Understanding our personality, mental and emotional health

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Understanding our personality, mental and
emotional health

• A self analysis tool!

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Created in His Image?

• God has a personality and so He created us with a
  personality as well.
• God has a mind and so He created us with a mind
  too!
• God has a emotions, He loves, weeps, and
  experiences anger, and so He made us with
  emotions as well.

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You are the genius of Gods creation!!!

• The Bible says that we are fearfully and
  wonderfully made.
• Psalm 119 verse 73.Thy hands made me and
  fashioned me!
• Ecclesiastes 7 verse 29. God made men upright.
• Psalm 139 verse 14. I am fearfully and
  wonderfully made.

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The diversity of human gender, physiology,
personality etc.

• Personality types
• Sanguine
• Melancholy
• Choleric
• Phlegmatic
• Physiology
• Short, tall, big, small, blonde, black, blue,
  grey, green, brown.

• Speech
• - language, writing, oral, pictographic etc.
• Gender
• - male, female etc.
• Race
• - Asiatic, Arab, European, Latino, Polynesian,
  Melanesian, Micronesian.

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What is your personality like?

• Are you the popular Sanguine?
• Or the perfect Melancholy?
• Or the powerful Choleric?
• Or the Peaceful Phlegmatic?

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• Your Personality Profile?
• Please complete the questions sheets that
  develop your personality profile and complete a
  quick self-examination of who you are?

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What do these terms mean?

• The Popular Sanguine?
• The Perfect Melancholy?
• The Powerful Choleric?
• The Peaceful Phlegmatic?
• These terms describe a style/type of personality
  and you may be one, two or even part of three of
  these styles.
• They help us understand ourselves and others we
  know and live or work with.

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The Popular Sanguine

• An appealing personality
• Talkative storyteller
• Enthusiastic and Expressive
• Curious
• Volunteers for jobs
• Inspires and charms others
• Makes friends easily

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The Perfect Melancholy

• Deep, thoughtful, analytical
• Serious and purposeful
• Genius, intelligent
• Talented and creative
• Likes detail, charts, graphs etc
• Organised, neat and tidy
• Perfectionist
• Economical
• Deep compassion and concern

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The Powerful Choleric

• Born leader, strong-willed and decisive
• Compulsive need for change
• Goal oriented, organises and delegates well
• Thrives on opposition and emergencies
• Usually right and has little need for friends

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The Peaceful Phlegmatic

• Easy going personality
• Calm, patient, well- balanced
• Has administrative ability
• Mediates problems
• Easy to get on with
• Has many friends
• A good listener

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Our mind and emotions have a powerful affect on
our personality!

• Sometimes our emotions are so strong they
  over-ride our mind and cause us to react to
  people and situations.
• We need to have healthy minds and emotions if we
  are going to be good leaders and servants of
  Christ. Our emotions and will need to be
  submitted to Christ and His Spirit at work in our
  lives.

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Lets evaluate our mental and emotional health?

• A self-analysis exercise
• Use the sheet provided and answer the 25
  questions.
• Rate each question with a 1 5 rating. 1 being
  Never and 5 being Always.
• Add the total score for the 25 questions.
• If your score is 65-94 thats good but this
  exercise has helped identify your low areas and
  to be more holistic in your mind and emotions
  give attention to these areas.
• If your score is 95-114 your are an emerging
  leader, well discipled and suitable as a
  leader/trainer of others.
• The score 115-125 is excellent. You have a
  holistic worldview and have been able to apply
  Biblical truth to every area of your life.
• If your scored 64 or below we will allow some
  time for a personal interview to help you map a
  path of development

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Diversity in the Body of Christ is its strength!

• The Apostle Paul taught us in I Corinthians 1214
  that there are many parts to the Body, many
  gifts, many ministries and many leadership roles
  and styles. All are needed, all are good.
• We should view our trainee and slum communities
  in the same way. Celebrate the diversity. Male,
  female, mixed race, many worldviews, religions
  personalities etc.
• God created diversity. God is flamboyantly
  creative. It is mans small mindedness that seek
  uniformity.

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Does our diversity of personality have a purpose?

• No member of the Body is complete in themselves
• We need each other
• Our strengths compliment each others strengths
• This makes us into the Body of Christ, just as
  the members of our own body are diverse, but all
  are needed.
• Diversity makes the Church strong.

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What is the goal of the Church? A living
community

• Greek word katartizo meaning the mended nets
• loving, knit relationships .
• We are to knit people together in communities
  that will love, care, teach, encourage, prosper
  etc.
• To be the Bride of Christ

• To be an example of godly, loving community in
  Christ-likeness
• We need to live in a community that sharpens our
  views, challenges the way we do things. A diverse
  Body does that. We sharpen one another as we
  appreciate our uniqueness.

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The Acts Church an example of a strong
community!

• Acts 2 41-47
• Devoted
• Teaching
• Fellowship
• Holy meals
• Prayer
• Sincerity of heart
• Sensed Gods presence
• Sharing wealth
• Hospitality

• Praise
• Great joy
• Worship
• Burden for souls
• Evangelistic zeal
• House based
• Signs and wonders
• Apostolic leaders
• Favor with the community

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The Acts Church learned to value its diversity..

• The Acts Church started with a mono-cultural
  group of people but quickly became multi-cultural
  and that added great strength to the early
  Church.
• Africans, Middle Easterners, Europeans, Asians
  all added their strengths to the Body, all became
  valued members.

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Bringing people to maturity

• Making disciples
• Encouraging obedience to Christs commands
• Developing a motivation based on loveJn1334
• Being fruitful John 15
• Becoming leaders in the community

• Counting the Cost
• - Developing healthy human relationships
• - Laying down personal ambitions
• - Re-evaluating our attachment to personal
  possessions

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The unified self is made in the image of God
Genesis 127

• We are like God with relationships and
  responsibilities over creation
• Relationships Dominion
• with God - over creation
• with family - control realms
• with others - direct events

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Trainers need these tools to understand their
trainees!

• These personality, mental and emotional health
  tools are helpful for trainers to understand
  their trainees/interns and help build them into a
  healthy community.
• When recruiting use these tools with the
  potential new recruits, so your can understand
  them and their needs.
• Become familiar with these tools, use them among
  you family as a means of practicing your skills.

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