Humility, Accountability, and Risk-Taking

Joel Virgo at the Resurgence blog wrote an entry on masculinity, and one line in particular has really resonated with me about accountability (and applies to women as well as men):

If you have fostered an environment that causes men to confuse their approval ratings by more “mature” men with an accurate measure of godliness, then good luck seeing them take a single risk for the kingdom.

Read the whole thing at Men: Bucking the Trend, Part 5 | TheResurgence.

Update: Tim Challies also covered very similar ground here, previously.