- Pray for one another
- Speak about scripture and new insights it has afforded
- Ask a few fellowship questions of each other, such as:
- What is the best thing that has happened to you since our last meeting?
- Do you have any unusual burdens or troubles this week?
- How is your witness?
- Where have you seen the Lord at work lately?
- What has the Lord been teaching you recently?
- Have you had any evangelistic opportunities lately?
- Have you had any obvious answers to prayer recently?
- What is an area of growth in your life right now?
- What are you passionate about right now?[2]
- As the relationship builds, ask personal accountability questions of each other, such as:
- Have you been with a member of the opposite sex in a way that might be considered compromising or questionable?
- Have any of your financial dealings lacked integrity?
- Have you exposed yourself to any sexually explicit material?
- Have you spent adequate time in Bible reading and prayer?
- Have you been meditating on, and not just reading, Scripture?
- Have you given priority time to your family (if applicable)?
- Have you fulfilled the mandates of your calling?
- Have you lied to me in any of these answers?[3]
- Ask personal goal questions of each other. These are questions you may develop for yourself based upon individual goals (personal, physical, spiritual, relational, etc.) you have set for yourself, and for which you desire the encouragement of accountability.
More Possible Questions:
1. How is your ministry?
2. Where has God answered your prayers this week?
3. How has your joy been?
4. What nuggets have you received from Scripture?
5. Have you had any evangelistic opportunities?
6. How have your devotions been?
7. Have you been a good steward of your time?
8. Have you loved your wife like Christ loves the church and does she know it?
9. Have you been faithful to your wife (physically/mentally/prayer for her/devotions with her/etc.)
10. Have you trusted in the Spirit alone for your ministry/sanctification?
11. Have you worked hardily as for the Lord at work and witnessed to that?
12. Have you taken care of your body?
[1] Much of this material is taken from Donald S. Whitney’s Syllabus for Personal Spiritual Disciplines, available at http://biblicalspirituality.org/class/40150syl.doc
[2] From Donald S. Whitney, Simplify Your Spiritual Life (Colorado Springs, Colo.: NavPress, 2003), p. 193.
[3] Adapted from a list attributed to Chuck Swindoll in Chuck Colson, The Body (Dallas: Word Books, 1992), p. 131.
