Discovering Your SHAPE PERSONALITY

Personality - 1 st Point: glasses  Our personality is like the glasses or contacts we wear.  Our personality is how we see life, it is what we use to look at the things around us.

Personality - 2 nd Point: don’t think about  We don’t think about our personality and … How this affects how we look at life.  How we relate to people.  How we gather information and analyze it.  How we make decisions.  How we order our life.

A fish that has always lived in water, doesn’t understand anything but living in water.

Questions for You: What is your personality? Are you using it correctly? Does it need to be changed or corrected? Does it need to be conformed to the likeness of Christ?

Quick Personality Test RoutineVariety Self-controlledSelf-Expressive CooperativeCompetitive People OrientedGoal or Task Oriented ControlRelax and Allow thing to happen naturally. Pro-ActiveReactive High-RiskLow-Risk

Quick Personality Test IntrovertExtrovert SensingIntuitive ThinkingFeeling Judging[Structured]Perceptive[Spontaneous]

Jesus’ Personality Extrovert & Introvert Luke 5:15-16 Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. 但耶穌的名聲越發傳揚出去．有極多的人 聚集來聽道、也指望醫治他們的病． 耶穌卻退到曠野去禱告。

Jesus’ Personality Sensing & Intuitive Thinking & Feeling  “Thinking” Making decisions using step by step logical approach. “Feeling” Making decisions by feelings – not rational thought but it is rational to those using it.

Mark 2:17 "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.“ Matt 15:8 "`These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” 這百姓用嘴唇尊敬我、心卻遠離我． Luke 7:47 But he who has been forgiven little loves little.“ 但那赦免少的、他的愛就少。

Luke 15:20 “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 於是起來往他父親那裏去。 相離還遠、他父親看見、就動了慈心、 跑去抱著他的頸項、連連與他親嘴。

Jesus’ Personality Judging (Structured) & Perception (Spontaneous)  “Judging” means having order and structure to life – a plan and a schedule.  “Perception” means being flexible and spontaneous.

Mark 6: Calling the Twelve to him, he sent them out two by two and gave them authority over evil spirits. 8 These were his instructions: “Take nothing for the journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. … 10 Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. 11 And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.” Matthew 9 Jesus interrupted by a ruler who needs his daughter healed … interrupted by a bleeding woman who needs healed.

BE WARE OF: My Personality shaped by Carnality (sin). My Personality shaped by Past Pain.

God wants to REDEEM / RESTORE YOUR PERSONALITY … 1. I Repent 2. Jesus Rules Lord Allow Jesus to be the Lord of your personality [life].

Our Personality Romans 羅馬書 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God‘s will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will. 不要效法這個世界．只要心意更新而變化、 叫你們察驗何為 神的善良、純全可喜悅的旨意。 Philippians 2:5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus. 你們當以基督耶穌的心為心。

Personality Differences & the Church

Serving God with My Personality. Extroverted / people – oriented / Unstructured – Sunday small group leader – impromptu evangelist – visiting hospital patients. Introvert / Task / Structured – Creating Web Design for Church / Teaching Baptism Class / Prayer Leader / written translation.

Question: What is your personality? And what are some things that you could adjust in the way you use your personality to better love God and others?