Spiritual Concerns
Why
1. State
one reason you are committed to serving God.
2. How
can the same reason for your commitment to serving God be used as a
commitment
to having a positive wellness level?
3. What
does it mean to be 'spiritually fit?'
4. What
'spiritual' exercises could you do that would improve your level of
spiritual
fitness?
5. Include
your spiritual walk with your physical walk.
Pray to God while you are walking.
Pick a specific topic for the day and center your thoughts
on it. Have discussions about the topic
with your exercise partner.
Priorities
1. What
are your priorities for your spiritual life?
a.
b.
c.
2. Can
others tell what your spiritual priorities are?
If not, why not?
3. Which
scriptures help you set your spiritual priorities?
Write them out and place them where you can
view them often.
1. How has God demonstrated His readiness to walk with all of mankind?
2. Has
He demonstrated His readiness to walk with you personally?
How?
3. God
asks us to walk with Him every day. List
the excuses you have used in the past that said no to God's requests.
4. How
can these excuses be eliminated?
1. Did
God have a plan in mind of how to save mankind, before Adam and Eve?
2. What
was it?
3. Has
God's plan changed? If
so, how?
4. Where
do you fit into God's plan?
5. Read
about Noah in Genesis 6 and 7. What
planning did he do?
6. Keeping
a prayer or spiritual journal is an excellent way to see how far you
have come.
1. How has God committed Himself to you?
2. How
have you committed yourself to God?
3. Why
is a vow so important to God?
1. How steadfast have you been in serving God? Why?
2. Which
words would you use to describe your service to God?
3. What
have been some of your Īcostsā as a result of serving God?
1. What
excuses prevent you from serving God to the best of your ability?
2. Who
puts these excuses into your mind?
3. List
the excuses that God will accept when He sends Jesus for us? Please use all of the space between these
brackets [].
1. From
a factual point of view, how do you know God cares about you?
2. Intellectually
we know God cares about us. How
difficult is it to accept this emotionally?
Why?
3. How
do you know that He cares about your physical health?
4. How
does the Holy Spirit help the children of God to have positive physical
and
spiritual health?
1. What short range and long-range goals do you have for becoming a better servant for God?
a.
short-range
b.
long-range
2. What
goals does God have for you in this life?
3. Why does God have
goals for us to
achieve in this life?
4. How are your goals in this life different from those God has for you?
1. What
is the prescription for eternal life with God?
2. Why
is God's prescription for salvation so difficult for some to accept?
3. How
close is your current spiritual prescription to what God would have it
be?
1. What would your contract with God look like?
2. Consider
creating a contract with God and signing it.
3. Why
does God consider an oath or a vow so important to keep?
4. How
can baptism be considered a contract with God?
1. What
motivates God to save man?
2. How
does God help us to serve Him?
3. What
motivates you to serve God?
4. How
is your motivation to serve God hindered?
5. What
do you think motivates Satan to pursue his goals?
1. Name
a spiritual walk, which you have never experienced, such as sharing
your
conversion to Christ with a group.
2. When
do you feel the most spiritual?
3. Where
do you feel the most spiritual? (Special location
or place.)
4. How
has your spirituality grown since you became a Christian? Why?
1. How
would you define your Spiritual
Benefit Zone (SBZ)?
2. Which of your
talents are the easiest for you
to use?
3. Which
of your talents are the most difficult
for you to use?
4. How
could you expand your (SBZ)?
1. How
do you prepare or warm up for your weekly spiritual exercises? Why?
2. Does
a mature Christian need the same type of spiritual preparation each day
as a
new Christian does? Why?
3. How
can we help people who do not know Jesus to warm up to the idea of
accepting
Him?
1. When
confronted with a difficult situation, how cool are you emotionally on
a scale
of one to ten with ten being the coolest?
Why?
2. If
you aren't satisfied with your degree of coolness, how could you
improve?
3. How
does God help you to be cool under stress?
1. What
do you plan to do to make sure you have a long duration of service to
God?
2. What
are you currently doing to make sure you serve God for as long as you
live?
3. Is
your spiritual fitness level at the high end of your spiritual range or
at the
low end? Why?
1. How
many times do you attend Church each week?
How do you relate this number to your spiritual walk?
2. How
does meeting with other Christians help you in your spiritual walk?
3. How
often do you minister to other Christians?
Are you satisfied with this number?
Why?
4. What
are your two most important involvements in ministering to others? Why?
Flexibility
1. In
which areas of your spiritual life are you most likely to be flexible? Why?
