Every practice your team can choose — pray, share testimony, open Scripture, reply fast, engage the barrier — ranked by how much more seekers move when it happens. Measured from your own conversations, not a best-practices poster.
Your #1 lever this period: prayer actually prayed — 51% movement vs 32% without it. It happens in 33% of conversations; there is room to use it more. An association, not proof of cause.
Care ministry conversations run at 32% movement against your 38% average across 289 conversations — the biggest pocket of headroom this period.
41% of seekers came back for another conversation after these — 529 people who chose to return. A floor, not a ceiling: seekers we can't match across visits aren't counted.
Conversations presenting all five Gospel essentials produce professions at 2.6× the rate of partial presentations (18% vs 7%). Completing the message is your clearest finishing move.
Each practice compared on the share of seekers showing spiritual movement when it was present versus absent, ranked by the difference. A practice only ranks when both sides have at least 20 movement-assessed conversations. These are associations, not proof of cause — teams tend to pray in conversations already going well.
| Practice | Happens in | Spiritual movement | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Prayer actually prayed
Prayer happened in the conversation
|
33% |
When present
51%
When not
32%
|
+20 pts |
|
Seeker’s barrier engaged
The responder addressed the barrier the seeker named, across all barrier types
|
51% |
When present
47%
When not
28%
|
+19 pts |
|
Prayer offered
The responder offered to pray at any point
|
51% |
When present
47%
When not
30%
|
+17 pts |
|
Personal testimony shared
The responder shared their own faith story
|
23% |
When present
50%
When not
35%
|
+15 pts |
|
First reply within 5 minutes
How fast the responder first answered — of conversations with a tracked reply time
|
72% |
When present
41%
When not
30%
|
+11 pts |
|
Scripture opened
The conversation cited at least one Bible passage
|
44% |
When present
44%
When not
34%
|
+11 pts |
Across 507 evangelistic conversations, the average presentation carried 3.2 Gospel elements and 23% included all five essentials.
Profession rate with all five essentials (114 conversations) versus a partial presentation (393) — 2.6× the rate.
Conversation types running below your ministry-wide movement rate of 38%, biggest headroom first. This is where coaching moves the most people.
| Conversation type | Conversations | Movement vs your average | Headroom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care ministry | 289 |
This type
32%
Your average
38%
|
≈17 seekers |
| Believer encouragement | 84 |
This type
31%
Your average
38%
|
≈5 seekers |
| Crisis | 47 |
This type
28%
Your average
38%
|
≈4 seekers |
| Discipleship | 118 |
This type
35%
Your average
38%
|
≈3 seekers |
Headroom is how many more seekers would likely show movement if that type matched your ministry-wide average — an aspiration to coach toward, not a forecast. Also worth knowing: seekers starting skeptical (187 conversations) move at 22% — 17 points under your average.
Every comparison on this page is an association, not proof of cause. Use it to decide what to practice more, then watch whether the numbers follow.