Highway to Heaven

Highway to Heaven  

or, 

RESOLUTIONS 2016 – “H-list”

 

Intro:

1)      Checklist for spiritual growth

2)      Wesley’s (John, Charles) had a method, a checklist – Holiness Club questions https://jimmorrow.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/holiness-john-wesleys-holy-club-questions/

3)      Pilot has a checklist (“Jesus Is My Co-pilot”?!)

4)      At work, LOTO lists at work to prevent injury, oversight

5)      “Army deployment has pre and post checklist…” John D.

6)      “Basically, this is an itemized list of what it means to be ‘Christ-like’?!“ Anthony D.

List of fundamental Christian character traits and self-image visions:

1.       Humility – “think of others as better…”

2.       Honesty – with myself, to others (cf. “hypocrite”?!)

3.       Helplessness/need/dependence

4.       Hopefulness – “my hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus’ blood and righteousness..”

5.       Hunger – for righteousness, for God, “as the deer pants…”

6.       Homesickness –“…all I know is I’m not home yet; this is not where I belong…”

7.       Honor – act like a son of the King!

8.       Holiness – be “other” than the “world”

9.       Helper/service

10.   Healer/peacemaker

11.   Healthy/health-conscious (spiritual) cf. vegan health nut

12.   Hearing – “ears to hear…”  hymn- Open My Eyes

13.   Herald – proclaiming Jesus

14.   Holy-man – guru: prayer, meditation; cf. Kung-fu show

15.   Hallelujah – praising God

16.   Happy – positive; joy; Beatitudes

17.   Harmony – “live a peace with all men…”; “stewards of the garden…”

18.   Harmless – “live by sword, die by sword”; road-rage bird-flipping lane-switching

19.   Heart – love has to be on this list, specifically!

20.   Halt/hold-horses – patience, waiting, endurance

 

Making all this possible is the Holy Spirit!