MBTP Extended ENTP Profile
ENTP stands for extroverted intuitive thinking perceiving. The Competence portion of the Work mode for ENTP is the transactional role of Suspector. The corresponding ministry role is Minister of Spiritual Gifts.
SUSPECTOR
The Suspector is trying to find a strategy or logic behind a given pattern. The detective is the obvious example. He or she searches the data, until a pattern of clues is discovered. Then the task becomes one of developing a strategy to link the pattern to the suspect. The Suspector formulates a plan from an observed collection of data. So a football coach might be a good Suspector. He scouts the opposing team to detect their weak points and then plans a strategy to defeat them.
MINISTER OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS
In this category, I am speaking of the nine-fold Gifts of the Spirit (What we have discussed as the power to say, know, and do). This ministry role is connected to the capacity of Suspector, as it takes a bit of detective work to know which gift to use in any given situation. Also the Suspector capacity is strongly influenced by the intuitive function. It is dependent upon inspiration. The ENTP detective is sure of the worth of his or her inspirations. They are tireless with the problems involved. Those who minister in Spiritual Gifts exhibit this assurance, only in this case we call it faith!
Lowen suggests that this type might be involved in strategic planning. Perhaps a pastor would be wise to find an ENTP for the long range planning or mission strategy committees.
The Talent portion of the ENTP Work mode has the transactional role of Analyst. The corresponding ministry role is Preacher of Salvation.
ANALYST
The Analyst finds logic in structures. He takes information that consists of structured data and logically processes them into structured concepts. This role is acted out in the professions of applied science, math and physics. It is also helpful in medicine for diagnosis, and a role useful to lawyers. This is the most sophisticated of the roles involving the most intricate of the mental capacities.
PREACHER OF SALVATION
If you take a moment to reflect, you will recall that most SalvationPpreachers have developed a systematized understanding of salvation. This may seem like an event, a flash in time, or it may be viewed as taking a long time. Either way, the Preacher will have some kind of sequential understanding. It might be the Four Spiritual Laws or a twelve-point scale of readiness for evangelism. Even the simple statement of Justin Martyr reflects an analysis of salvation. “He became as we are so that we might become as He is.” The Preacher of Salvation has analyzed God’s plan for the universe and wants to proclaim it to anyone who will listen. You may recall that Duniho suggests that ENTP is Jesus’ type. He said, “The Kingdom of God is near, repent and believe the Good News.” (Mk. 1:14) Perhaps, the apostle Paul was also an ENTP.
The Perseverance portion of the Play mode for the ENTP is the transactional role of Operator. The corresponding ministry role is Be Jesus as the Church.
OPERATOR
The role of Molder is foremost a hands on activity. The Operator might operate a word processor, a scalpel, or a socket wrench. Also like Molder, the Operator can operate people, institutions, or ideas, as well as things. They might be store managers or policemen, as well as secretaries or surgeons. The Operator can read the environment and then act upon it. The environment might be a gang fight or car engine.
BE JESUS AS THE CHURCH
In this ministry role, the environment is the church and its surroundings. Here the Operator’s tool is not a scalpel or a wrench, it is the church! This type asks how can I use the church building to minister to the kids down the block? How can we help flood victims in California? How can the church be Jesus? The contrast between this and making the church be Jesus is one is focused on changing the church, to make it more like Jesus. The other is focused on using the church, as it is, to be Jesus now!
One can imagine an ENTP bishop, following in the steps of Paul, building strategies and long range plans for His diocese. He might see the church at the judicatory level as an instrument of the body of Christ bringing the Gospel of Salvation to the world. There is no doubt that this is a task that takes perseverance.
The Relax position of the Play mode for the ENTP has the transactional role of Implementor. Its parallel ministry role is Peace and Justice Worker.
IMPLEMENTOR
An Implementor is someone who sorts out the routines of life. Lowen tells us that he almost called this transaction engineer. The engineer uses the routines he or she knows regarding speed, stress, temperature, etc. to create a machine or build a rocket. As with other roles we have discussed, the Implementor can also be focused upon more abstract things. The Implementor makes a good administrator who can mesh all the routines of an organization into a smoothly running whole.
PEACE AND JUSTICE WORKER
The distinction between this ministry role and Social Justice Program Developer seem slim. However the Developer is more likely to create a new program, whereas the Peace and Justice Worker will execute an existing program. The Program Developer using his organizing skills might bring several churches and or organizations together to fight discrimination in the city. However, once a plan is in place, the extroverted Implementor is better able to work the pieces of the system to get results.
Again we can imagine how useful it would be to have a bishop who found administration relaxing! Moreover, it is often at the diocesan or judicatory levels that the bigger issues of Social Justice are addressed.
The Challenge mode for the ENTP has in the Toil position the transactional role of Composer. Its corresponding ministry role is Apologist.
COMPOSER
The Composer role harmonizes the combinations. This could be words in a poem or couples at a dinner party. This role is alert to issues of human sensitivity, and issues of spirituality. They often gravitate to the professions of counseling and psychology as well as the arts.
