Would you like to understand your spiritual health better? Are you open to serious self-examination? We have created a questionnaire which you can download here Link to PDF of Spiritual Life Questionnaire (It will remain available on our website under Resources/Free Downloads.) We call it the Spiritual Life Questionnaire.
We find that this assessment tool will help you understand your spiritual health. The Spiritual Life Questionnaire doesn’t rate someone’s spiritual life but asks important questions for examining one’s own spiritual condition. It is up to the individual to decide how to proceed based on how they answered the questions.
If you use it to help others, the questionnaire makes it easy to cover many different topics quickly. One big advantage of the questionnaire is that people will often be more open when answering written questions than when talking face to face. Sometimes there is something they have been wanting to say and they are willing to say it on paper. It gives you very helpful information that allows you to better understand how you can help someone. You can give it to the staff at a church, to someone you might coach or mentor, to family members, to someone who is considering involvement in a ministry including missions, to fellow members of a small group, or to people in any kind of ministry.
But the greatest benefit for you might be to help you understand your spiritual health through questions that no one has ever asked you before. It will force you to think about spiritual issues so that you can make better progress toward maturity. We recommend taking it yourself before giving it to others so you know what it is like for them.
Feel free to make as many copies as you want for as many people as you want. There are no copyright restrictions.
Here are some of the questions from the Spiritual Life Questionnaire:
1. On a scale of 1 to 10 how committed are you to doing whatever it takes to grow in Christ, with 1 being “not very committed”, 5 being “moderately committed”, and 10 being “fully and absolutely committed.”
______ Commitment to doing whatever it takes to grow in Christ.
2. On a scale of 1 to 10 how strong is your desire to be close to God, with 1 being “not very strong”, 5 being “moderately strong”, and 10 being “it consumes my thoughts and my life.”
______ Strength of love for God in Jesus and your desire to be close to Him.
3. On a scale of 1 to 10 how much have you been feeling the enjoyment of God’s presence over the last 30 days? (1 is none, 5 is moderate, 10 is elation) This is not a measure of maturity.
_____ Enjoyment level
4. Answer the following questions on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being “no development, ” 5 being “half as developed as possible in this life,” and 10 being “as developed as possible in this life.”
- _____ Victory over external, intentional sins (e.g. excess-shopping, substance abuse, pornography, unhealthy eating, lying to or misleading people, talking too much)
- _____ Victory over external emotionally impulsive sins (e.g. impulsive hurtful words, speaking or acting in anger, shading the truth, poor at listening, expressing opposition to authority or correction, acting impatiently)
- _____ Victory over internal intentional sins (e.g. choosing lust, choosing anger , holding grudges, choosing materialism, selfishness, neglect of good spiritual habits, )
- _____ Victory over internal ingrained sinfulness (e.g. prideful thinking, pride in one’s spiritual experiences or spiritual gifts or spiritual disciplines, fearfulness, insecurity, anxiety, unwanted lust, unwanted materialism, unwanted anger)
5. On a scale of 1 to 10 how strong is your average experience of each of the following over the last 60 days? (1 is not at all, 5 is strong enough to make my life somewhat difficult, 10 is almost unbearable.)
_____ Anxiety and/or fear
_____ Depression
_____ Loneliness
_____ Anger
_____ Hyperactivity or hyperactive thinking
_____ Bad physical health
_____ Bad eating patterns (e.g. too much, too little, binging, vomiting)
_____ Financial problems
_____ Emotional pain inflicted by one or more people in your life
Again, you can download it here Link to PDF of Spiritual Life Questionnaire . We hope the Spiritual Life Questionnaire will help you understand your spiritual health and we welcome any feedback you have (meatmature@gmail.com)!
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