𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬

I encourage you, friends, to reflect upon these incisive questions:

𝗜𝗳 the early church had been as committed to Jesus as we are today, would the Gospel have reached us?

𝗛𝗼𝘄 deep are we willing to go into Christ?

𝗪𝗵𝘆 does the Holy Spirit seem to lead us primarily into what is safe and comfortable when Jesus told us to daily deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him?

𝗪𝗵𝘆 does the will of God so frequently perfectly coincide with what cushions our cross?

𝗜𝗳 our lives were the only Gospel people ever witnessed, would they conclude that Jesus is worthy of everything?

𝗪𝗵𝘆 did Paul say, "To live is Christ; to die is gain"?

𝗪𝗵𝘆 did Paul labor in birth pangs until Christ was formed in the church? I would rather personally know what Paul meant when he said, "I labor in birth until Christ is formed in you," than to know doctrine.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 did Paul conclude the list of his bodily suffering for Christ's sake with: "Besides these things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches." Do you share this deep concern?

𝗪𝗵𝘆 is Christianity resisting all those wicked things we love and performing all those righteous things we hate?

𝗜𝗳 the cost of following Jesus suddenly became the same as it was in the first century, would you still be following Him tomorrow?

𝗜𝗳 Christ evaluated your priorities instead of your profession, what would He say you truly worship?

𝗜𝗳 your prayers were removed from your life, what would actually change?

𝗜𝗳 you were given a large sum of money, what would you do with it? If you were given a million dollars, would you already know where to spend it for the Kingdom? If not, why not?

𝗜𝗳 Jesus called you to leave everything today, what would be hardest for you to surrender?

𝗜𝗳 someone examined your life instead of your testimony, would they conclude that heaven is your treasure?

𝗪𝗵𝘆 do we so readily believe that God is leading us into greater prosperity, yet so rarely believe He is leading us into greater sacrifice?

𝗜𝗳 eternity is truly near, why does so much of our life revolve around what will soon be burned away?

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 evidence convinces us that we love Jesus more than we love our own life?

𝗔𝗿𝗲 you building a kingdom that will outlive your body, or merely a life that will die with it?

𝗜𝗳 Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount in your church today, would you recognize His Christianity as your own?

𝗜𝗳 the apostles were discipled by the Christianity you practice, would they have turned the world upside down?

𝗪𝗵𝘆 does the narrow way so often resemble the broad way with a few religious activities added to it?

𝗜𝗳 Christ had loved you with the same measure of sacrifice that you love others, where would you be today?

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 the way we live actually make sense in the light of the Gospel we profess to believe?

𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 the apostles relate to our Christianity—our earnestness, our burden for lost souls, and our manner of life?

𝗪𝗲 say we believe in eternity—but what evidence do we use to ensure we are not deceiving ourselves?

𝗜𝗳 everything we own and every opportunity we have belongs to Christ, why do we treat so much of it as though it belongs to us?

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 our Christianity require the power of the Holy Spirit to explain it, or could it be lived just as well by someone who does not know God?

𝗜𝗳 the apostles examined our Christianity, would they recognize it as the faith once delivered to the saints?

𝗜𝗳 we truly believed that Jesus could return today, what would we stop doing, and what would we finally begin?

𝗪𝗵𝘆 do we find it so easy to make time for what is temporary, yet so difficult to make time for what is eternal?

𝗜𝗳 we were standing before Christ today, what would suddenly become meaningless that consumes so much of our attention now?

𝗜𝗳 our neighbors judged the value of Christ by the way we follow Him, what conclusion would they reach?

𝗜𝗳 we truly believed that every person we meet will spend eternity either with Christ or apart from Him, how could our indifference remain so reasonable to us?