January begins our new sermon series Becoming Us. Over the next several weeks we all have a chance to get a new start in a new year on the road back to God so that we can all live more fully into who we were created to be. Becoming Us is focused around something that has become popular in Christian circles over the last couple of years.
It is called the Enneagram. It has gotten a lot of press lately. People are interested in it; they’re taking online tests, listening to podcasts and buying books (For example, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery, released at the end of 2016 and sold over 100,000 copies in just a little over a year. Or Richard Rohr’s book, The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective.
What is it? The Enneagram is a personality assessment tool with a Christian perspective based on a numbering system—one through nine—and your number helps to uncover your unique God-given personality traits. Think of any number of personality type tests like Myers Briggs, DISC, Strengths. Except this one’s focus is different.
The Nine Types of the Enneagram have been called “The Nine Faces of God.” Each type reveals something of God’s own nature. Each type is also a path toward transformation in Christ. It’s not just a way of being, it’s a way of becoming who we were made to be.
The Enneagram urges us to integrate head, heart, and hands. True worship and spiritual transformation is a process that includes thinking, feeling, and doing. That is what makes it different from just a personality test. And it is also important to remember that is just a tool of self-discovery and not directed by Scripture.
So here we go on a new journey with God and the road back to you. I hope you will join me as we learn more about one another, our relationships and how God created us uniquely. So the question I will be asking every week is What is your number?
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