Ten Personal Growth Questions

Perry Noble is the Pastor of NewSpring Church in Anderson, South Carolina. Every year, our leadership takes three days to go to a conference that New Spring produces, entitled Unleash.

As a part of that conference, we get training and tools to use in the ministry field and one of those tools last year was a list of questions that I have hanging above my desk.

As a matter of fact, Perry blogged about them here in this post, and I think that they're not only applicable to ministry leaders, but to everyone who calls themselves a follower of Jesus Christ.

How are you doing with the following personal growth questions?

#1 – Am I reading my Bible for information or transformation? (James 1:22-25)

#2 – Am I allowing people or circumstances to steal the joy that Jesus promised to me? (John 10:10)

#3 – Is there anything in my life that God is consistently dealing with that I am trying to ignore? (Ezekiel 14:1-5)

#4 – Who are the people in my life that God has placed around me for the purpose of me sharing Christ with them and/or inviting them to church? (II Corinthians 5:16-21)

#5 – Is there anyone I need to apologize to? (Ephesians 4:25:27)

#6 – Is there anyone I need to forgive? (Ephesians 4:32)

#7 – Is there a sin I need to confess to others and ask for help? (James 5:16)

#8 – Am I fully utilizing the gifts and abilities that God has blessed me with…or am I simply choosing to waste my life? (I Peter 4:10)

#9 – Do I know more lines from the movies that I love than verse from the Bible that I read? (Psalm 119:11)

#10 – Is there anything going on in my life privately that, if it became public, would cause me and/or the body of Christ to be embarrassed? (I John 1:9, James 5:16)