Spiritual Stages Scale
Adapted by Dean Halverson and Howard Killion from the Spiritual Awareness and Growth Scale by Dr. James F. Engel.
Note: Not everyone goes through these stages exactly as indicated, but they are important signposts.
God’s Christian’s International’s Response
(Becoming aware of, and then
Initiative Responsibility
more and more in love with, Jesus Christ)
+10 Vision for future ministry
Ministry outreach +9 Effective outreach to others
+8 Development in Christian leadership
+7 Growth in total stewardship
Witness of the Spirit +6 Recognition and use of spiritual gifts
Christian fellowship +5 Understanding and application of Bible doctrine
Personal growth +4 Growth in Bible study
+3 Conceptual and behavioral growth
+2 Adoption of Christian identity
+1 Assurance of salvation
Gives spiritual life Harvesting Conversion: New Creation in Christ
because received Him as Savior
–1 Repentance
Cultivating and –2 Decision to act
watering the crop
Convicts –3 Recognition of personal sin problem in relation to God
–4 Positive attitude toward the Gospel
Planting the seed –5 Understanding fundamentals of the Gospel
–6 Positive attitude toward the God who has made Himself
fully known only through Jesus [Biblical Monotheism:
Christianity (but no personal relationship with Jesus)]
–7 Understanding that God made Himself fully known only
through Jesus
Reveals Himself –8 Belief in a Creator God with personal attributes but not
belief in Jesus as God [Nonbiblical Monotheism:
Judaism, Islam, some forms of Hinduism]
Preparing the soil –9 Belief in a spiritual reality but not in a single Creator God
who has personal attributes [Monism, Pantheism,
Polytheism: Hinduism (most forms); Jainism; Sikhism;
Buddhism; Shintoism; Taoism; Zoroastrianism;
Animism/Voodoo/Santeria; New Age; Native American
religion; Wicca; Druidism; Gaia; Astrology; Mormonism]
–10 No belief in any spiritual reality [Secularism, Atheism,
Agnosticism: Scientism, Neo-Darwinism, Marxism,
Confucianism]
