The second part of our first week at RE:SOURCE was about trust, how important it is, and how we can grow trust and relationships.

We believe that the well known principle that "trust has to be earned" is not God's principle. By his grace he gives us lots of things we never earned, and the creation story opens with God entrusting people with sharing his work. There were consequences for our choice to break out of the relationship God intended for us, but the bible keeps repeating something we desperately need to know - we can trust God, and we must.

Jesus chose not to entrust himself to everyone else but did grow relationships with disciples, and he entrusted them with the work of bringing God's kingdom back across the world. This work, led by the Holy Spirit, reminds us of the relationships God originally wanted us to have, and are now possible again through Jesus.

So it is vital that we get better at growing relationships, and trust is central. We looked at Stephen R. Covey's idea of a "trust account" to describe the way levels of trust between people can be added to by deposits of trust-building behaviour, and can also diminish when withdrawals are made by behaviour which undermines trust. We made our own lists of trust deposit and withdrawal behaviours, and took away Stephen M.R. Covey's summary to evaluate ourselves later.

Finally we considered that when we evaluate our own character and behaviour, we have blind spots which can only ever be addressed in a trusting relationship. A great way to do this is to make an accountability partnership with someone, discuss what we are processing in life, what we need to pray about - including sin we need to confess - and any commitments we want help in sticking with. The notes include some classic accountability questions from Methodist founder John Wesley.