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Your life is like a puzzle. The pieces fit together to make a whole. When you combine your spiritual gifts, personality, passions, and experience you will discover a picture which shows you how you can best serve the Lord with maximum effectiveness. ----YOUR MINISTRY PROFILE !

Your personality will lend expression to the way you exercise your spiritual gifts. It will help determine the fervor, flair, or fashion with which you pursue your heart's passions. It will flavor the way you interpret your experience.

The goal of understanding your personality is that you build on your strengths and work on the weaknesses, submitting all of who you are to the power and control of the Holy Spirit.
 
More: God's Perspective on Your Personality

While there are more complicated personality systems, the four basic temperaments described by Hippocrates, more than four hundred years before Christ, will give adequate input into your relational, leadership, serving, conflict, and management styles which are critical in finding your best fit in ministry. Through the years people have given these categories different names but they parallel the original distinctions made by Hippocrates.
 

Tim LaHaye, in Spirit-Controlled Temperaments and Florence Littauer in Personality Plus both go with the categorization of Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholy, and Phlegmatic.

The Institute for Motivational Living Inc. offers The DISC System -- D - Dominant Driver; I - Influencing Inspiring; S - Steady Stable; C - Compliant Correct. You can find information about the DISC at their website by clicking on the link above.

Gary Smalley and John Trent in their book The Two Sides of Love say there are Otters, Lions, Beavers, and Golden Retrievers.

For a secular approach, look at the Merrill-Reid Social Styles which you can read about in their book Personal Styles and Effective Performance, expanded upon by Bolton & Bolton in Social Style/Management Style. They use the terms Expressive, Driving, Analytical, and Amiable.

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