Return to The American Night Watch home page. Most of us have a boss, supervisor, or other person that we answer to at work. Those who are married have to consider their spouses in decisions.
Children are responsible to their parents.
We all have someone that we have to answer to. This idea of answering to someone is catching on with many Christian circles. It is common within churches that the pastor is answerable to the church board and to the congregation. Those who are ministers within a denomination often have a hierarchy of church leaders that oversee them and establish guidelines for ministerial behavior. But the concept of accountability has gone beyond that in some groups to include total control over the lives of group members.