The Drawing Board

Questions for Accountability January 8, 2010

So, you are in an accountability group? Find yourself asking fuzzy questions? How about giving fuzzy answers that don’t cut to the heart of where you are at? John Wesley created a list of questions that he and The Holy Club would ask each other and answer in all honesty in order to grow as faithful disciples. I leave this to you in the hope that God might use them to expose your heart, and restore you to the holy life that He has called us to.

Before reading these questions be sure you are beginning this exercise with humility, love, and godly concern for those you are meeting with.

• Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
• Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
• Do I confidentially pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
• Can I be trusted?
• Am I a slave to dress, friends, work or habits?
• Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
• Did the Bible live for me today?
• Am I enjoying prayer?
• When did I also speak to someone else about my faith?
• Do I pray about the money I spend?
• Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
• Do I disobey God in anything?
• Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
• Am I defeated in any part of my life?
• Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy or distrustful?
• How do I spend my spare time?
• Am I proud?
• Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
• Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
• Do I grumble or complain constantly?
• Is Christ real to me?

Now before you run away screaming from these questions, understand that they are not meant for condemning, but for us to see our need for grace, and to help us as individuals honestly face where we are at spiritually, so that we might repent and be healed. I pray this challenges you, and that through it God will change you.

-Steve J.