★ More Questions (this time, spiritual formation questions)

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Pat L

April 13, 2005

A group of guys in our church has a weekly breakfast where we talk about how life is going. In that breakfast gathering we ask and answer four questions:

1. How are you personally?
2. How’s your family?
3. How’s your area of responsibility?
4. What is the Lord speaking to you?

These questions are awesome; very helpful at keeping us focused on authentic and growing.

There are a set of five queries in McLaren’s book that I think are very helpful as well (though I think they’d take significantly longer to answer). The context here is a group of people who meet yearly as a kind of learning community, out of their normal life/ministry context. Here are the queries:

1. How is your soul?
2. How have you seen God at work in and through your life since we last met?
3. What are you struggling with?
4. What are you grateful for?
5. What God-given dream are you nurturing?

One response to “★ More Questions (this time, spiritual formation questions)”

Craig

April 13, 2005

The follow-up questions from McLaren sound much more significant and would definitely require more time and consideration. I like the idea of an annual event or semi-annual to note these answers somewhere private and then have opportunity to compare every 3 – 6 months.

It is so easy to forget our mission and purpose in our color soaked and fast-paced urban life. To stop and force honest feedback on these topics would be rewarding over a period of time and more likely to prompt us out of our comfort zone.

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