Beyond Personality: How We Would View the Gospel if We Knew Ourselves
If you've been running around in any young Christian circles lately, you've probably found yourself in a conversation about your Enneagram type, or perhaps your Myers-Briggs . Or maybe you've been listening to Christian radio, where songs written about fear (writing to fear, personifying fear, etc.) have become nearly as common as songs about God's love. What do all of these new trends have in common? They are examples of psychological principles being applied within the Christian worldview. And they are proving very useful to many, helping Christians understand their tendencies, both positive and negative, so that they can address their personality and see how the gospel can redeem it. The more and more I see Christians obsessing over the Enneagram or over their "root fears," however, I notice that key elements of Christian doctrine frequently get swept to the side. I want to focus this blog post on how I have noticed the impact of psychology on th