Conviction Type

The Conviction Type Indicator, for knowing what you believe and who you could build a life with.

A tool for working out what you actually believe, and for helping two people talk about it well. Nine spectrums, then sixteen practical issues. You get a four-letter Conviction Type, a profile you can read, and a share code so you and someone else can see where you line up.

This is not a test you pass and it does not rank anyone's faith. Most of what it measures sits outside the core of the faith: real convictions that shape a shared life, but not the things that make someone a Christian. A gap is a conversation, not a verdict.

The premise: every option on these spectrums is a position held by people arguing from Scripture. Christians who take the Bible with equal seriousness land in different places on all nine, usually because they disagree about what a passage requires rather than whether it is true. A low score is not a weaker faith and a high score is not a stronger one; the spectrums show which reading you hold and what you think it asks of you. Every question lists the passages each side argues from, linked to the ESV.

What gets recorded
Anonymous, and here is the whole list. When you start: whatever you picked on the optional dropdowns below. When you finish: your seven scores, the cluster you landed in, how many items you marked "?", and how long you took. If you do the second part: which position you chose on each issue. If you compare with someone: how far apart the two profiles were, never the codes and never who. If you send feedback: your rating and whatever you type.

Not recorded: your name, email, IP address, or anything that could identify you. There is no login and no cookie. Two people who compare are not linked to each other in the data.

Why: to see which questions confuse people, which traditions the quiz fails to place, and whether the thresholds are set right. Nothing is sold, shared, or published. Skip the dropdowns below and the record simply has less in it; every part of the quiz still works.

Before you start

Optional, anonymous, and it helps see who this works for. Skip if you like. Anonymous results are recorded to improve the quiz; nothing identifies you.

Take the quiz first.

Shared life

The second part. Sixteen issues that churches leave open and couples do not. None of these decide whether someone is a Christian. They decide what a Tuesday looks like. Each one asks two separate things:

My view pick one. What you actually hold.
In a spouse tick every view you could live with. Your own is ticked for you.

The second answer is the one that matters. If you tick everything, nothing will ever flag; if you tick only your own, everything will. Answer it like you are describing a real marriage.

Take the Convictions part first, then paste the other person's code here. Shared life shows up when both codes include it.