Personality type and theology

[Stephen L Smith]

Nice one Jimmy, now there's a personality. Fitted by upbringing to be a Harley Street specialist, but fitted by God to be a preacher. Never received a knighthood off the Queen, but crowned by the King of Kings. Even NZ recognised him!

Ah Jeff I shall have to admit defeat Dr Lloyd-Jones has been a spiritual father to me in many ways.

But NZ rugby is on a terrible moral decline. I heard on the news here that a major NZ rugby organisation had completed a 'rainbow' certified course so they are now a gay 'friendly' organisation. Shameful. But was encouraged by a sermon of the good Doctor. Have been listening to a powerful sermon on the 'Irrationality of unbelief'. Powerful and very relevant for our wicked generation https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons/the-irrationality-of-unbelief/

 

[Deleted member 7239]

No matter how we measure our baseline personality and behavioral traits (optimism, conscientiousness, neuroticism, etc.) -- I think we can all agree they do exist. Understanding one another is important if we are to relate to one another effectively. All this being said, our personality is not our identity since our identity is in Christ alone. Personality theory was developed by ungodly men such as Jung and Freud, but so much science, literature, etc. has been furthered by very intellectually gifted ungodly men and we can learn from them. We always realize that all scientific truth belongs to God and all intellectual gifting is from him.

My original point was to simply state that we each see the world through the lens of our own personality and being aware of that is probably a good idea. Going through life expecting everyone to be like us isn't reality.

http://headhearthand.org/blog/2017/09/18/godliness-is-not-your-personality/

 

[jwithnell]

In one leadership course I did, the test results showed your "usual" type and another for under stress. It made sense that I go into commander mode when stressed.

 

[Silas22]

ENTP- The Debater.

 

[Held Fast]

I have MBTI's from before regeneration, and several since; there was a radical shift between pre and post, which was meaningful to me. However over time, my score has flattened to the middle to where I can flip across the middle depending on where my head is that day ... I've taken it a lot.