[Faith-talk] spiritual gifts inventories

[Sandra Streeter]

Really, Patrick, teaching? Maybe it’s my lack of experience, but I’ve never considered myself good at that! H’mm, looks like I’ll have to take one of those inventories, since it’s been at least 15 years since I have.

Mostafa I would guess, wants converts. He reminds me of someone who attended a local Bible study a few years ago, who went on a rant about “women should not teach”. Every comment was straight Scripture-text, to the point where I asked myself, “Does anyone actually live inside there—is there a real self in there?”; he just seemed so automaton-like, to me.

Debby, I love your considerations about adaptations to the MB—while I like it compared to the inventory that tried to place people in the categories of “melancholic, phlegmatic, choleric and sanguine”—in that the MB, at least, seemed to allow for changes in traits over a person’s lifetime—I still think the MB needs some refining, based on issues we’ve touched on and others that may be brought up here. I’m also thinking, the world has changed so much since I last took it, so maybe those changes have forged changes in others’ temperaments/proclivities, and the MB should account for that, as well. BTW, I know there are some ministries that have a person take the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Has anyone taken that, and what was it like? Is there an accessible version, and is it self-scaled or does it require a professional to interpret?



Sandra

Not “Revelation” – tis – that waits
But our unfurnished eyes –
(Emily Dickinson)

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