Questions to Ask Yourself

The following questions are taken from Salvation Army Orders and Regulations for Soldiers, 1950:

1. Am I habitually guilty of any known sin? Do I practice or allow myself in any thought, word or deed which I know to be wrong?
2. Am I the master of my bodily appetites so as to have no condemnation? Do I allow myself in any indulgence that hurts my holiness, growth, obedience, or usefulness?
3. Are my thoughts and feelings such that I wouldn’t be ashamed to hear them published before God?
4. Does the influence of the world cause me to act, or feel or say things that do not show the love of God?
5. Am I doing all in my power for the salvation of sinners?
6. Am I fulfilling the vows and promises I have made before God in the past?
7. Does what I do as a Christian match what I say about being a Christian?
8. Am I consious of any pride in my life?
9. Do I conform to the fashions and customs of this world or do I show that I despise them?
10. Am I in danger of being carried away with worldly desires to be rich or admired?

These are questions members of John Wesley’s HOLY CLUB asked themselves each day over 200 years ago:

1. Am I consiously or unconsiously 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 confidentially pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?
4. Can I be trusted?
5. Am I a slave to dress, friends, work, or habits?
6. Am I self-consious, 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 about my faith?
11. Do I pray about the money I spend?
12. Do I go 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 like other people?
20. Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, critisize, hold a resentment toward or disregard?
21. Do I grumble or complain constantly?
22. Is Christ real to me?

John Wesley

I want to know one thing – the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore.

God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end He came from heaven.

He hath written it down in a book.

O give me that book!

At any price, give me that book of God!

I have it: here is knowledge enough for me.

Let me be homo unius libri.

Here then I am, far from the busy ways of men.

I sit down alone: only God is here.

In His presence I open, I read His book; for this end, to find the way to heaven.

… And what I thus learn, that I teach.

- John Wesley

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Beginning and Farewell

As I begin this new blog I will be in a new stage in my life. It has been five years living in Cambridge. Somehow those years have gone by so quickly I can hardly believe it. Getting engaged, marriage, designing new software programs, discipleship, evangelism, and having a baby. When I look back at this time in my life I will see this place as a time of renewal and refocusing of my skills and abilities. But as the wireman say “all good things must come to an obvious end”. So now off to training to be a Salvation Army officer and the next stage of my life.