Being Accountable For Our Words

I have a friend who writes worship songs. The words that he has written have touched my life. I was talking to him one day and he shared a little of the responsibility he felt as a song-writer in our church. He explained to me that when he wrote a song declaring God's greatness and priority in his life, and he put his name to that song, there was a responsibility for him to live his life in accordance with those words. How he could write lyrics such as "You're everything to me" if God was not, in fact, everything to him.

This conversation has stayed with me since that day. As I think about my own giftings I believe that this responsibility equally applies to Christian blogging, or in fact any type of writing. Over the last twelve months, I have written about some challenging subjects such as trusting in God's faithfulness, having faith in God during difficult times, Worshiping God with our daily life and compassion. Over the course of those twelve months I have found myself being tested on a number of these things. In all honesty, I haven't always passed the test.

As I look back on my writings, I can see God's hand at work, as he was encouraging me and teaching me things. We are not perfect and we will not always get it right, but with the Holy Spirit's help I think it would be beneficial to all who consider ourselves 'Christian bloggers' to be aware of the accountability we need to hold ourselves to when we put our name to an article. Anything less is hypocrisy. Pretty challenging huh.