Session #2 - Your Personality
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Follow-Up
Follow-Up
What did you kid’s learn about your Dad’s?
Session Intro
Session Intro
Video Clip - Disney movie “Soul”
Galatians 4:9
Who is it that God is knowing? Do you know who you are?
Dad’s, do you know your sons?
Being Known
Garden - Adam “knew” Eve (intimacy on every level)
Every hair on your head
What is a Personality?
What is a Personality?
One’s personality is multi-layered that involves a cluster of ideas
Definition = A unique set of personal traits and preferences
It’s how we react to things, how we do things, how we relate to people, and how we prefer to live
It’s really who we are and what we’re really like
There are different types of personalities
Jacob/Esau = Savvy mama’s boy vs. rugged hunter
Peter/John = Rough around the edges (big heart, raw leadership and tons of energy) vs. apostle of love
Prodigal Son vs. Older Brother
Scripture + history shows us that God uses all types of personalities for His kingdom
Everyone’s Personality Is Broken (“Torn Up”)
Everyone’s Personality Is Broken (“Torn Up”)
Elements of personality are not simply psychological neutralities
No human personality escapes the light of it’s creator nor the darkness of our fall
Our personality is made in God’s image
It reflects Him in ways intended by His design
So God created human beings in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Our personality is marred by sin
We are prone to choose autonomy (“me”) over trusting God and sin over obedience
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Nature/Nurture = Your own personal brokenness or the brokenness of others has helped shape who you are in Christ
Nature = Choices you have made
Jacob reaching for his brother’s heal at birth
In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel;
as a man he struggled with God.
“Jacob” means = “Take by the heel” w/the derived meaning of ‘to deceive, attack from the rear’ or schemer
Nurture = How people have treated you and how you have reacted to the treatment of others (we adapt in order to be liked)
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.”
“Here I am,” he answered.
Isaac said, “I am now an old man and don’t know the day of my death. Now then, get your equipment—your quiver and bow—and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. Prepare me the kind of tasty food I like and bring it to me to eat, so that I may give you my blessing before I die.”
Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau left for the open country to hunt game and bring it back, Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Look, I overheard your father say to your brother Esau, ‘Bring me some game and prepare me some tasty food to eat, so that I may give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.’ Now, my son, listen carefully and do what I tell you: Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it. Then take it to your father to eat, so that he may give you his blessing before he dies.”
All our personalities stand as evidence of God’s image in us but are corrupt and distorted by sin
Christian worldview = Nature/nurture are both involved in the formation of the personality
Traits spring (to some degree) from God’s custom design for our bodies and souls
Cultivated (to some degree) by the many environmental factors He uses to shape us along the way
Identifying Different Personalities
Identifying Different Personalities
People have been studying human personalities for thousands of years
Hippocrates (‘Father of Medicine’) was the first to define ‘four temperaments’ (460 - 370 B.C.)
Choleric
Phlegmatic
Melancholic
Sanguine
William Marston (1920’s and 30’s) developed the DISC model of human behavior
DOMINANT personalities like to be in control
RELATIONAL personalities like to be with other people and are fun to be around
STEADY personalities are dependable workers and good listeners
DETAIL people like to do things right
Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life) believes there are four personalities
TALKERS - Love to talkImportant b/c communication is very important in life
FEELERS - Feel things deeplyImportant b/c compassion is so important in life
THINKERS - Analytical people who like to think through thingsImportant b/c reflection is so important in life
DOERS - Get-er-done people Important b/c life works best when things get done
Myers-Briggs (most famous)
Jesus Is Redeeming Your Personality
Jesus Is Redeeming Your Personality
Through the Gospel, God is resurrecting and renewing us in the image of Christ
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
“Set your hearts” = Passions and desires
“Set your minds” = Thought life
Set your strength
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
“New self, which is being renewed” = No aspect of our personhood, including our personality, is left unchanged
Through faith our whole being dies and rises with Christ, including those unique qualities and characteristics that make us us!
Our personalities are redeemed and being regenerated and renewed and reformatted.
How obvious this renewal is depends on how blatantly and observably our personalities had been marred by sin
Salvation does not dehumanize us but makes us more human, the way we were intended to be!
Quote: “Compelled by the holy love of Christ’s Spirit, our personalities, like the rest of us, freely enlist in the glad service of love. No longer do we follow mantras like “you do you” or “just be yourself.” Instead, our personalities mature and grow, with the gospel energy of our regenerate life pressing our temperaments into a cruciform shape and coloring our hearts with a new creation hue. We grow into a vibrant, joyful life of sacrifice, following the promptings of love and happily laying aside even those aspects of our personality or preferences that are uniquely comfortable to us.” - David Gunderson blog Why Your Persoanlity Shapes Everything You Do In Ministry
Example -Esau
God gave Jacob a new name = Israel (“Prince with God” - cf. Gen. 32:22-23)
Jacob seeks reconciliation with Esau (cf. Gen. 33)
Conclusion/Next Steps
Conclusion/Next Steps
Let Jesus Use You
Who you are is a strength to the kingdom of God
Find a place to serve that reflects your personality
Take some time to review/talk about the personality documents with your sons (2 handouts)
Identity your personality and his as well
As you know, we as Father’s have the opportunity to help our boys learn and develop who God has created us to be.
I want to help you facilitate that conversation tonight by having a guided discussion with your sons.
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