A friend recently asked me to send him some good questions. He wanted to go deeper with a group of guys he regularly meets with. Below is the list I sent him. I thought it might be helpful to use with your Campaigners group, College Bible Study or maybe to just toss around on a Saturday night with friends. -Drew
- What keeps you up at night?
- What gets you up in the morning?
- What’s the most fun thing you’ve done lately?
- Who knows you the best?
- Who has authority to speak into your life?
- What is your relationship with your dad like?
- What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?
- What do you put your confidence in?
- What do you worry about most?
- When is a time when you’ve really screwed up/ a moment you’d rather forget?
- When is the last time you cried?
- When did you have a flash of creative brilliance?
- What are your strength-finders/Myers Briggs profiles and what does that accurately communicate about you?
- What’s your most significant accomplishment?
- What’s a book you’ve read that’s shaped you and how?
- What’s a movie or song that’s touched you deeply?
- What kind of shape are you in physically and why?
- How will you take better care of your health in this next year?
- When are you typically the least patient and with whom?
- Who has shown you undeserved grace?
- What angers you?
- Where are you giving your life away (serving/volunteering)?
- What gets you the most fired up?
- What are the things that nag at you?
- Who is a person you find interesting and why?
- What problem in the world do you want to help solve?
- How have you seen your appetites change over time?
- What appetite would you like God to decrease an increase in you?
- What have you been praying for this week?
- Identify 3 messes or clutter projects you’d like to clean up in the next 12 months?
- What are you doing today that if you stopped doing it, it would be missed by others?
- What are you trying to prove? Who are you trying to prove it to?
- What are you currently doing that requires faith/ What are you doing that could only be accomplished if God shows up?
- What do you use to comfort yourself when things go bad or get difficult?
- What makes you feel the most self-worth? Of what are you the proudest?
- What do you want others to think about when they think about you?
- What spiritual practices generated the greatest benefit to your soul?
- Describe “your most productively-satisfying work day” from waking up to falling asleep (at night).
- What grade would your kids currently give you on being a dad?
- What grade would your wife currently give you on being a husband?
- What grade would your parents currently give you on being a son?
- What grade would your siblings currently give you on being a brother?
- What grade would your friends currently give you on being a friend?
- What apprehensions do you have about the coming year?
- What major things do you want to accomplish this coming year?
- What one change could you make in your behavior that would help you to live in greater alignment with your values?
- Are you currently being a wise steward and generous with your money?
- What are your spiritual gifts and how are you currently using them?
- If you knew now that this would be your last year on earth, what would you do more of? Less of?
- What’s the biggest mental battle you face?