See where your church’s weight is collecting.
DIAL Community for Churches is a 42-item structured self-assessment for pastors, elders, staff, ministry leaders, and volunteers — serving churches of every size and tradition. You choose your church type at the start, and the questions and scoring stay the same while the language fits the church you serve. It gives you two readings: Formation Integrity and Structural Integrity.
Estimated time: 8–12 minutes. Your answers stay in this browser unless you print or export them.
This is a structured self-assessment for reflection and growth — not a validated or diagnostic instrument, and not a substitute for your elder board's governance duties, your church's legal or fiduciary obligations, HR or safeguarding processes, or any appropriate professional counsel.
Two dials. One honest picture.
Structural Integrity
The church's structure that distributes truth, authority, care, accountability, standards, and responsibility — assessed first, from shared observable ground.
Formation Integrity
The inner capacity of elders, staff, and volunteers to carry pressure without distorting, reacting, hiding, or collapsing — assessed after, with the structure already in view.
Integrity Gap
The distance between what people can carry internally and what the church's structure can sustain externally.
Current reality, not aspiration.
Section 1 asks about the church — its leadership, staff, ministries, and members you are assessing. Section 2 then asks about your own leadership formation — what you can carry personally. Answer honestly and with care. The goal is not to label anyone. The goal is to find where weight is concentrating so repair can begin.
A team assessment. Two dials. One honest picture of where leadership weight is collecting.
Structural Integrity
The outer structure of the church itself — whether truth, authority, care, accountability, standards, and responsibility move through it in a healthy way.
Formation Integrity
The inner capacity of your people — elders, staff, volunteers — to carry pressure without distorting, reacting, hiding, or collapsing. This is the weight people carry personally.
The Integrity Gap
The distance between what people can carry internally and what the structure can sustain. When that gap is wide, pressure collects — and eventually something gives.
One seat, one perspective
Each person answers from their own seat — elder, staff, volunteer, committee chair. No single response is the verdict. The picture sharpens when multiple people compare what each perspective is seeing. Your supervisor or team lead will receive all responses together.
About 8–12 minutes
42 questions total. Answer from current reality, not aspiration or intention. Your answers stay in this browser unless you print or export them.
We'll start with the church, then turn inward.
Section 1 asks about the church — whether truth, authority, care, and accountability move through your structure in a healthy way. This is familiar ground: you're observing something you already know and work inside every day.
Section 2 then asks the harder question: what can you personally carry? Once you've been honest about the structure, the personal questions land differently — because you've already named what the church needs, and you can see your own part in it more clearly.
- 22 questions about how your church actually functions
- Then 20 questions about your own leadership capacity
- No right or wrong answers — just honest current reality
- About 8–12 minutes total
Are you completing this as part of a team assessment?
If your supervisor or church asked you to complete this as part of a group assessment, answer the questions below. They help build the team picture and go directly to whoever is reviewing the results.
If you are completing this individually, just continue to your results.
DIAL Community for Churches
This is a directional short-form reading, not a verdict. Use it to start the right conversation and identify the next faithful repair.
| Integrity Gap | — |
| First repair focus | — |
Where the inner dial needs attention.
Where the outer dial needs inspection.
Where to look first
Move from diagnosis to repair.
How you tend to carry weight
This sits beneath the structural reading above and is secondary to it. It describes how you lead and carry weight in your church — a mirror for growth, not a label, a verdict, or a fixed identity. Like the rest of this tool, it is a structured self-reflection, not a validated or diagnostic profile.
Your trio's strengths, risks, three-month growth plan, and coaching questions.
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Use the right support pathway.
This tool is not a substitute for your church's elder or elder board governance, your bylaws and constitution, and safeguarding or mandatory-reporting obligations, or licensed counseling where those are needed. If harm, abuse, misconduct, or safety concerns are present, use the proper reporting and support pathways immediately.
Finish and pass to the next person.
Do these in order so nothing is lost.