Welcome to Rooted & Faithful.

Effective date: September 4, 2026

Ministry and Educational Purpose

The website and its resources are provided for general Christian discipleship, reflection, and educational purposes. They are intended to point you toward Jesus Christ, Scripture, prayer, the Holy Spirit, wise Christian relationships, and the local church.

Scripture, Theology, and Christian Discipleship

Rooted & Faithful seeks to teach faithfully under the authority of Scripture. Our explanations and reflections do not replace careful reading of the Bible in context, prayerful discernment, participation in a local church, or counsel from mature and trustworthy Christians.

No Counseling, Medical, Legal, or Professional Services

Use of rootedandfaithful.org does not create a pastoral, counseling, therapeutic, medical, legal, financial, coaching, fiduciary, professional, confidential, or ministry-client relationship. The resources do not provide crisis intervention, emergency response, individualized pastoral care, diagnosis, treatment, or regulated professional advice.

Urgent or Personal Needs

If you face immediate danger, possible self-harm or harm to another person, abuse, or an urgent medical or mental-health need, contact local emergency services or an appropriate crisis service. Ongoing personal needs should be brought to appropriate pastors, mature Christians, churches, licensed counselors, physicians, attorneys, or other qualified professionals.

Interactive Companions and Technology

Interactive companions are reflection and discipleship tools. Their pathways, matches, suggestions, and results are not professional assessments or authoritative directions from God. Do not enter sensitive, confidential, identifying, medical, legal, financial, or emergency information into a companion.

Personal Responsibility

You are responsible for prayerfully evaluating all resources in light of Scripture, wisdom, your circumstances, appropriate professional guidance, and counsel from trustworthy people. You remain responsible for your decisions and actions, and no particular result is guaranteed.

Permitted Use

Unless a resource states otherwise, you receive a limited, nonexclusive, revocable, and nontransferable license for lawful, noncommercial personal, family, mentoring, small-group, local-church, and ministry use. You may share official links and complete, unaltered free PDFs without charge when all copyright and source notices remain intact and recipients are encouraged to visit rootedandfaithful.org for the current edition. Reasonable printing for permitted use is allowed.

Uses Requiring Permission

Without written permission, you may not sell, license, rent, commercially distribute, charge for, alter, translate, adapt, abridge, rebrand, misleadingly excerpt, or upload complete Rooted & Faithful resources elsewhere; remove notices; incorporate substantial portions into another product or dataset; train or develop an artificial-intelligence system with the materials; or imply endorsement, partnership, or affiliation.

Copyright and Ownership

Free availability does not place a resource in the public domain or transfer ownership. Rooted & Faithful materials remain protected by applicable copyright and other intellectual-property laws.

Contact Forms, Feedback, and Testimonies

Messages cannot be guaranteed confidential. By submitting feedback, corrections, or suggestions, you grant Rooted & Faithful permission to consider and use them without obligation. Names, testimonies, stories, or identifying information will not be shared publicly without permission. Unsolicited manuscripts, proposals, and publication-review requests are not accepted at this time.

External Websites and Services

Third-party websites and services have their own terms and practices. Links do not imply endorsement of everything they contain, and Rooted & Faithful is not responsible for their content, availability, privacy practices, or actions.

Accuracy, Availability, and Changes

We seek to provide faithful and accurate resources, but do not guarantee continuous availability, complete accuracy, error-free technology, or particular outcomes. Rooted & Faithful may correct, revise, replace, suspend, or remove website content and resources.

Disclaimer of Warranties

The website and resources are provided “as is” and “as available” to the fullest extent permitted by law, without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Rooted & Faithful will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from use of—or inability to use—the website, resources, companions, downloads, or linked services.

Privacy

Your use of the website is also governed by our Privacy Policy.

Governing Law

These terms are governed by Wisconsin law and applicable United States federal law, except where another jurisdiction must legally apply.

Changes to These Terms

Material revisions will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of the website after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.