Aug 31, 2010
What's Your Church Personality
By Timothy R Butler | Posted at 6:47 AM
For one of my classes, Ministry Leadership, we had to take a “church personality” test. It is a diagnostic rather like the Myers-Briggs, but not entirely so. In the test, which I linked to on Facebook a few days ago, apparently I came out as an ICF (“Relational Church”) personality.
If you'd like to give the diagnostic a spin, you can get to it here. Dr. Douglass hired me to write the little program that works with his formulas a few years back. Needless to say, it was rather fun to then have need of taking the very same diagnostic!
In any case, apparently, Dr. Douglass developed the test to help make people aware of differing ministry styles with the goal of minimizing the potential for church conflict. Consider me intrigued.
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Re: What's Your Church Personality
Right. The idea — which Dr. D describes in his book on the subject — is that you have about 30 “opinion leaders” (not necessarily entirely overlapping with the “official” leadership) take it and then you synthesize the results.
As for individuals, the results are geared to helping those going into ministry understand how their ministry styles relate to the style of the church they are going to serve in.