Vine & Fig Tree Worker's Questionnaire


General

1. How many brothers and sisters do you have?

2. What number child are you in your family?

3. What advantages or disadvantages have you seen in your position in the family?

4. Do you often wish you had older brothers or sisters?

5. With which brother or sister do you have the closest relationship?

6. Do you wish you grew up in a larger or smaller family?

7. What one thing would you like to see changed in your family?

8. What do you appreciate most about each brother and sister?


9. Do you know what your name means?

10. Why were you given this name?

11. When were you born?

12. Where were you born?

13. Where did you grow up?

14. How often did you move as you were growing up?

15. What special traditions does your family have?

16. What nationalities are represented among your forefathers?

17. What advantages or disadvantages do you see in your growing up experience?

18. If you had your choice, would you want to live in any other country?


19. Why do you think God made you the gender He did?

20. When you were born, were your parents expecting a boy or a girl?

21. What do you think are the special responsibilities and privileges of men?

22. What do you think are the special responsibilities and privileges of women?

23. What do you think about a mother working outside the home?

24. What do you think about a father working outside the home?

25. What bugs you the most about women?

26. What bugs you the most about men?


27. Are your parents still alive?

28. What are their first names?

29. What is their anniversary?

30. Do your parents know the meaning of their names?

31. Where did your parents grow up?

32. In what church did they grow up?

33. When did they become Christians?

34. What was your father's occupation?

35. Have you lived in quite a few different places?

36. When did your ancestors first come to this country?

37. Do you know much about your family heritage?

38. What did your grandparents do?


39. What advantages do you see in being born into your race?

40. What disadvantages do you see in being born into your race?

41. How do you view other races?

42. Do you see any special significance in the Jewish race?

43. What different races do you have in your family tree?


44. What schools did you attend?

45. What was your favorite subject?

46. Would you say that you are mechanically inclined?

47. Do you like using computers?

48. Do you enjoy reading?

49. What books have you read more than once?

50. What music do you listen to the most?

51. What has been your favorite job?

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53. Do you go to church?

54. How long have you gone there?

55. Does your whole family go?


56. What are your hobbies?

57. Do you play any musical instruments?

58. Do you belong to any clubs or groups?

59. When you have free time, what do you like to do with it?

60. What is your favorite time of the year?


61. Have you had a life-long health problem?

62. What major illnesses have you had?

63. What are some of the medical tendencies in your family?

64. Have you ever had an experience where you almost died?

65. Have you experienced the death of a family member or close friend?


More Specific

66. What is your happiest childhood memory?

67. Did your parents have a special hope for your life?

68. What was the first thing you wanted to be when you grew up?

69. When they were young, what did your parents want to do when they grew up?

70. What is your goal for next year?

71. What is your goal for the year 2001?

72. What is your goal for the year 2020?

73. When you reach the end of your life, what do you want to look back on and say that you have accomplished?


74. What was the most important factor in making your family happy?

75. How did you get your present job?

76. If you could have one wish right now, what would it be?

77. What was God's purpose in creating you?

78. What event(s) brought you closest to God?

79. What is your greatest spiritual gift?

80. What helps you most in your efforts to be more like Jesus?

81. What gives you confidence that you are loved by God?

82. If you had the power to change anything about your physical appearance, would you use that power?

83. How has your mother most encouraged your faith?

84. How did your father encourage you to seek God?

85. Is there anyone who hates you?

86. Is there anyone you hate?

87. Are you sick a lot?

88. Is there anyone who feels you have wronged them?

89. Is there anyone you feel has wronged you?

90. If there is a person you feel has wronged you, have you wronged them in a lesser way?

91. Have you achieved all that you wanted to achieve at this point in your life?

92. What has been the most difficult experience that you have had in your life so far?

93. When was the last time you had to work to show deference ( = limit your own freedoms in order not to offend the tastes of someone God called you to serve)?

94. What rights do you feel you have?

95. Has someone's trust in you ever been hurt by your deception or lack of truthfulness?

96. When was the last time you had a feeling of confidence (boldness) that what you had to say or do was right or just in the sight of God?

97. Was the feeling justified?

98. Have you "cleared the record" of all those who have wronged you? (forgiveness)

99. How have you learned to be a channel through which God can love others through you?

100. When was the last time you had a real problem guiding an important truth around someone else's mental roadblocks?

101. Have you ever been unaware of what was going on around you and missed an opportunity to serve someone in need?

102. What place has hospitality played in your life?

103. Who has been the greatest model of generosity in your life?

104. Do you visualize each task as a special opportunity from God?

105. If you make a promise and find it requires an expenditure of time and effort which was completely unexpected, will you keep the promise anyway?

106. Is there or has there been a "thorn" in your life which God has used to teach you to patiently accept a difficult situation, to accept the situation as one from God, and without giving Him a deadline to remove it?

107. Is it easy for you to organize yourself and your surroundings so that you can carry out God's assignments easily?

108. Did your mother encourage you to recognize and complete tasks that needed to be done before you were asked to do them?

109. Who is most responsible for who you are and what you have? (You? God? Others?)


Questions to Prompt Spiritual Growth

110. What were the events that led up to your becoming a Christian?

111. Since that time, have you had doubts about whether or not you were a Christian?

112. The Word "Gospel" means "good news." What is "the good news?"

113. What areas of your life are you keeping from God?

114. What does Romans 12:1-2 mean to you?


115. If I were to ask your parents, would they say that you are obedient to their authority?


116. Can you look every person in the eye and know that no one can point a finger at you and say, "You wronged me and have never tried to make it right"?

117. How many people stand between you and a clear conscience?


118. Has anyone ever deeply hurt you or really wronged you?

119. Have you been able to respond to their wrongs with a spirit of forgiveness and love?

120. Do you know what causes persistent bitterness?

121. Do you know what steps to take to turn bitterness into forgiveness?


122. Do you feel that you have a problem from time to time with your temper?

123. Do you feel that you have certain personal "rights?"


124. Each of us faces battlefields in our sexual lives. First, there is the battlefield of impure thoughts. Then there is the battlefield of impure actions. If we lose these battles, we face the battlefield of impure habits. How many battlefields are you fighting in your own personal life?

125. Are you at the point where you would like to experience consistent victory in these battles?

126. The Bible uses the word "concupiscence." Do you know what this means?


Seminar Questions