2. Which
areas of your spiritual life are you most likely to be inflexible? Why?
3. How
often do you pray, asking God to give you guidance in the decisions you
make? If it could be more, why isn't it?
4. Is
the Church too flexible or too ridged? In which ways?
1. Do
you think God is relaxed? Why?
2. When
are you the most relaxed spiritually?
Why?
3. When
are you the most stressed spiritually?
Why?
4. Why
should a Christian be more relaxed than a non-Christian?
5. What
does Satan do to relax?
1. How
would you rate your spiritual
intensity?
2. What
causes your spiritual intensity to increase or decrease?
3. Which
Bible character had the greatest spiritual intensity, in your opinion? Why?
4. Which
Bible character do you feel you are most like spiritually?
5. Which
Bible character do you feel you are least similar to spiritually?
1. How
consistent is your current pace or stride in your service to God?
2. Which
areas of your spiritual growth have been slowest in maturing? Why?
3. How
can you encourage a brother or sister in Christ to move from a slow
pace to
medium pace in service to God?
1. Which
events or activities in your life have caused you to change to a faster
pace in
your spiritual walk?
2. Which
events or activities have caused a slower pace in your spiritual walk?
3. How
could you encourage a brother or sister in Christ to move from a medium
level
of service to God to a faster level of service?
1. Is
your level of service to God more mature today than it was one year ago? Why or how?
2. Is your spiritual
maturity more or less mature than it was five years ago?
Why or how?
3. Which
of these twelve criteria would you consider to be the most important? Why?
4. How could you encourage a brother or sister in Christ to move from medium to fast service to God?
1. What
risks did God take when He decided to save mankind?
2. Did
the risks keep God from following through on His commitment? Why?
3. How
does God help us overcome the risks of living for Him?
4. How
does Satan convince man to take spiritual risks?
1. What
are some of the potential injuries for your spiritual walk?
2. How
can you avoid situations that might cause you spiritual injury?
3. How
would you treat these harmful situations should they occur?
Safety
1. How
does God help you to be spiritually safe?
2. How
can you help provide spiritual safety for others?
3. What
interferes with your spiritual safety?
Why?
1. Which
Bible characters failed in some way and yet God rewarded them?
2. What
did God do to ensure He would not fail us?
3. What
can we do to make sure we do not fail God?
4. Why
will Satan ultimately fail in his goals?
5. Why
are most Christians reluctant to admit their failures to their fellow
Christians?
1. What
in your life limits your service to God?
How?
2. What
changes could you make in your life that would provide you with more
time and
energy for the Lord?
3. When
do you feel the most energized spiritually?
1. If
the strongest spiritual heart is a ten and the weakest is a zero, what
rating
do you feel yours would be? Why?
2. If
you are not satisfied with the above rating, what could you do to
change
it? If you are satisfied, how can you
make sure you maintain your rating?
3. Which
female in the Bible do you think had the greatest serving heart? Why?
4. Which
male in the Bible do you think had the greatest serving heart? Why?
1. What
are your strengths in service to God?
2. What
has contributed to the development of these strengths?
3. Which
areas of your service to God need to be strengthened?
4. How
can you improve strength in the weaker areas of your service?
5. How
strong is God? How does the fact that we
are made in God's image relate to our potential strength?
1. What
benefits can you see from your spiritual walk with God?
2. How
have the benefits you listed above improved your spiritual fitness?
3. Why
is it impossible to achieve perfect spiritual fitness in this life?
1. List
spiritual qualities that people have and must be used or they will be
lost?
2. Do
you have any spiritual qualities that are weaker now than they used to
be? If so, why are they?
3. How
do you make sure your level of spiritual fitness remains acceptable to
God?
4. Which
spiritual qualities do you have that are stronger today than they used
to
be? What has caused this increase in
strength?
1. Is
God pleased with where you are for each of the five domains? If not, why?
2. Would
you want others to follow in your steps for all five domains? If not, why not?
3. Are
there areas of spiritual moderation in your life? If
so, what are they?
1. Are
there areas of spiritual moderation in your life? If
so, what are they?
2. How
can God help us lose the weight of sin?
3. How
can you help others to lose their weights of sin?
4. How
does your weight of sin go up and down over time? Why
1. What
does God say about us experiencing pain and/or discomfort in service to
Him?
2. Will
we experience pain? If so, what
kind? If not, why not?
3. How
does God use pain to produce gain?
4. What
does spiritual pain mean to you?
1. God
desires that we use our full potential of effort as we serve Him. What percent of your maximum effort for God
would you say you are currently using?
