📝 Worksheet 7.4: Fifteen-Aspect Christian Conversation Plan
📝 Worksheet 7.4: Fifteen-Aspect Christian Conversation Plan
Purpose
The Fifteen-Aspect Christian Flourishing Review helps Christian leaders listen to a person as an embodied soul created in the image of God.
It is not:
Christian auditing
psychotherapy
trauma treatment
medical diagnosis
legal investigation
crisis intervention
a method for locating spiritual “charge”
a system for ranking emotions or spiritual advancement
a technique for forcing disclosure
a substitute for qualified professional care
The goal is faithful attention under the lordship of Jesus Christ.
Learning Outcome
By completing this worksheet, you will develop a permission-based ministry conversation plan that:
honors the person’s freedom and privacy
considers the whole person
distinguishes sin from suffering
identifies possible needs without diagnosing
recognizes appropriate ministry boundaries
prepares responsible referrals
creates an appropriate gospel bridge
trusts the Holy Spirit with the outcome
Part One: Prepare Your Ministry Posture
1. Identify the Ministry Setting
Where could this conversation take place?
☐ Local church
☐ Soul Center
☐ Chaplaincy
☐ Christian ministry
☐ Community outreach
☐ Christian life-coaching ministry
☐ Other: ______________________________
Who provides oversight and accountability for this ministry?
What is your role?
What qualifications or limitations apply to your role?
2. Clarify Your Christian Identity
Write one sentence you could use to identify your role honestly.
Example:
“I am a Christian ministry volunteer. I can listen, pray with your permission, discuss Scripture, and help you consider possible next steps, but I am not a therapist or medical professional.”
Your statement:
3. Request Permission
Write a permission-based opening question.
Example:
“Would it be helpful to look at several areas of your life that may be connected to what you are experiencing?”
Your opening question:
Write a statement that protects the person’s freedom not to answer.
4. Examine Your Motives
Why do you want to have this conversation?
Check any temptation you must guard against:
☐ Trying to prove that Scientology is wrong
☐ Pressuring the person to leave Scientology
☐ Attempting to produce an immediate conversion
☐ Trying to appear spiritually impressive
☐ Gathering a dramatic testimony
☐ Becoming the person’s primary rescuer
☐ Operating beyond my training
☐ Treating the person as a ministry project
☐ Other: ______________________________
What would Christlike love require from you?
Part Two: Describe the Ministry Situation
Use a real situation only when privacy can be protected. Otherwise, create a realistic practice situation.
Person’s Name or Practice Name
Use a first name, initials, or fictional name.
Presenting Concern
What concern has the person expressed in their own words?
Scientology Terms or Ideas Being Used
Record important words without immediately correcting them.
Examples may include:
thetan
reactive mind
engram
restimulation
charge
auditing
Clear
spiritual advancement
survival
reality as agreement
Terms used:
What does the person appear to mean by these terms?
Human Longing
What legitimate human longing may be present?
☐ Freedom
☐ Healing
☐ Understanding
☐ Belonging
☐ Forgiveness
☐ Peace
☐ Truth
☐ Spiritual growth
☐ Control during uncertainty
☐ Relief from painful memories
☐ Reconciliation
☐ Hope beyond death
☐ Other: ______________________________
Explain:
Part Three: The Fifteen-Aspect Review
Do not force every question into one conversation. Select the aspects most relevant to the person’s situation.
For each aspect, record:
What may need to be explored?
What permission-based question could be asked?
What ministry response or referral may be appropriate?
1. Numerical Aspect
Consider quantity, frequency, duration, sequence, and measurable patterns.
Possible concerns:
hours of sleep
frequency of anxiety
amount of debt
number of conflicts
length of involvement
time spent in religious activities
What may need attention?
Permission-based question:
Possible response or referral:
2. Spatial Aspect
Consider place, environment, distance, privacy, safety, and boundaries.
Possible concerns:
safe housing
privacy
unwanted contact
personal boundaries
access to confidential information
distance from supportive people
What may need attention?
Permission-based question:
Possible response or referral:
3. Kinematic Aspect
Consider movement, rhythm, transition, change, and direction.
Possible concerns:
leaving or reducing participation
changing beliefs
relocation
changing employment
family transitions
movement toward isolation or stability
What may need attention?
Permission-based question:
Possible response or referral:
4. Physical Aspect
Consider material conditions, energy, bodily symptoms, health, and safety.
Possible concerns:
racing heart
chronic pain
fatigue
medication
housing
transportation
immediate danger
What may need attention?
