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Holiness & Spiritual Accountability - John Wesley's Holy Club's 22 Questions

6/30/2010

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In 1729, while John Wesley was a student at Oxford, he started a club with his brother Charles, which was mockingly dubbed “The Holy Club” by some of his fellow collegians.  The club members rigorously self-examined themselves everyday by asking the following 22 questions:

1.   Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am?  In other words, am I a hypocrite?

2.  Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?

3. 
Do I confidentially pass on to others what has been said to me in confidence?

4. 
Can I be trusted?

5.  Am I a slave to dress, friends, work or habits?

6.  Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?

7.  Did the Bible live in me today?

8.  Do I give the Bible time to speak to me every day?

9.  Am I enjoying prayer?

10. When did I last speak to someone else of my faith? 

11. Do I pray about the money I spend?

12. Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?

13. Do I disobey God in anything?

14. Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?

15.    Am I defeated in any part of my life?

16.    Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy or distrustful?

17.    How do I spend my spare time?

18.    Am I proud?

19.    Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?

20.    Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold a resentment toward or disregard? If so, what am I doing about it?

21.    Do I grumble or complain constantly?

22.    Is Christ real to me? 


Some of the other members of the club were John Gambold, who became a Bishop of the Moravian Church; James Hervey, who became a noted Christian writer; John Clayton, who became a distinguished Anglican churchman; Benjamin Ingham, who became a famous English Evangelist; and George Whitefield who God used mightily in both the 18th century Great Awakening in America and the Evangelical Revival in England.
 
 
In a letter to her son John, dated June 8, 1725, Susanna Wesley defined for him what she classified as sin.  She wrote "Take this rule: whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself."

The preceding words definitely give pause for thought and reminds me of what the Apostle Paul said in Philippians 3:7-14:
  

7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Pressing Toward the Goal
  
12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

John Wesley and the other members of his club were on to something.  By regularly examining themselves and the motives of their hearts they were able to keep their heart-flames burning red hot for the King of Glory!  Interestingly, each of these club members made a tremendous and eternal impact on this world for Jesus Christ. 





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    Helen B. Marshall

    When I was 19 years old I was at a garage sale and found a wooden plaque with a sail boat carved on it with Jeremiah 29:13 and the first part of verse 14 written on it which said, "And ye shall seek Me and find Me when ye shall search for Me with all your heart..."

    I can still remember how I felt reading this verse for the first time.  The concept of finding God intrigued me.  I just didn’t understand why He would require so much of me or anyone else for that matter, simply to find Him.

    So I bought the plaque and placed it in a prominent place every where I lived, in my college dorm room, my first apartment, and each successive apartment, my first home. 

    Finally, 11 years later, when I was 30, I embarked on a whole-hearted journey to find out what this verse meant - the seeking and the searching for a God who was willing to be found.  Little did I know how this verse would dramatically impact and forever change my life.

    It is now 37 years later and I'm still seeking and searching for Him with my whole heart.  I have to tell you, I have loved and hold dear everything I have found!

    This blog is about the depth and the width and the length and the height of my journey into Christ and how I’ve been found by Him. I believe the journey I've undertaken has been a sacred trust granted to me by Him.

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