pat loughery

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?