"Becoming Us Series" Tagged Sermons
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?
Becoming Us: Seven & Four, The Enthusiast & The Individualist
Each week we have been applying the Enneagram types to characters in the Bible and what we can learn from each of them about us and our relationships. So far we have learned about FIVE: The Investigator or Observer with the Magi, Thomas, and Nicodemus. EIGHT: The Challenger or Leader with John the Baptist and Samson. ONE: The Perfectionist with the Apostle Paul. TWO: The Helper with Mary and Martha. Then THREE: The Achiever with Jacob. SIX: The Loyalist with…
Becoming Us: Nine, The Peacemaker
Each week we have been applying the Enneagram types to characters in the Bible and what we can learn from each of them about us and our relationships. So far we have learned about FIVE: The Investigator or Observer with the Magi, Thomas, and Nicodemus. EIGHT: The Challenger or Leader with John the Baptist and Samson. ONE: The Perfectionist with the Apostle Paul. TWO: The Helper with Mary and Martha. THREE: The Achiever with Jacob. And last week it was…
Becoming Us: Six, The Loyalist
Each week we have been applying the Enneagram types to characters in the Bible and what we can learn from each of them about us and our relationships. So far we have learned about FIVE: The Investigator or Observer with the Magi, Thomas, and Nicodemus. EIGHT: The Challenger or Leader with John the Baptist and Samson. ONE: The Perfectionist with the Apostle Paul. TWO: The Helper with Mary and Martha. And last week it was THREE: The Achiever with Jacob.Now…
Becoming Us: Three, The Achiever
Each week we have been applying the Enneagram types to characters in the Bible and what we can learn from each of them about us and our relationships. So far we have learned about FIVE: The Investigator or Observer with the Magi, Thomas, and Nicodemus. EIGHT: The Challenger or Leader with John the Baptist and Samson. ONE: The Perfectionist with the Apostle Paul. And last week it was TWO: The Helper with Mary and Martha.Now it is the time of…
Becoming Us: Two, The Helper
Each week we have been applying the Enneagram types to characters in the Bible and what we can learn from each of them about us and our relationships. So far we have learned about FIVE: The Investigator or Observer with the Magi, Thomas, and Nicodemus. EIGHT: The Challenger or Leader with John the Baptist and Samson. And last week it was ONE: The Perfectionist with the Apostle Paul. This week it is TWO: The Helper. There are a lot of…
Becoming Us: One, The Perfectionist
Each week we have been applying the Enneagram types to characters in the Bible and what we can learn from each of them about us and our relationships. So far we have learned about FIVE: The Investigator or Observer with the Magi, Thomas, and Nicodemus. Last week it was EIGHT: The Challenger or Leader with John the Baptist and Samson.This week is ONE: The Perfectionist. You’re strong-willed and justice-oriented, and you’re willing to take a stand for what you care…
Becoming Us: Eight, The Challenger
Each week we are applying the Enneagram types to characters in the Bible and what we can learn from each of them about us and our relationships. Today is EIGHT: The Challenger or The Leader or Boss. This week’s EIGHT has a big part to play in our remembering our baptism as we do each year on this Sunday in January. Who is it? What makes them an EIGHT? Find out Today and that maybe you are an EIGHT too.…
Becoming Us: FIVE, The Story of the Magi
Then we will be applying the Enneagram types to characters in the Bible and what we can learn from each of them about us and our relationships.This week is FIVE: The Observer or Investigator. I chose this type first because our main stars for tomorrow are the Magi and their visit to the King of Kings. And I can’t think of better FIVEs than these astronomers and court sages ( wise men). What makes them a FIVE? Find out this…