7 Gritty Questions
Question #1
Question #1
Question #1
- What crisis or mess in my life is forcing me to ask, “Who is in control?”
- Purpose: This question draws my attention to my crises and moments of desperation where God’s redemptive work begins. It roots my story in reality, acknowledging my pain and anxiety.
Question #2
Question #1
Question #1
- How do I hope when crisis surrounds me, and what do I expect God to do when He has to come through?
- Purpose: This invites me to reflect on the hope and expectation that drives my faith even in hard times.
Question #3
Question #1
Question #3
- What are the things I control that push back chaos and bring order to life?
- Purpose: This question reminds me of my agency in reflecting Jesus by bringing order to my life and community through discipline and obedience.
Question #4
Question #4
Question #3
- Does Jesus see Himself in the WARS of my life—my words, actions, relationships and situations?
- Purpose: This question bridges the cosmic and the mundane. It asks me to examine my daily life and whether my worship reflects Christ in all areas.
Question #5
Question #4
Question #5
- Do I allow God to “make healthy what He doesn’t heal?”
- Purpose: This question focuses on how God’s power and story are at work, even in my unresolved pain.
Question #6
Question #4
Question #5
- Whose life will be influenced if they know my story, and who will suffer if I keep silent?
- Purpose: This question makes me feel urgent about sharing my story. It reminds me that my testimony has the power to change my life and the lives of others.
Question #7
Question #7
Question #7
- Does my life awaken a longing in others for Jesus, and how does my story fit into Jesus’ epic and heroic “aJesusStory?”
- Purpose: This question ties everything together, prompting me to see my life as part of God’s cosmic heroic narrative and inspiring me to declare my story.
About “aJesusStory” Project
Our Purpose
We work to help people experience worship as gritty living that produces a heroic story about Jesus.
What We Do
We reimagine how gritty people can experience Jesus and take their worship public as storytellers with media that compliment and level up church and private worship times.
The Problem
We lose God’s heroic plot line and our iconic identity when we treat worship only as moments we experience, not a mission we live—not a witness we release.
YOUR “aJesusStory” Project
Love. Die. Repeat.
The Great Hero, Jesus Christ, lived the first “aJesusStory.” We follow His heroic example when we—Love. Die. Repeat. Yes, we make music and do “church work” together. But souls and culture are at stake. There is no “plan B”—and the Gospel does not share itself. God the Father, the Great Storyteller, has chosen to need heroic worshipers to shape and release “aJesusStory”—That’s us.
Tip of the Spear
You author your “aJesusStory” when you pour into others by putting yourself on display—when you work to identify and creatively surrender your gritty story with humility to tell a heroic story about Jesus. “aJesusStory” is God’s rescue plan. It is the foundation of heroic worship and your heart as a heroic worshiper. It makes you a Worship Hero. Worship Heroes lead others to freedom and safety and their “aJesusStory” is the tip of the spear.
God’s Heroic Plot Line
We lose God’s heroic plot line and our iconic identity when we treat worship as moments we experience, not a mission we live—a witness we release—“aJesusStory.” Instead, our goal as heroic worshipers is to become a gritty means to His heroic end, not perfectly but consistently. So start capturing your gritty lyrics, drawings, images, thoughts and stories in your “aJesusStory” journal (below). Make your “aJesusStory” the mission of your heroic worship.