that is found lacking in Gideon.

Gideon should have realized that his men stood still in the battle and God defeated the Midianites all around them. Gideon should have had no problem telling the men of Ephraim that God gave them the choicest part of the victory and celebrated with them that God did it all! A clear view of God should have prompted Gideon to be content with the victory they had achieved. He could have returned home in peace.

However, what we’re about to see and read is that these things were not on Gideon’s mind, nor did they truly shape his response. Gideon is going to continue down a dangerous path of forgetting God and doing what is right in his own eyes. Let’s read now in verses 4-21 and see how this plays out.

Judges 8:4–21 (ESV)

4 And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing. 5 So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.” 6 And the officials of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?” 7 So Gideon said, “Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.” 8 And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. 9 And he said to the men of Penuel, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”

10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword. 11 And Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, for the army felt secure. 12 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.

13 Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres. 14 And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men. 15 And he came to the men of Succoth and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?’ ” 16 And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson. 17 And he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.

18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king.” 19 And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.” 20 So he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise and kill them!” But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a young man. 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.

Oh, how things have changed for Gideon! He went from a man who stood still and trusted God to deliver his enemies into his hands to a man who doggedly pursues his enemies, pushing his troops to the brink of exhaustion in the process. Now Gideon’s example reveals to us that…

  1. Danger comes in forgetting God

Gideon has now taken matters into his own hands. You heard how he responded to the people of Succoth and Penuel! Sure, they were rude and should have provided provisions for him, but his response is incredible in comparison – threatening to flail their flesh and break down their tower. He has become a man driven by vengeance.

What’s not immediately clear is how far Gideon was willing to drive his army for vengeance. It is believed the city of Karkor was over 100 miles away, far out of Israelite territory. The mission has shifted from delivering the people to avenging his brothers, as we find out in verse 19. This is no longer about doing what God wants, but about doing what Gideon wants. Did you notice how absent any mention of Yahweh was in this part of the text? Gideon has essentially abducted this 300-person army of the Lord and made it into his own private garrison to accomplish his will. In fact, as we read verses 10-17 it was repeatedly focused on what Gideon did…

  • Gideon went up…
  • He pursued them…
  • He threw all the army into a panic… (not Yahweh)
  • Then Gideon returned from battle…
  • He captured…
  • He took the elders… he took thorns… he taught them a lesson
  • He broke the tower of Penuel… and he killed the men of the city

Gideon is doing these awful things in his own strength and will. As I mentioned two weeks ago, Gideon is clearly not a hapless, weak man. He knows how to fight and how to lead. He is diplomatic when needed, but also vengeful as well. He is willing to flog his own countrymen for their unwillingness to help! And he even kills an entire city! He is the first judge to turn the sword against his fellow Israelites.

This is unfortunately the next step in the downward cycle of apostasy and anarchy that we see in Judges. More and more frequently in-fighting is going to characterize the nation of Israel.

How could such awful things come to be in a man or in a nation at large? This is the natural outworking of humanity’s path when we forget God. When you fail to remember who God is and the ways He has dealt bountifully with you, like Gideon or the nation of Israel, then you will treat others with disdain and contempt. Gideon should have been patient and longsuffering with the men of Succoth and Penuel, after all God had been patient and longsuffering with his own fear and disobedience. But he forgot God and took matters into his own hands.

Just this week, in our Bible reading plan, we read Psalm 53, which captures this forgetting of God so well:

Psalm 53:1–3 (ESV)

  1     The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;

there is none who does good.

  2     God looks down from heaven

on the children of man

        to see if there are any who understand,

who seek after God.

  3     They have all fallen away;

together they have become corrupt;

        there is none who does good,

not even one.

The Scriptures paint a picture of humanity that does not remember or worship God. In fact, as you heard in Psalm 53 there is a sweeping indictment “There is none who does good… all have fallen away… there is none who does good, not even one.” This same passage is quoted in Romans chapter 3 in the New Testament. Both times it is intended to reveal just how dire humanity’s situation is outside of faith in God.

Faith in God is what the Israelites were lacking. They were prone to running after false gods and chasing the worldly pleasures and treasures of the nations around them. Faith in God is what Gideon is lacking as well at this point in his journey. He has forgotten God and is dealing sinfully with the people around him. His life has been consumed by a desire for vengeance, and shortly, as we’ll see, it will be consumed by a desire to be recognized as ruler over Israel.

Gideon and these passages are a warning to us today. A warning of the danger of forgetting God. When we forget God, we do terrible things. Our lives become centered not around God but around all kinds of other things; most commonly our own selfish desires.

This is exactly what we see happening with _____. He has forgotten God and he lives for his own desires. Like Gideon he has forced others to commit terrible atrocities in pursuit of his desires.

Most of humanity will never have the power or influence that _______0070/ or Gideon has but make no mistake that we can just as easily forget God and do awful things. Forgetting God leads us to:

  • Treat one another as lesser

As seen so prominently in the stains of racism and abuse that mark human history. Or perhaps even seen in how we treat the poor or those whose lifestyle we don’t agree with.

