The Christian life is meant to be one of growth and progress. We are even commanded in 2 Pet. 3:18, "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." How can we know that we are growing in grace?
Encourage your group members to ask themselves these 10 questions to make sure they are still growing:
1. Are you more thirsty for God than ever before?
2. Are you more and more loving?
3. Are you more sensitive to and aware of God than ever before?
4. Are you governed more and more by God's Word?
5. Are you concerned more and more with the physical and spiritual needs of others?
6. Are you more and more concerned with the Church and the Kingdom of God?
7. Are the disciplines of the Christian life more and more important to you?
8. Are you more and more aware of your sin?
9. Are you more and more willing to forgive others?
10. Are you thinking more and more of heaven and of being with the Lord Jesus?
Taken from "10 Questions to Make Sure You're Still Growing" by Donald Whitney (Discipleship Journal, Issue 97, January/February 1997). Donald Whitney is also the author of Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health.
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