After a break to do another study centered on our church’s desire to serve others, my community group went back to reading “Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren this week. In Session Three we offered some challenging questions to supplement the reading. I think these questions are worth all of our consideration as followers of Christ. (The quotations are from the “Purpose Driven” book.)
1. What do you think of when you hear the term “you were created to become like Christ”?
2. How does the statement “God’s ultimate Goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development” strike you?
3. How do you interpret “abundant life”? What does that mean in your life?
4. If “God is far more interested in what you are than in what you do” are you better or worse off if the opposite is true? Is your heart better than your actions?
5. What is the deepest desire of your heart in a spiritual sense?
6. What are some markers of spiritual growth from your own life?
7. How much control of your life does God have? What areas do you need most to yield to Him?
8. How faithful are you at reading God’s Word? What keeps you from reading it more?
9. “What has God already told you in his Word that you haven’t started doing yet?”
10. “What is one dark area of your life that you can now look back upon and see spiritual growth?”
11. Are you currently closer to the calm or closer to the storm?
12. How do you resist temptation?
13. Do you need someone to hold you accountable in an area of temptation?
14. Are you old enough to realize you can’t do it on your own and you won’t get there overnight?
15. “In what area of my spiritual life do I need to be more patient and more persistent?”
