How to Identify Your Idols
David Powlison's list of questions in Seeing With New Eyes are good for a diagnostic test on our lives now again to help us identify idols.
- What do I worry about most?
- What, if I failed or lost it, would cause me to feel that I did not even want to live?
- What do I use to comfort myself when things go bad or get difficult?
- What do I do to cope? What are my release valves? What do I do to feel better?
- What preoccupies me? What do I daydream about?
- What makes me feel the most self-worth? Of what am I the proudest? For what do I want to be known?
- What do I lead with in conversations?
- Early on what do I want to make sure that people know about me?
- What prayer, unanswered, would make me seriously think about turning away from God?
- What do I really want and expect out of life? What would make me happy?
- What is my hope for the future?
From The Gospel Driven Church blog: www.gospeldrivenchurch.blogspot.com