Forgetting God leads us to:

  • Build our own kingdom

How many men and women have sacrificed their families on the altar of success in the workplace? Or how many have left their spouse for the arms of another that they believe will complete them? How many remain unmarried and use others for their own sexual gratification? These practices have become incredibly common and mainstream in our world. It’s likely that we all know of at least one if not multiple people who have been affected by just these 3 scenarios.

So much devastation has occurred because of forgetting God…

Forgetting God leads us to:

  • Warp God’s design for sexuality (as stated above, and in a myriad of other ways)
  • Disdain the beauty of life (abortion, euthanasia)
  • Seek revenge (or dwell in bitterness)

This is what Gideon did and it is all too common for people to try to get even or get their pound of flesh rather than forgiving as God has forgiven us in Christ Jesus. (Eph. 4:32)

Forgetting God has caused incredible damage throughout human history. My concern is that you would hear these examples and say, “Well, I don’t do those things.” Perhaps not. But please be aware that this is just the tip of the iceberg of ways we forget God and allow it to lead to sinful living.

We just as easily forget God and allow it to lead to:

  • Functional unbelief or fear (will God really take care of me? Will he really provide?)
  • Trying to control (If I only do this and that, then they’ll respond the way I want. Then I’ll get the outcome I want.)
  • Complaining or grumbling (As if my life and circumstances weren’t at God’s good discretion)
  • Sinful anger and/or conflict (I will respond however I want. It makes me feel better!)

Is the point being made? Forgetting God leads to sinful outcomes and ways of life. It did in Gideon’s case. It is happening before our eyes in Putin’s case. And it continues all around us in the lives of our friends, family, even our own lives!

How are we ever to fight and overcome it? By the grace of God through faith! We believe that faith is a gift of God because God says it is.

Ephesians 2:8–9 (ESV)

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Romans 6:23 (ESV)

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Cry out to God for faith in Jesus! Ask Him to rescue you from your unbelief and forgetfulness of Him. We desperately need God to work and move in us. That’s appropriate whether it’s the very first time you’ve ever done so, or if you’ve been a Christian for years or even decades. Ask God to help you cultivate a growing awareness of Him and a deep, abiding faith in Him.

*Pause*

Let’s turn back to the life of Gideon and glean one final lesson from him today. What happens after his vengeful quest to kill Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian? Let’s read the rest of chapter 8 to find out.

Judges 8:22–35 (ESV)

22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.” 23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.” 24 And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) 25 And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil. 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels. 27 And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family. 28 So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

29 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. 30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech. 32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

33 As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god. 34 And the people of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side, 35 and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.

Oh my, oh my, oh my… By the end of the Gideon cycle, we are essentially back where we began. The nation has turned away from God and is worshiping the Baals again! The final segment of Gideon’s life is once again very revealing for us. And again, there is a valuable lesson to be gleaned from it for the rest of humanity…

  1. Worship is more than words

Gideon says the right thing in verse 23. “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you.” His response to their offer sounds good, on the surface. He points them back to the Lord as the one who rules over them.

But look at what immediately follows his words! Gideon does the wrong things! His misdeeds are captured for us throughout the rest of the chapter.

It starts with requesting the gold of their spoils of war. Those earrings end up being a haul of roughly 41-42lbs of gold (1,700 shekels). He also has the ornaments and pendants that were on the foreign kings, as well as their purple garments. He takes these spoils of war and turns them into an ephod – which is a holy garment reserved for the high priest. (IMAGE) On the screen behind me is an artist’s rendition of the ephod that the high priest wore in the earlier days of Israel. The ephod in those days was only to be worn by the high priest and only in the service of worship of Yahweh.

But Gideon makes a different ephod and puts it in his own city, rather than giving it to the high priest to use in the tabernacle in Shiloh. So, Gideon has not only made an idol, he has also set it up as a competing place of worship to the tabernacle of the One, True God! And look at the devastating effects it has in verse 27… “And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.” Gideon, the human deliverer of Israel, has now become a leader in apostasy, turning the nation away from Yahweh.

Gideon’s actions reveal that his words were either insincere or misguided. He may have said that the Lord shall rule over them, but, he desired to be in charge. This ephod was only one such piece of evidence. When we get to verses 29-31, we hear that Gideon has a family tree so large that it does not fit with the norm of his day, unless you were a ruler. It was entirely common for rulers of the ancient near east to have many wives and lots of children. Only a man of great power and resources could support 70 children! Gideon was functioning as other rulers were prone to do! In fact, he was going against God’s own design and laws by engaging in polygamy.

Now you might have noticed that attention is drawn to one son in particular, a man by the name of Abimelech. Want to guess what his name means? “My father is king.” Gee… What do you think was on Gideon’s heart and mind?

