The Holy Club

“But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: ‘Be holy, because I am holy.’”  1Peter 1:15,16 

In the year 1729, John and Charles Wesley, along with a handful of other Oxford students, formed a group which was known mockingly as “The Holy Club”.  The members were devoted to holiness and serving others—many of them were used by God in significant ways.  These are 22 questions the members of John Wesley's Holy Club asked each day in their private devotions.  As we ask God to search us each day, why not ask ourselves the same questions?

1. Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I'm 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 what was told 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 it time to speak to me everyday?
9. Am I enjoying prayer?
10. When did I last speak to someone else about 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 I am doing about it?
21. Do I grumble or complain constantly?
22. Is Christ real to me?