How’s Life?

A few weeks ago at our staff meeting we had a visitor named Jim Burns who has been a friend of Youth World for quite some time. Returning from a youth workers convention in Argentina he stopped with his wife to visit friends in Quito, many of them from Youth World. He brought a great challenge from Heb. 12:1-2 and shared the questions below as a means of evaluating how life is going and what needs to change.

- Is it working? Is life working?

- Am I focused?

- What do I need to do to sustain my life, family, health, and ministry over the long haul? (How am I doing? What’s holding me back?)

- Is my character submitted to Christ?

- Am I living a life of integrity?

- Is my pace of life sustainable?

- Is my heart for God shrinking or growing?

- What areas of my life do I need the courage to change? (What’s holding me back?)

- Do I have enough replenishing relationships? Do I invest in these relationships?

- Do I like the person I am becoming?

- Is the work of God I’m doing destroying the work of God in me?

- Am I giving my family only my emotional scraps?

~MWL