Year End Evaluation

YEAR END EVALUATION

My good friend, Dr. Glenn Wagner, recently sent me his new book "FIRE IN YOUR BONES." In his book he says that many Christians have settled in for a cheap, imitation of the "normal" Christian life, rather than be all that God wants us to be.

He includes a great list of 20 questions to help determine if we are experiencing the "real" deal or a fake imitation. These are good questions as we approach the end of the year to think about and to visit often during the new year. I will share the first ten today and the rest of the list tomorrow:

During the last three days:

1. Have you been driven by a desire to sacrifice your personal
preferences on behalf of someone else?

2. Did you walk with spiritual authority, not afraid to utilize
God's power to free others?

3. Have you been filled with a sense and understanding that your
decisions, choices and behavior were all being empowered by what can only be explained as supernatural?

4. Did you enter into someone's life with a wisdom that surprised
you and was beyond what you have previously known?

5. Has God's Word leaped off the pages as the Lord Himself was
speaking to you?

6. Were you compelled to run toward a 'sinner' rather than run away?

7. Were you repulsed by the merely 'religious?'

8. Did you risk your reputation on behalf of another?

9. Did you weep for those who don't yet understand God's power?

10. Did you speak truth in love and grace rather
than judgment or in retribution?

Watch for the rest of the list tomorrow. Good questions to ask yourself as this year comes to an end. Are you living the REAL DEAL or a fake imitation?

Great Quote: "It should disturb us that compared to the early church's spiritual power and authority we appear to be spiritually uncoordinated weaklings!" - Dr. E. Glenn Wagner