1. Identity – Finding new individual and collective identity

This segment responds to former Latter-day Saint experiences in regards to feeling a sense of being an individual out of place and “culture-less” through loss of friends, community ties, cherished stories, absolute answers, a sense of being special/elite, and how this contributes to a loss of essential roots and sense of identity.

2. Relationships – Friends, loved ones, marriage, and children issues

This segment helps deal with issues surrounding relationships in a variety of forms that are often complicated, sometimes fractured and even lost through a transition out of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

3. Church Culture – Sorting out new church culture

This segment helps the transitioner develop a new sense of identity and relationships in Christian community through the church. It also address issues of church culture that differ from the Mormon context, including church structure, baptism, communion, stewardship, the place of clergy, and the sense of calling to service.

Section II. Doctrine and Worldview Issues

 This section presents traditional Christian doctrine and worldview framed in understandable ways for the transitioner, with an emphasis upon the individual playing a part in the Grand Narrative, God’s story of mission to the whole of the cosmos.

4. “Where did I come from?:” God’s Grand Story

This section acknowledges at the outset that traditional Christianity has no concept of the pre-existence, a doctrine which provides great meaning and purpose for Latter-day Saints. However, we will then consider that we need to shift from a “me-centered” approach to life to one which grounds our personal stories in the grander narrative of God’s mission in the world. As writers like Christopher J. H. Wright remind us, “Here is The Story, the grand universal narrative that stretches from creation to new creation, and accounts for everything in between.  This is The Story that tells us where we have come from, how we got to be here, who we are, why the world is in the mess it is, how it can be (and has been) changed, and where we are ultimately going.  And the whole story is predicated on the reality of this God and the mission of this God.  He is the originator of the story, the teller of the story, the prime actor in the story, the planner and guide of the story’s plot, the meaning of the story and its ultimate completion. He is its beginning, end and center. It is the story of the mission of God, of this God and no other.”

5. “Why am I here?:” The mission of the community of God

This section discusses the practical outworking of what it “looks like” for an individual story to be lived out within The Story of God. In many ways the world is broken and not what God intended, even though God has promised a new heavens and new earth. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus God has defeated the powers of evil and begun the process of recreating the world. God calls his followers to live by the power of the Spirit in spreading the peace of God through the gospel to the ends of the earth.

6. “Where am I going?:” Life in the new heavens and new earth

This segment paints a broad picture of the future state that embraces a robust resurrection of the body, a recreation of the entire cosmos in a new heavens and earth, and a life of creativity and service that surpasses human ability to imagine its potential.