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id: 20110321_fbt_walls_evaluation_questions
title: COUNCIL - FBT - Walls Evaluation - Eight Primary Walls Prompt Set
category: Wisdom
predicted_narrative_arc: name-the-wall-to-breakthrough
sentiment: Pastoral
emotions:
- Honest
- Diagnostic
- Hopeful
keypoints:
- Spiritual barriers categorized into Eight Primary Walls correlating with eight breakthroughs
- Twenty-four self-assessment prompts with almost-never to almost-always scale
- Companion to Ryan Rush Walls / Faith Breakthroughs journey language
summary: >
  Recovered Walls evaluation question bank from the 2011 Faith Breakthroughs site
  (faithbreakthroughs.org snapshot that served the Walls WordPress content). Useful
  for Asker starter chips and barn FAQ framing - not a scored instrument rebuild.
tags:
- fbt
- walls
- ryan-rush
- evaluation
- eight-walls
- archive-recover
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truth_score: 8
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sample: false
consent: owner_approved
agent: council
created: "2026-08-31"
updated: "2026-08-31T12:00:00Z"
vault_stage: 07_CODEX
headwaters: COUNCIL
prefix: COUNCIL
enrich_status: ok
enrich_blockers: []
enrich_method: manual
pipeline_filename: COUNCIL_2011-03-21_walls-evaluation-eight-primary-walls.md
source_kind: web_archive_recover
proposed_topic: Wisdom
lane: FBT
voice: desk
active_voice: desk
voices:
- desk
corpus_topic: Wisdom
content_status: active
date: "2011-03-21"
original_url: http://faithbreakthroughs.org/
archive_url: https://web.archive.org/web/20110705054448/http://faithbreakthroughs.org/
related_host: http://www.faithbreakthroughs.com/
snapshot_date: "2011-07-05"
book_title: Walls - Why Everybody's Stuck (and Nobody Has to Be)
book_author: Ryan Rush
book_year: 2011
provenance: wayback_walls_era
---

> **Provenance note:** Question text recovered from Wayback snapshot of `faithbreakthroughs.org` (2011-07-05), which served the early Faith Breakthroughs / *Walls* site (also hosted as `faithbreakthroughs.com`). Scoring logic / wall-mapping algorithm was not archived in readable form here — only the published prompts.

---

# Start your faith breakthrough now!

The spiritual barriers people face are countless, but they can be categorized into **Eight Primary Walls**. These walls correlate with the 8 primary breakthroughs that everyone needs.

**Response scale used on the site:** Almost Never · Seldom · Sometimes · Most of the Time · Almost Always

## Evaluation prompts (1–24)

1. I feel like there is a disconnect between who I really am and who I pretend to be in front of other people.
2. There are things in my past that make me wonder whether I should believe the Bible or something or someone else.
3. I spend too much of my energy pursuing things rather than people.
4. I tend to push people away when they try to get close to me.
5. I often worry that God is angry with me.
6. When it comes to life after death, I am concerned about my destiny.
7. I can get so busy with life that I find myself ignoring the most important things in my life.
8. I find myself often involved in things that I know are less than God's best for me.
9. I feel like God wants me to do things that he has not given me the power to do.
10. I find myself more focused on the things I don't have but wish I did, rather than being thankful for what I have been given.
11. It troubles me that God has not answered my prayers.
12. I have been wronged in the past in a way that I cannot get over.
13. I have a hard time trusting people.
14. There are things in my past that make me wonder if God really is in control.
15. I worry about the problems that the future holds.
16. I tend to expect the worst to happen.
17. When looking back on my life, I tend to focus on all of the things I did wrong.
18. I have to guard against judging people when I learn they are dealing with tough circumstances.
19. When looking at my priorities, there are other things that are as important as God in my life.
20. My faith practices (church attendance, prayers, etc.) are more about routine than relationship with God.
21. When I am facing a difficult situation, I feel like I can solve problems without God's help.
22. I know a lot of people, but don't feel very close to many people.
23. I question why God has allowed certain things to happen in my life.
24. I have a hard time trusting that God can solve my problems.