Worship is more than words. It is a way of life. Your desires and actions reveal who or what you worship. God doesn’t want you to simply say the right things and then go and live however you want. He desires you to worship him with all your being. Listen to this brief survey of Scripture on this matter:

Deuteronomy 6:5 (ESV)

5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Psalm 51:16–17 (ESV)

16     For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;

you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

17     The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Romans 12:1 (ESV)

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Worship is an act of the whole person. Your heart must be in it, your life must reflect it, AND your words should support it! In all that we desire, say, think or do, we seek to point others to God. To declare how He is the King and Ruler of all, and He is worthy of worship.

A good takeaway from Gideon’s story would be to evaluate – “Are there any areas of my life that are not committed to worshiping Yahweh?” Anything you desire, say, think or do that does not honor Him or point others to Him? If so, then what needs to change in the days ahead so that your whole life worships God? *Pause*

Two weeks ago, the question was – “what will it take for them to remember the covenant?!” And now we have our unfortunate answer in verses 33-34… They will not remember God, but rather forget him and turn and make a new covenant with one of the false gods. Baal-berith means “Baal of the covenant”. Israel made a new covenant with one of the Baals, not with its own covenant-keeping God.

The outcome of Gideon’s influence and leadership is greater anarchy and idolatry. As we’re about to see, the decisions of one generation have a profound effect on the next generation… Next week we’ll see Abimelech is going to follow in his father’s footsteps but magnified 100-fold. *Pause*

As we move towards the close of our service today, I desired to end with the Lord’s Table. This is an opportunity for Christians to remember all that the Lord has done for us through Jesus Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. The reality is that God has made a way for us to be rescued and redeemed. We do have a divine deliverer! Even when human deliverers fail, our Divine Deliverer does not! And after seeing such powerful examples of the dangers of forgetting God today, I thought it would be appropriate for us to take time to remember Him together.

We will celebrate by partaking of both the bread and the cup as a symbol and reminder of Jesus’ body broken in our place and his blood shed for the forgiveness of our sins. Communion is an opportunity to remember how great a price was paid so that we could be saved from our sin. It is a sobering, yet joyful celebration for Christians. Sobering that the Son of God would give himself for us as a ransom. Joyful that he did, and the result was a living hope that cannot be taken from us! Jesus is victorious; therefore, we have the hope of heaven with Him!

At this time, I’d like to invite the ushers forward with the elements.

Before we pass the elements, I want to share the biblical requirements for joining in this celebration.

This celebration was given by Jesus to his followers. It is an opportunity to remember all that he has done for us. We invite anyone who has trusted in Jesus Christ alone for salvation to join us in this celebration today. If your faith is not in Jesus Christ alone, then we would encourage you to let the elements pass by you and simply consider what you’ve heard so far during the service this morning and reflect on what is keeping you from trusting him. No one will judge you for not partaking.

The second requirement we see in Scripture is a call to examine ourselves. This is the idea of making sure that you’ve confessed any known sins and sought to turn away from it. It would not be wise to partake of the table if you have sin in your life for which you are not repentant. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 11 that taking the table while living in sin is eating and drinking judgment on yourself. I would ask you not to do that, for your sake and the sake of God’s glory. Instead, I would encourage you to use this time to confess that sin and make a plan to address it right away. If you know you need to be reconciled to someone else in this church, please take care of that during this time. The table is time to protect the unity of the church.

The ushers are going to pass the elements now as we have a time of silent reflection and prayer to prepare for the table. Please use this time to reflect on all that we’ve talked about today and to prepare yourself to take communion by confessing and repenting of any known sin. After the elements have been passed, I’ll lead us in prayer and taking communion together.

Ushers pass elements

Silent prayer. Corporate prayer.

1 Corinthians 11:23–26 (ESV)

23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Take bread.

25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Take cup

Hallelujah, thank you, Jesus!

The last song we’re going to sing together today is a classic hymn of the faith called “Come Thou Fount”. In the song, the writer speaks of an Ebenezer – which is a term the Bible from 1 Samuel 7 and literally means ‘stone of help’. Samuel wanted the people to remember, not just for a few days, but for years, for decades, for generations, how God had come to the rescue of his people when they humbled themselves before him. Gideon would have been much better off if he had raised an Ebenezer rather than an ephod. I want to encourage you, as you sing the lyrics of this song, to make it personal. To commit to God that you will remember Him this week. To allow communion and the realities it represents to drive you to a position of humility and worship.

Let’s stand and worship our Savior together!

 

Questions and Discussion:

  1. What stood out to you about the dangers of forgetting God?
    1. Are you able to identify times in your life when you are functionally forgetting God?
  2. How is it comforting to realize that the antidote to forgetting God is to embrace the gift of faith? How can a man/woman embrace this gift in a practical sense?
  3. What did you learn from Gideon’s example at the end of his life?
    1. Are there any areas of your life that are not committed to worshiping Yahweh? If so, what are they?
      1. Identify 1-2 practical steps below that you can take this week to address them.
    2. Knowing that our hearts are prone to wander, how will you “raise an ebenezer” to remember God this week?

 

Action Steps during Accountability:

Look for 1-2 specific steps that each person is going to take this week to apply what they’ve learned.

 

Hold one another accountable for the steps that you said you were going to take last week. Goal is to address the heart, not simply behavior change.