The words of Job chapter 29 force the fingers of your right hand to ball-up into a fist and rise up into the air as if there is a pressing desire to proclaim a victory

{yes or no}

You seriously wonder if the problem resides with you, because, whereas you are deeply troubled by the state of the Church, everyone else around you seems completely fine?

{yes or no}

You do not measure a man by the number of his degrees, the size of his church, or the quantity of his book sales, but simply by the content of his life and by the substance of his message?

{yes or no}

the notion of an all-night prayer meeting actually sounds kind of fun?

{yes or no}

it makes complete sense that, if you are going to die, you might as well die a martyr for Jesus Christ?

{yes or no}

when names such as Knox, Brainerd, Tozer, Spurgeon, and Ravenhill  come up in conversation, your soul beams with enthusiasm and your eyes alight with fire?

{yes or no}

when names such as McLaren, Miller, Sweet, Bell, Pagitt, and Jones, float through the atmosphere, it causes a sub-conscious knitting of your eyebrows?

{yes or no}

You don’t even need to read The Shack and, for some reason, you are inexplicably concerned about what’s inside it?

{yes or no}

You get disturbed when someone refers to either The Green Bible,The Good as New Bible, The Voice, or The Message as actually being “The Bible.”  Oh, and when someone applauds the gender-neutered New Revised Standard Version, you are strongly tempted to accidentally-on-purpose drop your keys and tie their shoelaces together? (Please remember, tongue is firmly in cheek here!) 

{yes or no}

you’ve accepted the fact that you will undoubtedly appear foolish, old-fashioned, weird, and wrong to the world, and yes, even to the modern church, if you actually journey down the narrow way of the Cross? 

{yes or no}

The fact that the book, Blue Like Jazz, is one of the greatest selling Christian books of all time, makes you want to walk the streets of your nearest city and apologize to everyone you meet for how poorly Christianity is currently representing it’s Lord and Master?

{yes or no}

When God says that He is the Creator, you have absolutely no problem believing He pulled off the six days of Creation in six actual days and that He didn’t linger over the project for tens of millions of years while waiting for blobs of slime to finally gain consciousness?

{yes or no}

God, as revealed throughout the Old Testament, isn’t an embarrassment to you, and you don’t feel it necessary to make excuses for the fact that God destroyed the earth with a flood, swallowed up his own people into the earth when they challenged His authority, brought judgment upon nations, and demanded that blood be shed as an atonement for Sin? 

{yes or no}

Even though Brian McLaren is supposedly one of the 25 most influential evangelical Christians today that you consider his opinion on any matter about as highly as you would the Dalai Lama’s?  (In fact, it’s strange, but their two opinions sound strangely congruent most of the time anyway)

{yes or no}

just the concept of there being a list of the “25 most influential evangelicals today,” sort of makes your stomach a bit queasy?

{yes or no}

Though Rob Bell has attempted to sell the church on the notion that Truth adapts to fit each subsequent generation and is not fixed and unchanging, you are rather happy and content in the fact that your God adapts to no man but commands all men to bend to His Way?

{yes or no}

Though Doug Pagitt is introducing the Budhist salvation practice of Yoga to Christ’s church here in America, you have found that the notion of you going brainless for a period of time in order to get closer to God, causes you to wonder, “what god am I getting closer to in doing that?”

{yes or no}

You firmly believe that the lost art of preaching needs to be re-instituted as the God-ordained means of moving a soul to repentance?

{yes or no}

you secretly have always dreamed of joining David’s renegade band of mighties and performing an exploit that would get you included in 1st Chronicles chapter 11?

{yes or no}

you are convinced that the way the Church will get back on its feet is NOT through more creative marketing techniques, cultural-sensitivity training, and better entertainment quality, but through gritty, old-fashioned, unvarnished preaching, prayer and repentance?

{yes or no}

Whenever you see the book, “Your Best Life Now” in your local grocery store turnstile display, you feel a knot form in the pit of your stomach and a heavy sigh emit from between your lips?

{yes or no}

the notion of metrosexual men heading up the modern Church makes you want to dress up in a camel-skin loin cloth, eat some locust and wild honey, and start shouting, “Repent!”?

{yes or no}

you are bizarre enough to actually believe that the topic of hell needs to be re-infused into the list of “the most commonly preached on topics of our day?”

{yes or no}

In taking this quiz, you, for the very first time, feel that maybe, just maybe, you aren’t a total lunatic? 

{yes or no}