“Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?”
From Systematic Discipleship: 8 Facets of Spiritual Maturity, Chapter 8
Where am I really?
We can memorize the eight facets and nod when someone says “grow in every way” – and still have a fuzzy sense of where we actually are. The Spiritual Maturity Landscape is simply a tool, a map drawn from God's Word, to help you pray your way into honesty without turning growth into a scoreboard.
Why sign in?
You don't need an account to take the assessment. With a free Sandals account you can:
- Save your progress. Stop partway through and pick up later, on any device.
- Keep your results. Come back to your landscape and its facet summaries any time.
- See change over time. Retake it after a season of growth and look back on earlier results.
- Grow with it in the app. Your landscape is ready in Sandals on phone, tablet, and web, next to the growth objectives for each facet.
What the landscape is
The Spiritual Maturity Landscape helps you see your own relative levels of perceived maturity in each of the eight facets: Worship God, Know Christ, Obey the Word, Pray Continuously, Live by the Spirit, Bear Witness, Serve One Another, and Be Holy. Those facets flow from Scripture's portrait of the early church (Acts 2:4, 42-47) and from the New Testament's call to be conformed to the image of Christ (Romans 8:29) and to grow up “in every way” into Him who is the Head (Ephesians 4:15).
When you finish, you receive a personal profile – a landscape with hills and valleys. Higher areas are facets where you perceive yourself as relatively stronger right now; lower areas are where you sense you are weaker or less consistent. A landscape has variety: peaks and valleys sit in the same view. That is what Christian maturity looks like this side of heaven.
Perception, not omniscience
The assessment measures self-perception – how you see your own habits, desires, struggles, and joys in each facet. It does not claim to read the secrets only God knows. It does not replace the local church, the Word, or the Spirit's conviction. It organizes honest reflection so you can pray and plan with clarity.
That also means your landscape is yours. Comparing your profile to someone else's is usually unhelpful, because their “high” or “low” reflects their self-perception, not a shared ruler.
It will not tell you if you are saved
The picture is descriptive, not a verdict on your standing before God. You are not justified by landscape shape; you are justified by grace through faith in Christ. If you are unsure about that, the path is not a self-assessment chart – it is gospel clarity, perhaps with a pastor or trusted believer walking through Scripture with you. For those who are in Christ, the landscape helps with direction in sanctification: where to lean in, where to give thanks, where to ask for help.
Stewardship, not status
The greatest dangers in any assessment are pride and despair. Pride looks at a peak and says, “I must be ahead of others.” Despair looks at a valley and says, “I will never change.” Use the landscape for stewardship instead. The question it answers: given who Christ is and what He calls me to, where am I noticing strength and weakness in my discipleship right now?
Before you begin
- Pray first. Ask God for honesty without despair.
- Move each slider to how true the statement is for you right now – not how you wish it were. There are no wrong answers.
- Your answers are saved on this device as you go, so you can close the page and come back.
- If you can, bring your results to a trusted friend or discipler who can help you see what you might be missing.