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What is My Gospel? Important Survey

The following are survey questions that I have put together which helps a Christian to identify their particular gospel message. Every Christian has a gospel, even those who never preach or teach. If you are a Christian you have or are embracing a particular gospel.

Answer the following 17 questions as thoroughly and as succinctly as you possibly can. But if you do not have an confident answer for a question simply skip or say “I don’t know”, it is better to say “I don’t know” or ignore a question that than to try to come up with something that just sounds good but is not really part of what you believe. If the question seems foreign to you then that is ok to ignore, there are no wrong answers and don’t feel obligated to answer all 17.

With this survey e are trying to get at what is your currently embraced gospel. When you are done then cut and paste your responses into one to three paragraphs and that is a summary of your gospel. If you are willing then post these paragraph as a comment in this post below or email them to me. A Christian’s gospel is much more than a summary of how one gets into heaven. Much more!

Why did God create?

How did God create?

What happened in the garden of Eden between God, humanity and Satan?

Who is Satan? where is he? and what is he doing now?

Who was Abraham and the nation of Israel?

Who was Jesus of Nazareth? who is Jesus Christ now?

Why did Jesus Christ suffer and die? What did he accomplish?

Why did Jesus Christ rise again? (if you believe he did)

How does one become a Christian?

What is Jesus doing now?

What is the purpose of human governments today?

What is the church exactly?

What is the primary ministry of the church on earth today?

What is the purpose of gathering together for church?

What is the role of money in the church and in the Christian’s life?

What does the future hold long term for humanity and for God?

Why is our Gospel so Important?

Answering these questions thoroughly will help us to pinpoint the overall gospel which we have embraced or are currently embracing. The gospel which we have embraced or are embracing will have lasting impact on our Christian lives.

If our gospel is shallow and partial then so will our Christian walk be. If it is preoccupied with pet doctrines and theologies then so will our Christian walk be. If it is legalistic then so will we be. When our gospel is permissive and libertine, then so will we likely be permissive and morally loose in almost every aspect of our lives as Christians. When our gospel lacks understanding of the church then that will be our experience and expectations with church, and with its leadership.

“Tell me all your thoughts on God…and tell me am I very far?”

Dishwalla (1990s band)

Our Gospel – Our Life

Our particular gospel is probably one of the single most important things in our Christian walk. Yet few talk about this. We accept what we are taught or we backslide from it. Many of us expect to hear it over and over again throughout our lives as if that accomplishes something for us. But my experience is that Christians rarely move on and reconsider their gospel. Few press in and experience real and lasting discipleship and maturity. In my experiences most Christians view their own gospel as the answer to the “How do you get to heaven question?” And it is that, but it is also much more than that.

When we start to see and to summarize our specific gospel then we can begin to recognize holes in our gospel and our Christian foundation. And then God can (and maybe will), begin to help us to fill in those holes through study of scripture, through teachings from the Holy Spirit, and through the ministries of other Christians.

If you want to read more about the gospel of the kingdom click here: The Irresistible Glory of Jesus Christ or HERE: The Fruit Of Your Gospel

or watch one of my videos here:

Gospel of the Kingdom – before creation.

If you want to hear more about the gospel of the kingdom from a gifted teacher, I highly suggest that you buy and read this book by my favorite living author and Christian teacher Frank Viola: Insurgencebook.com

Please comment below your gospel summary paragraph, or email it to me at collierak@me.com

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Word of God Teller

All teachings and declarations of truth in the church was designed to have checks and balances. There should not be top-down, one-shepherd feeding many sheep the word of God. At least not beyond an initial phase of training and discipleship (maybe a year).

Periodic times of special teaching are fine, but this is rare and only by an equal member of the body. Or special teachings come by someone outside the body who come to help a group get through a problem. These equal members are not permanently above in some hierarchy over the other members. In all things there is to be equality. These are a few of the ways that bodies of Christ functioned in the New Testament.

A permanent class or office of “word of God teller” who receive tithes from to a large group of inactive “Word of God hearers.” Otherwise known as tithe payers, is just not scriptural…it is actually unbecoming a Christian fellowship. In whom Jesus himself dwells. I realize that is hard to hear by someone raised in a church system but it is true nonetheless.

Christians are equal and we work out the mind of Christ together in back and forth spiritual fellowship and conversation. All Christians are intended to be word of God tellers and word of God hearers.

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Secrets to Accelerating Learning Curves

 

 

This is part 2 of the Lagging Learning Curve Content, read part 1 here

Corporate learning curves are a complicated and sometimes confusing mechanism of corporate innovation. Multitudes of smart employees do not necessarily translate into effective innovations or prosperous companies.

Every innovation based organization can accelerate their corporate learning curve  by implementing the following two project leadership initiatives.

  1. The first initiative is to create one project document that all team members contribute to, a document where all learning’s are documented ongoing.  Call this document a learning’s library and refer to this often, feed monthly reporting information into this document and heavily reward employees who spontaneously report into this document.  Too much information is lost in the monthly report then disappears into “server heaven.”
  2. The second initiative is to create a culture of teaching. Most professionals enjoy teaching other people, teaching creates technical curiosity, teaching often creates a desire to impress and teaching is a great way to stimulate collaboration.  A culture of teaching will bring the corporate learning curve closer to the individual curves. Teaching will extract the intellectual capital from the minds of employees. This wealth of knowledge in the minds of your people is a valuable asset that a company may or may not be harnessing.

How does your company or department organization accelerate learning curves?

This content is explained in greater detail in my upcoming book.  The book is about healthy innovation and creativity in a corporate setting.  Please sign up for my email list for insider announcements about the launch of this book. 

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