Ten Commandment Diagnostic Questions

One of the great gifts of the Ten Commandments is insight into our own failures.

Like a doctor who tells us the bad, hard, and necessary news of a sickness diagnosed, the Ten Commandments show us the sickness-leading-to-death of our own sin.

For generations Christians have meditated on the Ten Commandments to consider their own life, and prepare for communion.

Here is my abbreviated list, one question per commandment, to get us going.

1. What am I afraid of?
2. How are my prayers?
3. What is my attitude towards worship?
4. What is my attitude toward authority?
5. Am I angry?
6. Am I chaste?
7. Am I greedy? Am I lazy?
8. Am I bitter?
9. & 10. Am I happy?

After all this, it is important to know that you are forgiven, that Jesus came for sinners.

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