God made every one of us very unique.
- Your personality is your character traits, your persona.
- A different personality is not wrong or weird.
- Many of our relational conflicts are directly related to our personalities.
- The common denominator in all of our relational conflicts is ME
- The good news is – if I change I am half-way home.
- Please animate
Why is it so hard to change?
- I have to admit I need to change?
- We fear that we aren’t going to be met have way.
Ground Rules
- No personality type is better or worse than another.
- Beware of the tendency to reduce people to a set of letters.
- Personality type is not a valid excuse for inappropriate behavior.
- God’s goal is to maximize your personality by producing the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
- Goal of this study is to reduce relational conflicts gaining Awareness, Appreciation and Acceptance of each persons uniqueness.
Basic Personality Types
- Extrovert
- Choleric
- Sanguine
- Introvert
- Melancholy
- Phlegmatic
Identifying the dominate personality.
1. Most D-personalities have an unusually strong sense of confidence.
2. Because D’s believe they can do anything … they desire control – of everything.
3. D-personalities prefer changing their environment over maintaining it.
4. D-personalities tend to emphasize tasks and results over ideas and people.
5. The greatest fear of a D-personality is losing … in every sense of the word:
6. Their greatest struggle, as you might imagine, is submitting to the leadership, authority and control of others.
Relating to the ‘I DO IT MY WAY’ Personality
Acts 22:3
3I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
Acts 22:4
4And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Acts 22:5
5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
Acts 22:6-8
6And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
7And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
8And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
Examples from the Divine Communicator
- Confrontation is necessary to get their attention. (Saul, Saul)
- Focus on how their actions affect you. (why are you hurting me?)
- Get to the bottom line quickly.
- Be Quiet, WAIT
- Reaffirm their value.