2. Is
your level of service to God acceptable?
If not, why not?
3. If
your current level of service is not acceptable, what could you
realistically
do about it?
1. Give
a statement God made in the Bible that indicates how specific His
instructions
are? Why was this particular statement
so specific?
2. How
should we react to specific statements from God to make sure we do what
He has
asked or required?
3. How
do Christians sometimes go overboard on specifics for God?
4. Satan
desires that we use his sinful talents and provides them for us. What happens to a sinful skill when we
continue to use it?
1. If
God has a progression plan for saving the world, what is it?
2. Why
do you think God did not just start out by having everyone at the top
of the
progression?
3. Outline
your spiritual progression since becoming a child of God.
1. How
does God use progressive overload to improve us spiritually?
2. What
are ways God challenges us to raise our levels of spiritual maturity?
3. List
common ways that Christians can overload themselves at church, work,
and home.
4. Do
you have spiritual overloads? If so,
what are they?
5. In
which ways spiritually, could you handle a greater workload?
1. Which
spiritual partners in your life encourage your walk with God? How?
2. How
has your relationship with God improved in the last five years? Why?
3. Where
do you want your relationship with God to be five years from now? Why?
4. What
can you do to make sure your relationship with God improves in the
future?
5. Name
two Biblical stories that indicate a positive relationship between
individuals,
and two that indicate a negative result.
1. What
does God think about our physical appearance?
2. How
does our appearance relate to the fact that we are made in God's image?
3. Most
people feel the process of aging is a negative aspect of physical
appearance? How would Jesus respond to
this?
4. How
can our physical appearance become a god to us?
5. How
does Satan encourage people to concentrate on physical beauty?
1. Which
types of earthly gods do people have that compete with God?
2. How
does Satan compete with us? With God?
3. Is
there a spiritual type of competitiveness that is acceptable to God? If so, what is it?
4. Is
there some lack of competitiveness in your spiritual life that
displeases
God? If so, what?
1. Do
you think God is happy right now with the way things are going on His
earth? Why?
2. Do
you think God is having fun? If He
isn't, do you think He should just give up and quit?
3. When
will God complete His happiness?
4. What
makes Satan happy?
5. In
your opinion, which two Bible characters displayed the most unhappiness? Why do you feel they were unhappy?
Mental Health
1. If
your mental health is not as positive as
you would like for it to be, what has caused it to become less positive?
2. How
can God help you improve your mental
health?
3. Are
you resistant to God's help to improve
your mental health? If so, why?
4. How
do fellow-Christians help and hurt our
mental health?
5. How
do fellow-Christians help and hurt our
mental health?
Self-Concept
1. Are there spiritual
goals you would like to
achieve, but your belief in yourself is holding you back?
List them.
2. Why
does God want us to think highly of
ourselves?
3. Name
two people in the Biblical who had a
high spiritual self-concept and two who had a low spiritual
self-concept. What do you think
contributed to each?
Stress
1. Does
God experience stress? If so, what is it?
2. How
do you think God deals with any stress He
might have?
3. Which
stresses do you have that are related
to your walk with God?
4. How
do you deal with each of your spiritual
stresses?
Behavior
1. How
do you plan to continue your growth in
spiritual fitness?
2. How
will God help you to succeed in this
spiritual growth?
3. If
you are a Christian, which behaviors have
changed since you accepted God's plan of salvation?
4. Outline
a plan for your continued spiritual
behavior improvements.
Longevity
1. What
are you doing to add longevity to your
life?
2. List things in your
life that could be
decreasing your longevity of life.
3. How
can you influence the things on your
lists for the better?
4. List
ways your longevity can continue on
earth after you die?
Masculinity
1. How
does God expect men to lead? Why?
2. What
hinders men from leading their families
spiritually?
3. How
can men in general lead women to Jesus?
4. How
can men lead other men to Jesus?
Femininity
1. How
do you see the female's role in the
family today? In the Church?
2. Why,
or how, are females special to God?
3. What
hinders women from leading their
families spiritually?
4. How
can women in general lead men to Jesus?
5. How
can women in general lead women to Jesus?
Serving
1. List spiritual gifts
God has given
to you.
2. What
is the meaning of each gift we have received from God?
3. How
are you using your gifts from God?
4. Are
you satisfied with how you use Godās gifts in your life?
If not, what could you do about it?
5. Reread I Corinthians 6:19-20. Since completing your walk through this book, do you have new thoughts about what God wants for you?