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How to Carry Out an Eight Conditions Analysis

You might have heard of Wayne Dye's Eight Conditions for Scripture Engagement. How can an analysis of a project be carried out? The simplest way is to use these online Google forms. Here are the steps:
  1. Get your team and partners together.
  2. Have someone teach Wayne Dye's Eight Conditions (or ask everyone to read it beforehand in the LWC)
  3. Fill in the first form.
  4. Give the condition an overall rating out of five. Five is high, one is low.
  5. Fill in the second to eighth forms and give them ratings.
  6. Work out which conditions have the lowest ratings.
  7. Start working to try and bring those conditions up. Work out a Scripture Engagement strategy for that people and adapt your project accordingly.
For ease of use I've posted the links to the forms below, with some instructions:

The Eight Conditions Questionnaire in Eight Parts

The Eight Conditions questionnaire is now online in eight separate parts so you can answers short questionnaires on just one condition at a time. Here are the links:


This means you can take your time filling them in, and not worry about setting aside a couple of hours for the whole 8 conditions form.

A Note to ‘Administrators’

Administrators are those who send out the form for teams to fill in. Please follow these instructions:
  1. Make a copy (click on File) of each form
  2. Assign administrators (decide who you want to see the results - you and who else? -  make them administrators or editors)
  3. Send them out yourself! ‘Send’ the forms out to people you want to fill them in. Then you and any other administrators/editors will be able to see a bar chart of the combined results of all of them, or go through the individual results of each contributor, as you wish. There are a couple of ways to send out Google forms (directly, using a link in an email or on Moodle or whatever), so decide how you want to do that

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