Are you 'accountable' or just in a cult?

The speaker at my church gathering recently was urging us to be 'good neighbours' and to have 'gospel conversations' with them.

Of course, one should be able to follow naturally from the other, and one hopes people are equipped to answer the 7 basic questions asked of Christians.

To urge us on to success his talk had 'three points' (drawing our attention to the fact that it had three points).

They were:

1. Pray
2. Prioritize loving your neighbours
3. Go and love them

This read moire like a recipe than an approach to the normal Christian life (not a reference to Watchman Nee, BTW)

But there was a surprise. He really had four points, and the last was:

Be accountable.

This was like hiring a parish spy to lean on you.

Paul's only use of this word is in Romans 3:19 (NASB), in relation to God.

In the body of Christ we edify, encourage, teach one another.

Cults is where 'accountability' occurs (Scientologists use it frequently).

Rather than the love your neighbour recipe, a talk to encourage conscious participation in community and local life and to encourage each other in this would have struck many more Christian chords than an enforcement regime for this mechanistic program.