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Divinity for Advanced Secondary Schools

Chapter Responsibility
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Introduction
In our daily lives we have a routine of activities that we are expected to perform.
In schools, teachers on duty monitor the daily activities so that students learn
more effectively. All these are responsibilities. In this chapter, you will learn
the importance of responsibility as depicted in the books of Prophets Haggai
and Zechariah. The competencies developed will enable you to appreciate the
relevance of responsibility in making a responsible citizen.

Think whether they do what they are expected
to do, and whether they perform to the
A world without responsible expected standards. Webster’s Dictionary
people! (2014) relates the noun responsibility to
the adjective responsible, which means
The concept of responsibility answerability to acts and decisions, ability
Responsibility is a broad term. It is defined to fulfil obligations or having important
and approached variously. Therefore, a duties. Therefore, several attributes support
description of the concept in a way that the definition of responsibility. These
informs the intended goal in using it is attributes include authority, answerability
needed. or accountability, and liability.

The general understanding of Authority
responsibility Authority in the sense of responsibility
We usually praise or condemn people refers to the right to perform a task or
for what they have done or left undone. carry out an assignment. It is related
In so doing, we reflect our expectations
regarding their performance. Our to permission or eligibility, which is,
judgement of people’s performance in turn, based on the qualification or
is, in turn, built on whether they are ability to do something. The duty thus
qualified or eligible to do what they do, attaches to this authority in the sense of

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