With biblical presuppositions and ethical guidelines, behaviorism can be a valuable tool for Christians. Powerful tools in the wrong hands can result in terrible consequences. A number of psychologists, including many who are not Christians, have voiced similar concerns. Schaeffer asks who controls the controllers. In response it can be asserted that control is ultimately reciprocal.
Leaders certainly influence their followers, but followers can also influence their leaders.
Schaeffer's comment regarding the inconsistency of any value, including human survival, with behavioral philosophy is well stated. His comments on the uniqueness of humanity as resulting from being made in the image of God, are particularly valuable. Behaviorism demonstrates the commonality of creation which produces the similarity between people and animals. Skinner's operant conditioning technology, as well as all other scientific truth, has been discovered in God's natural revelation. If conditioning is used by Christians, choice should be recognized through informed consent and other ethical provisions.