Four Essentials of a Christian Life I have suggest that complete conversion to faith in God can be plotted on a chart. This post is an fuller explanation of the intersection between the heart, soul, mind and strength and conversion to the church. The second line in my chart above. Fellowship, Worship, Proclamation, […]
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Finally we get to the practical use of the Religious :Spiritual Direction. If you have not read the previous posts I suggest you go back to the first by clicking here. Let us now examine the relationships between the various modes we discovered in the combination of transactions I view some of these categories as
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The Justification mode is the last in this series. Next we will look at how they can be clues for Spiritual Direction. If you haven’t already you may want to read the other post on these topic first. Click here to begin. Another aspect of the Christian life and of conversion is the area of
Judgment Mode is the third post in the series of Religious Modes. If you landed here first you may want to go back to the first post:The Security Mode. Am I-syn-anti As with the other Religious Modes I am following Walter Lowen’s concept of “Ambi-syn-anti” to develop my reasoning. Also this depends upon his
After thinking about the religious mode, I decided to think about what gives us Security. i’ll begin thinking about the idea of awareness of our own imperfection as a dichotomy with awareness of a response to hurt. I consider them to be key factors in our overall sense of security. As with the discussion of
This chart of Personality Type Prayers has been around for while. I’d give credit but haven’t seen the author. Like many brief impressions these have a measure of truth but should not be taken as the whole story about any type. MBTI Types Prayers ENTP: Lord, help me follow established procedures today. On second
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Foundation of the Religious Mode is the next post in a series. It will be more understandable if you first read the first post. Much of this material is dependent upon Lowen’s discussion of entropy. The next step for Lowen was the levels of conscious outputs he labeled Work, Play, Challenge and Creativity. This is
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The Religious Mode is the first of four Christian modes. I developed these following Walter Lowen’s concepts of entropy. The Religious Mode is derived from the dynamic relationship between dependence upon God and independence of self. The Security Mode emerges from the dynamic relationship between awareness of imperfection in self and the response to hurt
It should come as no surprise that our personality type influences the ways we approach spirituality. To fully understand this section of my website please also read the section on personality type. I first became interested in personality type at a School of Pastoral Care in the early 1980’s it was then I first made
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I have reasoned that each of the MBTI types have a preferred Ministry Role. These reflect their preferred Transactional cording to Walter Lowen’s theory of Dichotomies of the Mind. If you have not already read about this please go to the sections of the wibesite dedicated to explaining his theory: How to Understand People. Compare
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