Purpose Driven Life Health Assessment
Every parent is looking for certain things to happen as their children mature (turn over on their own, crawl, talk, walk, etc.). In the same way, there is the expectation that as we mature there will be spiritual growth. And yet, for many people there is little change or growth after conversion. This prompted the writer of Hebrews to observe:
How would you evaluate your own life? I know in many ways I’m still battling some of the same things day after day and year after year. Which makes a passage like Hebrews 5 a challenging one.
If I were attempting to lose weight it would be clear what to do. I might need to eat less. Or eat differently. Or exercise more. There is certainly a way to evaluate my physical condition and then make changes.
Is there a way to evaluate my spiritual life? To bring things into perspective so that I can see where to start?
The Purpose Driven Life Health Assessment was developed to help individuals evaluate their lives according the the five purposes:
- Worship: Planned for God’s Pleasure
- Fellowship: Formed for God’s family
- Discipleship: Created to become like Christ
- Ministry: Shaped for serving God
- Evangelism: Made for a mission
I’ve found the Purpose Driven Life Health Assessment to be a very helpful way of starting a process of thinking about my spiritual life. In addition, it can provide a great snapshot of a group of people. Asking everyone in a group to complete the assessment and then adding up the scores and dividing the total by the number of people in the group can be helpful in choosing what to study next.