The beginning of the Lenten journey: Holy Club Questions

Engraving of a meeting of the Holy Club

These are the 22 questions the members of the Oxford Holy Club (begun by Charles Wesley) asked themselves every day in their private devotions more than 250 years ago. They are presented here to help guide your Lenten pilgrimage:

-Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am? In other words, am I a hypocrite?
-Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?

-Do I confidentially pass on to another what was told to me in confidence?

-Can I be trusted?

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

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

-Did the Bible live in me today?

-Do I give it time to speak to me every day?

-Am I enjoying prayer?

-When did I last speak to someone else about my faith?

-Do I pray about the money I spend?

-Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?

-Do I disobey God in anything?

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

-Am I defeated in any part of my life?

-Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy, or distrustful?

-How do I spend my spare time?

-Am I proud?

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

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

-Is Christ real to me?