APOLOGIST
Composers are looking for the harmony in combinations. The ministry role of Apologist is one that attempts to help the culture outside of Christianity, find a point of contact with the faith. Apologists are defenders of the faith. Their focus is on helping the outsider understand and even come to accept the faith as both reasonable and good. C.S. Lewis used his composing role to write in two styles. He wrote objective logical arguments and wonderful fictional fantasizes. Each presents Christianity as reasonable, good, and true understandings of life. The fantasies are especially useful as a non threatening way to present Christianity to unbelievers. Hence they are good apologies.
The theological word for the challenge mode is call. One might well imagine our ENTP bishop feels called to be a defender of the faith. Apologist is one of a bishop’s designated duties.
The Serendipity position of the Challenge mode of the ENTP includes the transactional role of Critic. Its ministry role equivalent is Worship Planner and Evaluator.
CRITIC
This role is involves very astute, critical listening, with exacting interpretation that notes the differences in meanings in words like lied, falsified, distorted, misinterpreted, and misunderstood. The exacting nature is typical of detailed transaction. This transaction is vital to many professionals, including speech therapists, voice coaches, theater critics, political analysts, interviewers, copy editors and opera singers. This transaction typically prefers to listen rather than speak.
WORSHIP PLANNER/EVALUATOR
There is a more obvious connection to this ministry role than some of the others. Worship is in many ways a divine drama. The choice of words is important. How and when, they are spoken is important. The nuances of their theological implications are important. The mood they create or destroy are important. It is important to have a ministry role to help make these decisions.
Our hypothetical Bishop has many opportunities to plan and evaluate worship. Week by week, he is in a different church every Sunday. A sensitive ENTP Bishop will remember to salt the critique with lots of affirming words.
The Creativity mode of the ENTP has in the Lock position the transactional role of Doer. Its ministry role is Minister in the Church.
DOER
The Doer role is one involving body output. Doers professions including everything from athlete and related professions, such as dancer, to such jobs as farmer or shepherd. Doers are most alert to signals from their own body, which they act upon as they match them to their memories similar signal in the past. The dancer knows what the right step feels like. The farmer recognizes with his senses, when the crop is ready for harvest.
MINISTER IN THE CHURCH
The ministry role I have labeled Minister in the Church is a Doer role. This might include anything from a member of the altar guild, who knows just the best way to polish the silver and clean the linens to the maintenance committee who cares for the building. It might include members of the hospitality committee, who always know how to make the coffee taste just right and decorate the hall in an attractive manner.
Remember that in the Creativity mode, each type is moving into the areas of the unconscious. Our hypothetical bishop would be well advised to maintain an exercise program to offset the desk work and extra parish suppers. Plus some hands-on ministry will help keep him grounded in the everyday reality of the people.
The Key portion of the Creativity mode includes the transactional role of Follower. Its parallel ministry role is Servant of Evangelism.
FOLLOWER
The Follower is a very service oriented skill. The mental capacities of 3 (Contrast) and 4 (Control) lend themselves to the behavior of following directions. Nurses for example receiving many hours of training. This training includes primarily the memorizing of long list of do’s and don’ts. The nurse’s job is to manipulate the body to act in accordance with these clear-cut instructions. They get instructions from a doctor and learn the movements in nursing school.
A trained musician does the same thing. However, many hours of repetitive actions, called practice, help them to perform under the direction of the music or follow the conductor’s wand.
SERVANT OF EVANGELISM
The Servant of Evangelism is likewise a Follower. He or she has a desire to help others into the Kingdom of God. They are concerned that others be brought to Christ. But being Followers, rather than Initiators, and introverted rather than extroverted, they prefer to be of service to another. They would rather play a supportive role. They are the nurses in the field of evangelism, rather than the doctors.
Jesus taught the disciples to be servants. He washed their feet to make an example for them. Our imaginary ENTP bishop would be in good company to take advantage of opportunities to practice the servant ministry of deacons. Also remember that the Creativity mode hold the hidden agenda for the Work mode. The reason our ENTP bishop ministers in spiritual gifts is to promote evangelism. The gifts are not an end in themselves, but serve to build up the body of Christ.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS
The ENTP should look for assistance in the following gifts of the Spirit. The gifts of apostle, wisdom, discernment, faith, and knowledge will be active in the Work mode. However, these may be viewed or experienced more as natural talents than spiritual gifts. An attitude of humility and gratitude can enhance their spiritual effectiveness. This will be true in the Play mode, but to a slightly lesser degree. Here the ENTP might anticipate an experience of the gifts of service and administration. In the more unconscious Challenge mode, the ENTP may find the Lord moving in his or her life through the spiritual gifts of pastor, prophesy, exhortation, tongues, interpretation of tongues, and emotional healing. Lastly in the Creativity mode, and perhaps most importantly, the ENTP might experience helps, mercy, evangelism, hospitality, and physical healing. These will likely be viewed as the most Godly of the gifts. Because of their unconscious nature the ENTP will have to exercise greater will to accept them.
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