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Fri 15 Oct, 2004 11:37 am
Now HERE'S a CHALLENGE!!!
Each member of John Wesley's Holy Club asked himself these twenty-two questions every day during his private devotions. Are YOU up for it??
1. Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
2. Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?
3. Do I confidently pass on to another what I was told in confidence?
4. Can I be trusted?
5. Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
6. Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
7. Did the Bible live in me today?
8. Do I give it time to speak to me every day?
9. Am I enjoying prayer?
10. When did I last speak to someone else of my faith?
11. Do I pray about the money I spend?
12. Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
13. Do I disobey God in anything?
14. Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
15. Am I defeated in any part of my life?
16. Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?
17. How do I spend my spare time?
18. Am I proud?
19. Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
20. Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?
21. Do I grumble or complain constantly?
22. Is Christ real to me?
0. I'll give it a try
1. No
2. I ofthen exaggarate to make a point.
3. No
4. Yes
5. Sure, who isn't
6. Seldom
7. No
8. No
9. No
10. Don't have one
11. No
12. Define "on time"
13. Don't belive in said character
14. No
15. No
16. I am very ofthen critical, and i am distrustful at times, which I really consider justified. Irritable? Not ofthen. touchy? Nah
17. answering odd questions on internetforums
18. Yes I suppose
19. Again I do not belive in said character, but yes, I am glad that I am not as other people.
20. Certainly, and I prefer to spend my time in the company of other people. Not very difficult, as the feligng seems to be mutual.
21. No
22. No
Maybe this is not what you had in mind when you posted, but I've answered every question and posted it here.
1. Yes I am.. I have a paragraph on this, it's in spanish, if anyone's asks for a translation I'll do it.
2. There was a period, about a year in lenght, when I spoke and acted with honesty. Of course there were some times I lied (mostly when asked how I was... I would systematically answer fine), but it proved to be very useful when deciding to tell the truth or to tell a white lie as I already had chosen to tell the truth. Right now I give less significance to telling lies though I mostly (and by mostly I say more than 99% of the time) talk with the truth. My father once told me to never me ashamed to tell the truth, I really stuck.
3. Depends mostly on who told me, what that person told me and if he knows about my bonds of confidence with other people. There are 2 persons I tell practically everything, so one knows I'll tell the other and viceversa. Other people, I generally don't tell their secret to someone else.
4. About the past, I can be trusted. About the future, well, no.
5. Yes, mostly I'm a slave of the PC.
6. The 3 of them.
7. Probably.
8. No.
9. Not really.
10. Tell someone, 2 days ago. Discuss, some months ago.
11. No.
12. I wish.
13. In lots of things.
14. Sometimes, it mostly is by peer pressure though.
15. In the fear category, I'm very susceptible of fear.
16. Jealous and irritable.
17. PC, videogames,friends, seldom reading
18. Yes
19. No.
20. Yes, there are some people I don't like. I'm avoiding them as much as I can.
21. Yes
22. No, but I might change this answer tomorrow.
Glad to see people posting. I posted this just to share, since it's so helpful to myself. Every time I open my fridge, I check mark in my head the things I did or didn't do that day. Gives me something to strive for.
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