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ACCOUNTABLE What is a Man? An alphabetical list of attributes to which every man should attain.

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  What is a man?   An alphabetical list of attributes to which every man should attain. A Accountable A man does little in isolation.   Certainly, we like to be alone after talking with people all day, but isolation does not mean secrets.   We have nothing in our lives that we cannot share with our wives or another man.   (See Integrity).   We recognize the dangers of aloneness, so we gather other men around us.   We regularly confess our downfalls to a couple of men we trust.   We are accountable because others are watching us.   If we are fathers, we are the primary example for our children of what a man is.   Someone once told me that if I did not show love and affection to my daughter she would seek it out from others…I can feel my temperature rising even as I think about the prospects. The accountable man lives in freedom because he has surrendered his inner life to the safety of other men.   The secretive man never knows when his secrets will be found out.   Thus living a life of