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(1) Is your church a safe community where people can be honest with themselves, each other, and with God?.

(2)Is your church community a place where feelings, both “good” and “bad,” can safely be experienced and expressed?.

(3)Is your church community one in which people listen, attend, and process rather than simply tell, influence, and give?.

(4) Does your church community allow people to express their pain?.

(5)Does your church community encourage and facilitate self-disclosure?.

(6)Does your church community, both individually and collectively, provide people opportunities to give feedback on their experience in the church?.

Does your church community extend grace and forgiveness when people are in pain, are different, or fail?.