Youve Got Personality

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Youve Got Personality!

• Part 4 of 5 in the series
• Discovering Your S-H-A-P-E
• March 22, 2009

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Youve Got Personality!

• Part 4 of 5 in the series
• Discovering Your S-H-A-P-E
• March 22, 2009

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(Gods) hands formed and shaped me... Job
108 (GN)
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Discovering your S-H-A-P-E Your hands shaped
me and made me Job 108a (NIV)
1. S Spiritual Gifts (1 Corinthians 124)
2. H Heart Passion (Proverbs 423)
3. A Abilities (Romans 126)
4. P Personality (1 Corinthians 126)
5. E Experiences (Romans 828)
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UNDERSTANDING WHY OTHERS MISUNDERSTAND YOU
God works through different people in different
ways. 1 Corinthians 126 (PH)
There is no right or wrong temperament.
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Some Personality Profile Instruments
The MMPI -- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory The Myers-Briggs Survey The
Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis
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Natural Blends
Sanguine Choleric Melancholy Phlegmatic Outgoing O
utgoing Introverted Introverted Optimistic Optimis
tic Pessimistic Pessimistic Outspoken Outspoken So
ft spoken Witty Decisive Goal-oriented Not
goal-oriented Easygoing Organized
Sanguine and Choleric are blood brothers
natural leaders. Phlegmatic and Melancholy are
blood brothers analytical. Sanguine and
Phlegmatic are kissing cousins tend to be play
oriented. Choleric and Melancholy are kissing
cousins tend to be work oriented.
The Sanguine and Melancholy are opposites. The
Choleric and Phlegmatic are opposites.
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Some Personality Profile Instruments
Uniquely You Membership Ministry Profile
www.UniquelyYou.net
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UNDERSTANDING WHY OTHERS MISUNDERSTAND YOU
No one can really know what anyone else is
thinking or what he is really like, except that
person himself. 1 Corinthians 211 (LB)
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HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHERS BETTER
1. Be aware of personality differences.
A mans wisdom gives him patience. Proverbs 1911
Esauloved the outdoors, but Jacob was a quiet
man who stayed at home. Genesis 2527 (GN)
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HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHERS BETTER
2. Accept personality differences.
Accept each other just as Christ has accepted
you. Romans 157
Let us stop turning critical eyes on one another.
Let us rather be critical of our own conduct and
see that we do nothing to make a brother stumble.
Romans 1413 (PH)
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HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHERS BETTER
2. Accept personality differences.
Generously make allowances for each other
because you love each other. Ephesians 42 (PH)
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HOW TO GET ALONG WITH OTHERS BETTER
3. Appreciate personality differences.
All of you together are the one Body of Christ
and each of you is a separate and necessary part
of it. 1 Corinthians 1227 (LB)
Have a profound respect for each other. Romans
1210 (JB)
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Application questions and exercises
1. Make a list of the strengths and weaknesses
that come with your personality type.
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Application questions and exercises
2. What does my personality indicate about the
type of job and ministry God wants me to have?
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Application questions and exercises
3. What kind of personalities might God bring
into my life in order to give me balance?
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Application questions and exercises
4. Who are the blood brother and kissing
cousin personality types in my life? How do our
similarities affect our relationship?
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Application questions and exercises
5. Who are the opposite personality types in my
life? In what ways are those people a challenge
to me and in what ways does it appear opposites
attract?
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Youve Got Personality!

• Part 4 of 5 in the series
• Discovering Your S-H-A-P-E
• March 22, 2009

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