PERSONALITY AND TEMPERAMENT

For you created my inmost being; you knot me together in my mother's womb. - Psalms 139:13. People are created with a certain bent and while we are born with a temperament, our personality develops as we grow up and it is affected by the genes we receive from our parents, decisions we make in life, and the effects of family and environment. People are very complicated, and it can be helpful to take personality into account when intereacting with others. People are very different and while we don't want to put people in a box or limit them through labels; we all tend to behave according to our personality/temperaments. We use the term personality and although there are many different versioins of personalities, we like John Trent and Gary Smalley's version of personalities based on animals. Click HERE to view our video discussing personalities. Your differences CAN work together! Click HERE for an article about reconciling your differences.

The Lion is the take charge, do it now sort of person.

The Otter is the outgoing fun loving person.

The Beaver is the thoughtful, analytical person.

The Golden Retriever is the calm, accomodating person.

Personalities

Use the resources below and discover your personality and that of your spouse, children, parents, friends, and family. It can be a fun and enlightening process to discover your personality. through the links and docuements below, you can learn about personalities and utilize that informaiton to improve allof your relationships. Have fun as you discover how you were created by our God.

Click HERE for a chart that helps define the personalities and see the different versions.
Click HERE for information about the four primary personalities.
Click HERE for more information about the personalities.
Click HERE for information about intereacting with the different personalities.
Click HERE for a chart to help you determine your child's personality.

The Wired That Way assessment and books have helped many gain insite to their differences. Click HERE for their assessment - HERE for their resources.

The DISC profile is also an excellent assessment and provides a lot of great information about personalities. Click HERE for a free DISC assessment online.

Strong Families provides some excellent information and a free personality assessment. Click HERE for their website.

Myers-Briggs is a personality standard that sorts individuals into 16 personality types. Click HERE for the 16 personalities test.

The Enneagram is a another version of personalities that seeks to help us understand ourselves and others - click HERE for a free Ennegram assessment.

Place Ministries has a great workbook - Finding Your Place in Ministry that helps discover personality, Spiritual Gifts and much more - great for couples, individuals, youth - anyone. They also have a lot of free resources. Click HERE for their website.

There are also great books to help your better understand personalities. Check out the books below - click on the book to find more information.