Permission-based question:
Possible response or referral:
Does this concern require a qualified medical professional?
☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ Uncertain
Explain:
5. Biotic Aspect
Consider organic life, vitality, growth, bodily rhythms, and creaturely limits.
Possible concerns:
sleep
nutrition
exercise
illness
exhaustion
unhealthy work patterns
neglect of bodily needs
What may need attention?
Permission-based question:
Possible response or referral:
6. Sensitive or Psychic Aspect
Consider emotion, perception, fear, grief, joy, desire, and bodily reactions.
Possible concerns:
anxiety
grief
shame
anger
loneliness
fear of losing relationships
embarrassment about emotional weakness
What may need attention?
Permission-based question:
Possible response or referral:
How will you avoid ranking emotions as spiritually high or low?
7. Analytical Aspect
Consider reasoning, evidence, assumptions, distinctions, and discernment.
List what the person knows:
List what the person suspects:
List what the person fears:
List important claims that require further evidence:
Permission-based question:
How will you avoid dismissing concerns or reinforcing unsupported conclusions?
8. Historical or Formative Aspect
Consider habits, skills, practices, work, technology, power, and cultural formation.
Possible concerns:
habitual self-evaluation
pursuit of advancement
specialized vocabulary
institutional expectations
learned responses
work and educational patterns
What practices have shaped the person?
Permission-based question:
What new practices could support faithful growth?
9. Lingual Aspect
Consider language, definitions, stories, testimony, promises, and symbols.
Choose important terms that require clarification:
Term: ______________________________
What the person may mean:
Historic Christian meaning:
Term: ______________________________
What the person may mean:
Historic Christian meaning:
Write a respectful clarification question:
10. Social Aspect
Consider family, friendships, authority, community, roles, and belonging.
Who currently supports the person?
Which relationships may be affected?
What social losses might occur?
Permission-based question:
How could a Christian community offer belonging without pressure?
11. Economic Aspect
Consider money, time, attention, property, energy, and limited resources.
Possible concerns:
debt
course or service expenses
employment
housing
time demands
financial dependence
unsustainable commitments
What may need attention?
Permission-based question:
Would a financial, employment, or housing referral be appropriate?
12. Aesthetic Aspect
Consider harmony, beauty, enjoyment, rest, creativity, celebration, and fittingness.
What brings the person healthy rest or enjoyment?
Where does life appear fragmented?
Permission-based question:
What healthy activity could be encouraged?
13. Juridical Aspect
Consider justice, rights, duties, protection, accountability, and restitution.
Has the person reported harm, threats, coercion, or rights violations?
Is this a confirmed event, allegation, fear, or interpretation?
Does the situation require:
☐ Safeguarding action
☐ Law-enforcement assistance
☐ Legal counsel
☐ Organizational reporting
☐ Emergency help
☐ No formal action currently identified
☐ Further professional guidance
What is outside your authority or competence?
14. Ethical Aspect
Consider self-giving love, fidelity, trustworthiness, motive, and treatment of others.
Is anyone being treated as an instrument for:
☐ Money
☐ Control
☐ Organizational success
☐ Spiritual advancement
☐ Publicity
☐ A dramatic testimony
☐ Personal approval
☐ Other: ______________________________
What would loving God and neighbor require?
What promises or confidentiality commitments must be honored?
15. Pistic or Faith Aspect
Consider ultimate trust, worship, commitment, identity, direction, and hope.
What appears to function as the person’s ultimate trust?
☐ Personal ability
☐ Spiritual procedure
☐ Religious organization
☐ Knowledge
☐ Control
☐ Survival
☐ Social acceptance
☐ Financial security
☐ Jesus Christ
☐ Uncertain
☐ Other: ______________________________
Permission-based question:
What does the person currently believe about Jesus Christ?
What does the person believe can ultimately save or free them?
Part Four: Distinguish Sin, Suffering, and Responsibility
Christian ministry must not treat every struggle as the same kind of problem.
Sin Committed
Has the person acknowledged an action, attitude, deception, or injury for which repentance may be appropriate?
Suffering Endured
What grief, loss, fear, illness, rejection, or hardship has the person experienced?
Harm Caused by Others
Has another person acted unjustly or destructively?
Bodily or Emotional Weakness
What physical or emotional limitations should be met with compassion rather than shame?
Personal Responsibility
What choices can the person honestly own without accepting false blame?
Protection or Repair
What protection, restitution, reconciliation, or practical repair may be needed?
