An Annual Spiritual Checkup
Below are ten questions you can use as an annual review of your spiritual life.
- Prayer
How has your prayer life been this year? Blossoming? Fading? Faltering? Open? Routine? Is this an area that needs more focus for you? - Learning
What have you studied this year (formally or informally)? What have you learned? - Worship
Are you worshipping at least weekly? How has that time been? Highs? Lows? Are you taking time to prepare or "just showing up"? - Leadership Skills
Do you sense that your capacity to lead has increased? Are you observing the leadership of others? What are you learning? - Community Building
How are you helping your congregation to thrive, formally and informally? - Action
Where have you been visible in your faith? What blocks you from further action? - Serving Others
Where have you served God by serving others this year? - Sense of Growth
Where do you feel you have grown this year - spiritually, emotionally, in terms of relationships, and in terms of knowledge? - Balance
How is your sense of living a balanced life? Do you keep sabbath? - Growing Edge - Stretching Beyond Your Comfort Zone
If we accept that we are not living in the fullness of the kingdom yet, where are you called to focus in the coming year?