It may be a trying time - you're forced to confront the real basis of what's underlying your life, whether your life is really as based on God as you claim it is, and how firm your faith is; but you can come out stronger in your faith afterwards, by starting to notice and get rid of some of the barriers that you put up yourself to stop God working in you.

I've started taking Jesus' principles and teachings considerably more seriously since doing Landmark courses - mostly because I've realised gradually more of the regions where I was skimping over them!

The idea of "we shouldn't let ourselves be 'changed' by man, only God has any business doing that" is a complete fallacy. If you believe that God can heal people physically by using doctors and hospitals, then equally He must be able to change our thought processes for the better using what we see and hear. (I know this won't be an issue for most Christians, but it was for me :o) )

You get progressively more and more insights into how you're coming across to other people - the things you're doing that can speak far louder than the words you're saying when you're trying to tell someone the Good News.

If you're open, you will discover benefits both in your personal life with God and in the way you relate to other people. In particular the Advanced Course and SELP are very largely concerned with "enrolling" people in ideas or possibilities for their own lives, which has obvious applications to the area of personal witness and evangelism.

However, in as far as the Forum encourages self-sufficiency (believing you can do anything whether God wills it or not) then yes, there is an obvious conflict. See the final question for more details.

The Forum encourages people to make the distinction between what is real (what actually happened) and their own interpretation of it. For us who know God exists, this has to be good news, as an awful lot of people in the world have inaccurate ideas about Christianity, Jesus and God, picked up during their past (maybe from bad experiences at Church or suchlike), which after doing the Forum they will realise are only their own interpretations. I've had several people in seminars and elsewhere say to me that since doing the Forum they've become open to the possibility of spirituality or God in their lives, and I've met one individual who went all the way and became a Christian after doing the Forum - "I couldn't keep up any of my objections to it any more..."

However, Landmark do teach that there is a way to fulfillment and satisfaction in life apart from a relationship with Jesus. They freely admit that they're only concerned with life before death, which from a Christian point of view seems short-sighted  ; but if someone is living the fully expressed and racket-free life that is possible after the Landmark curriculum, while they will be open to the possibility of Jesus if a Christian raises it, they won't be actively searching themself, but rather likely to be convinced that they've found the most fulfilling path there is.