{"id":35989,"date":"2021-07-02T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=35989"},"modified":"2021-07-02T00:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:44:55","slug":"ten-questions-to-diagnose-your-spiritual-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=35989","title":{"rendered":"Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been reviewing books for a long time now\u2014long enough that some books I reviewed shortly after their release are now being re-released in anniversary editions. Such is the case with Donald Whitney\u2019s <em>Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health<\/em>. First published in 2001, it has now been released in an updated edition for its twentieth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney writes downstream of the Puritans who were commonly known as \u201cphysicians of the soul,\u201d and says that \u201cin our day, as in [the Puritans\u2019], the timeless process of discerning one\u2019s <em>spiritual<\/em> health involves questions and tests. My purpose in writing these pages is to act as a physician of the soul, asking questions and suggesting spiritual tests that can, by the help of the Holy Spirit, enable you to self-diagnose your spiritual health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book, now as then, is framed around 10 big questions meant to challenge Christians with the state of their spiritual health and development. They are, in order:<\/p>\n<p>  Do you thirst for God? Are you governed increasingly by God\u2019s Word? Are you more loving? Are you more sensitive to God\u2019s presence? Do you have a growing concern for the spiritual and temporal needs of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reviewing books for a long time now\u2014long enough that some books I reviewed shortly after their release are now being re-released in anniversary editions. Such is the case with Donald Whitney\u2019s Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health. First published in 2001, it has now been released in an updated edition for its twentieth anniversary. Whitney writes downstream of the Puritans who were commonly known as \u201cphysicians of the soul,\u201d and says that \u201cin our day, as \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":35992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854,96],"class_list":["post-35989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","tag-sanctification","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/hush-naidoo-yo01Z-9HQAw-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35994,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35989\/revisions\/35994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}