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These documents are published in English only. The rest of this site is bilingual; these pages are not, because machine-assisted translation of a legal document is worse than none — a mistranslated legal basis is a liability rather than a courtesy. A reviewed Swedish translation will follow.
Agreement
By using kingdomvanguard.com you agree to these terms. If you do not, please do not use the site. The site is operated by Kingdom Vanguard, a Swedish non-profit association (ideell förening).
What the assessments are, and are not
The Church Health Index and the Leadership Health Assessment are structured self-assessment instruments. They score observable organisational and ministry indicators.
They do not measure God's approval of your church, its spiritual worth, the faithfulness of its leaders, or the presence or work of the Holy Spirit. No score is a verdict on any of these, and a low score is not evidence of unfaithfulness. This is in our published methodology and we restate it here because it is the term most likely to be misunderstood.
They are version 0.1 drafts. They have not been independently validated and have not been reviewed by Nordic denominational leaders. The dimensions are deliberately unweighted because no European dataset would justify weighting them.
The results are a starting point for a conversation. They are not professional, legal, financial, employment, medical or clinical advice, and they must not be used as the sole basis for any decision affecting a person's employment, ministry, discipline or wellbeing.
The Leadership Health Assessment: four binding limits
That instrument rates an identifiable person, so these are terms rather than advice.
Your permission to use this instrument is conditional on all four. They are not guidance we hope you will follow. Use it outside them and the permission granted in the Intellectual property section below ends immediately, without notice, for you and for the church or organisation you run it in.
- It must not be used in an appraisal, a performance review, a disciplinary process, a dismissal, a redundancy selection, a contract renewal, or as evidence in any dispute, grievance or tribunal. This holds whether the reading is used as the reason for a decision or as support for a decision already taken. Doing so after inviting anonymous participation is a misuse of this instrument and a breach of these terms, and it may independently breach data protection law in your jurisdiction.
- It is not a safeguarding process. A concern about someone's conduct or safety belongs with your denomination's safeguarding officer and, where a person may be at risk, with the statutory authorities. The instrument deliberately contains no free-text field, and that absence is enforced by an automated test so that it cannot be added quietly later. Do not use this instrument as a route for a disclosure, and do not tell anyone that it is one.
- It is not a diagnosis. Low scores on Emotional Maturity and Care describe how leadership is experienced by those who answered. They are not a clinical finding, they are not evidence of a condition, and they must not be described as either — to the person concerned, to a congregation, or to anyone else.
- The anonymity minimums are not optional. Do not attempt to identify individual respondents. Do not reconstruct a suppressed group score by subtraction, by re-running a reading with a different set of people, or by any other means. Do not require anyone to prove they took part.
Two further conditions on any group reading. First, decide before anyone answers who will see the result, and tell them; changing that afterwards is the single most damaging thing a church can do with these instruments. Second, the person who opens a reading must not present it as compulsory: participation is individual and voluntary, and a reading that people felt obliged to complete does not measure what it claims to.
Crisis and confidentiality
Nothing on this site is a crisis service, a counselling service, or a safeguarding process. If you or someone else is in danger, or you are dealing with a safeguarding concern, contact your local emergency services and your denomination's safeguarding officer.
Intellectual property
The instruments, the methodology, the scoring rules and the site design are the intellectual property of Kingdom Vanguard.
You may: use either instrument to assess your own church, as often as you like, at no cost; print, save and share your own report within your church and with your denominational leadership; download and copy the published documents; and quote the methodology with attribution and a link.
You may not: reproduce either instrument, in whole or in part, as part of a consulting product, training programme or assessment tool offered by anyone else; remove attribution; or present the instruments or their results as your own work.
Scripture quotations are from public domain editions, identified where they appear. Cited research remains the property of its authors and publishers; we link to primary sources wherever we can so that you can check us.
Fees
Prices are published on the services page rather than quoted on request. Published prices are indicative; the price for a specific engagement is confirmed in writing before work begins.
No warranty, and liability
The site is provided as it is. We work to keep it accurate and available, but we do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that the research it cites will remain current.
To the extent permitted by law, Kingdom Vanguard is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of this site or from reliance on an assessment result. The assessments are decision-support tools, not professional advice; responsibility for decisions taken on the basis of a report rests with the church that takes them. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that cannot be limited under Swedish law.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of Sweden, and its courts have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident in another EU member state, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your own country.