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📝 Worksheet 12.5: Spiritual Destiny and Lifelong Growth Plan

Course: Introduction to Spiritual Growth

Purpose of This Worksheet

This worksheet helps you bring the whole course together. You will reflect on spiritual destiny, death, heaven, resurrection, the spiritual body, and your lifelong growth plan as an embodied soul before God.

Spiritual growth does not end when this course ends. The Christian walk continues. This worksheet helps you name your next faithful steps.

Part 1: Facing Spiritual Destiny Honestly

1. What do you believe happens when a Christian dies?

Write your answer in your own words.

My reflection:

2. What emotions come up when you think about death?

Check any that apply.

☐ Fear
☐ Peace
☐ Confusion
☐ Sadness
☐ Hope
☐ Avoidance
☐ Curiosity
☐ Grief
☐ Longing to be with Christ
☐ Concern for family or loved ones
☐ Other: ______________________________________

Now write a few sentences about why you chose those words.

My reflection:

3. What does it mean to belong to Christ in life and in death?

Read Romans 14:8:

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

My reflection:

Part 2: Heaven, Being with Christ, and Resurrection Hope

4. How has your understanding of heaven grown?

Before this course, did you tend to think of heaven mostly as a place, a feeling, a reward, an escape, or being with Christ?

Before this course, I tended to think of heaven as:

Now I understand heaven more as:

5. Why is “being with Christ” such deep comfort?

Read Philippians 1:23:

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

What comfort does this give you?

My reflection:

6. What is the difference between being with Christ after death and the final resurrection?

Complete the sentences.

When a believer dies, the believer is:

The final Christian hope is:

This matters because:

Part 3: The Spiritual Body and the Organic Human

7. What does “spiritual body” mean?

Read 1 Corinthians 15:42–44:

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.

A spiritual body does not mean:

A spiritual body means:

8. How does resurrection hope honor the body?

From the Organic Human perspective, a person is an embodied soul. The body is not a prison for the soul. The body is part of God’s created design.

How does resurrection hope change the way you view your body now?

My reflection:

9. Where do you need to honor your embodied life more faithfully?

Check any that apply.

☐ Rest
☐ Food and health habits
☐ Sexual holiness
☐ Emotional honesty
☐ Grief and lament
☐ Work rhythms
☐ Worship with the body
☐ Care for aging or weakness
☐ Addiction recovery or self-control
☐ Receiving help from others
☐ Physical presence with people
☐ Other: ______________________________________

Choose one area and write a next faithful step.

One area I need to honor more faithfully:

My next faithful step:

Part 4: Grieving with Hope

10. What does it mean to grieve with hope?

Read 1 Thessalonians 4:13:

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Christian grief does not mean:

Christian grief does mean:

11. Who in your life needs gentle resurrection hope?

Think of someone facing grief, aging, illness, death, fear, or loss.

Person or situation I am thinking about:

How I could offer presence, prayer, Scripture, or practical care:

12. What words should a Christian leader avoid when someone is grieving?

Write three statements that may sound spiritual but could hurt someone who is grieving.

Now write three better statements that offer truth with tenderness.

Part 5: Reviewing the Whole Course Journey

13. Creation: I am a living soul

What does it mean that God created you as an embodied soul?

My reflection:

14. Fall: I am affected by sin, but not abandoned

Where do you still see shame, hiding, blame, fear, or disordered desire in your life?

My reflection:

15. Redemption: Christ opened the way back to God

How has Jesus Christ become more central to your understanding of spiritual growth?

My reflection:

16. Rebirth: I am born from above

What does new identity in Christ mean to you personally?

My reflection:

Part 6: The Eight Elements of My Christian Walk

Rate each element from 1 to 5.

1 = Needs attention
2 = Weak but beginning
3 = Present but inconsistent
4 = Growing steadily
5 = Strong and life-giving

17. Which one element needs your attention first?

Element:

Why this matters now:

My next faithful step this week:

Part 7: The Seven Connections of My Walk with God

Rate each connection from 1 to 5.

