Terms of use and privacy

© 2026 Michael W Winslow - The Michlaude Discipleship Project. Denominational Mapping Instrument v1.25. Free to use. You may share it unchanged for personal, congregational and educational non-commercial purposes, with credit. See Terms of use.

1. What this covers. The questionnaire, the plain-language church profiles, the answer sheets, the way the churches' answers are coded and arranged, the guide, the Reader Edition and the scoring page are the author's work. Words quoted from a church's own documents belong to that church and are quoted for commentary, with a link to the source. The facts about what a church teaches belong to no one.
2. You may. Use the tool free of charge. Save, print or export your own results. Share the link to the page. Share the guide, the Reader and the answer sheets unchanged, with credit to the author, for non-commercial purposes. Quote short passages with credit and a link. Use it in a congregational or classroom study.
3. You may not, without written permission. Sell the work or put it behind a payment or sign-up wall. Publish, mirror or republish the guide, the Reader, the answer sheets or the page, in whole or in substantial part. Adapt the coding, the questions or the profiles, or build a competing tool or data set from them. Scrape or copy the data in bulk, including from the page's source. Use the work to train, fine-tune, test or populate any machine-learning or AI model or data set. Remove or change this notice. The page carries its coded data in its source, so anyone can see it; these terms, not a technical lock, say what you may do with it.
4. Your answers are yours. Your answers are kept in this browser (local storage) and in a cookie named dmi_answers that holds the same save code and lasts one year. They are not sent to the author or stored on any server. The page carries its own two fonts (Newsreader and Source Sans 3, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1) and loads nothing from Google. Tapping Save as PDF or Save my creed loads a PDF library (jsPDF 2.5.1) from cdnjs.cloudflare.com; your answers are not sent to it. If you type a name for the heading of your personal creed, it is used only to print that heading in the PDF built in your browser; it is not saved and it is not sent anywhere. The creed PDF ends with a save code that holds your answers and level marks, so anyone who has the PDF can read and load them; it holds no name, church or comparison.
5. What the work is. A description of what churches' own documents say, not a ruling on any church or on anyone's salvation. It describes; it does not grade. It describes a denomination's documents, never one congregation.
6. Permission and licence. To ask for permission, contact [email protected]. Text and answer sheets licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Text-and-data-mining and AI-training rights are reserved.

Text and answer sheets licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Text-and-data-mining and AI-training rights are reserved.

Reader edition v1.25, built from working draft v1.21 of the author's full guide, which holds the sources, the by-question lists, the open items, and the revision history. It is not published, because of its size; to check a source, contact the author.