Use these questions as a guide for your session. It is not necessary to ask every question, but at least 3 questions from 1-10, and 3 questions from 11-21.

1. How has God blessed you this week? What went right?

2. What problem consumed your thoughts this week? What went wrong?

3. God’s Word: Have you Memorized this week’s verse? 

(How many days? How long? Why not? Will you next week?) 

4.  What has God been teaching you?

5.  Prayer: Describe your prayers – for yourself, others, praise, worship, confession, gratitude, supplication.

6.  How is your relationship with Christ evolving?

7.  Temptation: How were you tempted this week? How did you respond?

8.  Confession: Do you have any unconfessed sin in your life?

9.  Church: Did you worship in church this week? Was your faith in Jesus strengthened? Was he honored?

10. Witness: Have you shared your faith? In what ways? How can you improve?

11.  FAMILY

a.) Wife: How is it going with your wife? (time, meaningful, conversation, attitudes, intimacy, disappointments, irritations, her relationship with Christ)

b.) Children: How are your children? (giving encouragement, quantity and quality time, values education, spiritual welfare)

12.  Finances: How are your finances doing? (debt, sharing, saving, spending, stewardship)

13. Time: How have you invested your time around the house?

14.  Job: How are things going? (career progress, relationships, temptations, stress, problems, working too much)

15. God’s Will: Do you feel you are in center of God’s will & sense His peace?

16. Thought Life: What are you wrestling with in secret?

17.  Service: What have you done for someone else this week which can’t be repaid? (the poor, encouragement, mercy, service to others)

18.  Priorities: Are your priorities in the right order?

19.  Integrity: Is your moral and ethical behavior as it should be?

20.  High Risk: How are you doing in your personal high-risk area?

21.  Transparency: Is the “visible” you and the “real” you consistent in our relationship? (if not, in what ways?)

Close with prayer. 

Discuss other concerns of the week.

©1996 Portions adapted from The Man in the Mirror (Zondervan)