1 = Needs healing or attention
2 = Weak but beginning
3 = Present but inconsistent
4 = Growing steadily
5 = Strong and life-giving

18. Which one connection needs your attention first?

Connection:

Why this matters now:

My next faithful step this week:

Part 8: Spiritual Fruit Review

Read Galatians 5:22–23:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

19. Which fruit of the Spirit is most visibly growing in you?

Fruit:

Where I see this growth:

20. Which fruit of the Spirit needs more attention?

Fruit:

Where I need the Spirit’s help:

Part 9: Discernment Review

21. Creational discernment

What whole-person factors do you need to pay attention to in your life right now?

Check any that apply.

☐ Spiritual
☐ Physical
☐ Emotional
☐ Relational
☐ Family
☐ Work or vocation
☐ Financial
☐ Moral
☐ Legal or responsibility-related
☐ Communication
☐ Community or institutional
☐ Rest and rhythm
☐ Calling
☐ Faith and worship
☐ Other: ______________________________________

What is one situation where you need to see the whole picture more wisely?

Situation:

22. Redemptive discernment

What decision, burden, calling, or relationship do you need to bring before Scripture, prayer, the Holy Spirit, and wise counsel?

My discernment area:

What Scripture may speak into this?

Who could give wise counsel?

What would humility require?

What would love require?

What is one obedient next step?

Part 10: Calling, Gifts, and Mission

23. Where do you sense God calling you to serve?

Check any that apply.

☐ Family
☐ Church
☐ Soul Center
☐ Workplace
☐ Business
☐ Teaching
☐ Mentoring
☐ Chaplaincy
☐ Coaching
☐ Officiating
☐ Pastoral ministry
☐ Youth or children
☐ Seniors
☐ The grieving
☐ The overlooked or forgotten
☐ The unchurched or non-Christian world
☐ Other: ______________________________________

Write a few sentences about this calling.

My reflection:

24. What spiritual gifts, abilities, experiences, or burdens has God entrusted to you?

Gifts or abilities:

Life experiences God may use:

Burdens or people I care about:

25. Draft a spiritual mission statement

Use this pattern if helpful:

By God’s grace, I want to serve __________________________ by __________________________ so that __________________________.

My draft mission statement:

Part 11: Lifelong Spiritual Growth Plan

26. My next 30 days

In the next 30 days, I will take these three faithful steps:

27. My next 6 months

In the next 6 months, I want to grow in:

Spiritual walk:

Relationships:

Calling or ministry:

Discernment:

Hope and spiritual destiny:

28. My next year

One year from now, I hope to be more faithful in:

Part 12: My Spiritual Growth Handbook Summary

Write a brief summary of what this course has taught you.

29. My understanding of spiritual growth

Spiritual growth is:

30. My identity before God

I am:

31. My hope in Christ

Because Christ died and rose again:

32. My resurrection hope

Because resurrection is coming:

Final Commitment Prayer

Lord Jesus,

I belong to you in life and in death.

You created me as a living soul, an embodied person before you.
You know my weakness, my sin, my fear, my grief, my desires, my calling, and my hope.

Thank you for redeeming me.
Thank you for giving me new life.
Thank you for walking with me by your Spirit.

Teach me to grow as a whole person before you.
Help me practice Scripture, prayer, worship, confession, Communion, community, service, obedience, rest, and remembrance.

Help my walk with you become visible in my personal life, close relationships, family, friends, church or Soul Center, kingdom relationships, and witness to the world.

Grow your fruit in me.
Teach me discernment.
Clarify my calling.
Awaken my gifts for service.
Give me courage to face death with hope.

I trust that death will not have the final word.
I trust that I will be with you.
I trust that resurrection is coming.
I trust that you will make all things new.

Make my life a faithful witness until that day.

Amen.