Part Five: Identify Ministry Boundaries
What You Can Appropriately Offer
Check all that apply:
☐ Respectful listening
☐ Prayer with permission
☐ Scripture discussion
☐ Christian worldview comparison
☐ Gospel explanation
☐ Christian encouragement
☐ Community connection
☐ Practical next-step planning
☐ Accountability within my ministry role
☐ Referral information
☐ Other: ______________________________
What You Must Not Claim to Do
Check each boundary you will observe:
☐ I will not conduct Christian auditing.
☐ I will not identify or remove spiritual charge.
☐ I will not diagnose a medical or psychological condition.
☐ I will not promise to uncover a hidden cause.
☐ I will not pressure disclosure.
☐ I will not rank the person’s spiritual condition.
☐ I will not claim private knowledge of God’s will for the person.
☐ I will not pressure religious change.
☐ I will not hide my Christian identity.
☐ I will not promise confidentiality beyond legal or safeguarding limits.
☐ I will not operate outside my training.
☐ I will not use the person’s story without informed permission.
Referral Plan
Medical concern:
Mental-health concern:
Legal concern:
Financial concern:
Safety or safeguarding concern:
Pastoral supervision:
Emergency concern:
Part Six: Prepare a Gospel Bridge
A gospel bridge connects the person’s expressed longing with the Christian gospel without manipulating the person.
1. The Longing
What is the person seeking?
2. The Scientology Explanation
How might Scientology explain the need or offer a path forward?
3. The Reduction or Limitation
What does this explanation reduce, overlook, absolutize, or fail to explain?
4. The Christian Philosophical Correction
How does the Christian worldview provide a fuller understanding of the person, reality, truth, responsibility, and created life?
5. The Christian Theological Fulfillment
How do creation, sin, incarnation, cross, resurrection, grace, the Holy Spirit, the church, and new creation address the deeper longing?
6. Permission Question
Write a question that requests permission to explain the gospel.
Example:
“May I explain how Christianity understands spiritual freedom as a gift received through Jesus Christ rather than an achievement reached through a spiritual process?”
Your question:
7. Gospel Summary
Write a brief gospel explanation suitable for this conversation.
8. Noncoercive Invitation
Write an invitation that allows the person to accept, decline, or take more time.
Part Seven: Develop the Conversation Plan
Opening
How will you welcome the person and explain your role?
Permission
How will you request permission to continue?
Priority Aspects
Select the five aspects most relevant to the situation.
Explain why these are priorities:
Questions
Write five open, permission-based questions.
Scripture
What Scripture passage may appropriately support this conversation?
Why is it relevant?
How will you avoid using Scripture to pressure or manipulate?
Practical Next Steps
Identify no more than three realistic next steps.
Follow-Up
What follow-up would be appropriate?
Who should provide oversight?
What information must remain private?
Part Eight: Conversation Review
Complete this section after a practice conversation, role-play, or supervised ministry conversation.
What Went Well?
Where Did You Listen Carefully?
Where Were You Tempted to Correct Too Quickly?
Did You Ask Permission Before Discussing Scripture or the Gospel?
☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ Not applicable
Explain:
Did You Make Any Assumptions Without Adequate Evidence?
Did You Move Beyond Your Training or Role?
☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ Uncertain
Explain:
Was a Referral Needed?
☐ Yes
☐ No
☐ Further consultation needed
Explain:
Did the Person’s Freedom Remain Protected?
What Will You Do Differently Next Time?
Part Nine: Ministry Boundary Covenant
Read and sign the following statement.
I will treat every person as an embodied soul created in the image of God. I will listen respectfully, protect freedom and privacy, and remain honest about my Christian identity.
I will not imitate Scientology auditing, attempt to identify spiritual charge, rank spiritual advancement, diagnose hidden conditions, or pressure confidential disclosure.
I will distinguish among sin, suffering, bodily limitation, emotional pain, relational harm, social pressure, and legal or safety concerns.
I will offer Scripture, prayer, Christian community, practical wisdom, and gospel conversation within the limits of my ministry role.
I will seek supervision and make appropriate referrals when a person’s needs exceed my training.
I will not attempt to engineer conversion. I will proclaim Jesus Christ faithfully, invite without pressure, and trust the Holy Spirit with the outcome.
Name: _________________________________________________
Signature: ______________________________________________
Date: __________________________________________________
Ministry Supervisor: ______________________________________
Final Ministry Principle
The Fifteen-Aspect Christian Flourishing Review is not a technology for controlling or repairing people. It is a framework for listening to whole persons, practicing responsible Christian care, and helping people consider faithful next steps under the lordship of Jesus Christ.