Survey

I bought a Hyundai Accent last year.  Monday we took it in for an oil change and yesterday Beloved Husband bought me a new phone.

In all three instances, the employees we dealt with explained in detail that their corporation would be requesting that I answer surveys. Each of them also explained that my answers should be based on how they interacted with me. They also explained that my answers would impact them.

Yesterday, after the salesman’s comment, I got to thinking. What would a survey show about our Christian lives? What questions would the survey ask? Don’t non-believers ask the same questions? The questions are for any Christian, beginning with me.

Most surveys ask about what I was looking for?

And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? (Acts 16:30 KJV)

Did you find what you were looking for? Of course, Acts 16:31 gives the same answer Paul did:

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (Romans 10:13 KJV)

The car survey asked how did I get there? Did I hear of them through advertising, word of mouth?

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! (Romans 10:14-15 KJV)

If the survey is in depth, there are questions about how the salesmen explained the warranty, what has to be done to activate it:

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:36-40 KJV)

There’s always a question about whether or not I would recommend them to others:

And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. (Luke 19:39-40 KJV)

A couple of times surveys have promised a reward for the taking:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16 KJV)

Finally, if someone is taking the survey because of my actions, what should they look for in me?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23 KJV)

What other questions would you put on a survey about an experience with Christianity?