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 Spiritual Health SurveysDiagnose the condition of your leaders before disaster comes.
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Somewhere along the line doctors realized that one of the best ways to prevent serious illness was to have health checkups. These routine doctor visits can have a dramatic impact in diagnosing and preventing health crises. We in the church who are leaders of leaders also need to have a checkup mechanism, a way in which we can monitor the spiritual health of those leaders we oversee and care for. One excellent way to provide checkups is through surveys. When done well, a spiritual health survey can give you the information you need to respond promptly to any serious issue in a leader's life or ministry. Asking the Right Questions Is CriticalBusy leaders are, well, busy. The greatest survey in the world is useless if it is not taken seriously or, worse, ignored. For good results, make sure you focus on getting the right information succinctly. I like to divide a spiritual health survey into five key sections: (Note: Download a free sample of a spiritual health survey—Small Group Leader Health Survey) 1. Checking the TanksIf you've ever gone on a road trip, you know it's important to have your car tuned up before you leave. Yet a perfectly tuned car is useless if it has an empty gas tank. Without fuel you can't go anywhere. Critical to any spiritual health survey is a check of the tanks—the God tank and the body tank, specifically. I learned early on that not all issues that create unhealthy leaders are spiritual in origin. Some of us make the mistake of forgetting to ask about purely physical challenges. The first two questions ought to be focused on these issues: 1) how is your walk with God? and 2) how is your physical health? As I refined the process myself, I found it wise to give my leaders a little guidance with these questions. I used the illustration of a gas tank. Were they running on "full" or "empty" or somewhere in between? Instead of simply asking, "Are you spiritually healthy?" frame this survey question in a manner which requires a scaled response. This gives leaders the opportunity to rate themselves accordingly, and the response takes little time. Keys to Remember:
The ministry leaders you oversee are used to asking the people in their ministries to share their burdens and struggles. But seldom is the question turned back on them. As the leader of these leaders, you should give them time to share their own personal struggles and prayer requests. Stress to your leaders that these need not be ministry related, although they certainly can be. The point is for them to have space to share any concerns, challenges, joys, or dreams that they have—as ordinary people, not as one of your small group leaders or Sunday school teachers. Let them be themselves. |        
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bert seelman
SURVIVING SICKNESS AND SIN…….. your church? Is it teaching you how to survive in the world of spiritual warfare and helping you to live physically better as well. It is God’s design for us to live 70 years full of life to do a spiritual work. God does not give us a request, without giving us what we need to do it! If you are sick, seeing physicians, then your church is “not” about the whole person and is probably not even giving you enough spiritually. How can we do the work God asked, if we do not have physical health too? Sin is sickness to the soul, like sickness is sin to the body! Healing the spiritual, the physical….it is in the bible The ordinance for healing Exodus 15: 26 if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all the statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord that healeth thee. Healing
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