What’s your spiritual type? Online quizzes can grow faith by Jordan Taylor
Anyone who uses the internet has probably seen an ad or link with some silly or serious query meant to make you pause and maybe click. Questions like these can be hard to resist:
- In which Hogwarts house would you live in the Harry Potter universe?
- What 7 things make you different?
- Which breed of cat / dog are you?
From The Five Love Languages to the more recent popularity of the Enneagram, we long to find knowledge to better understand ourselves and the people around us.
How might we know more about ourselves as practicing Christians? A Spiritual Type Test, and the accompanying Discussion Guide, are offered by the Living Prayer Center, a ministry of the United Methodist Upper Room.
According to Beth Richardson, an editor and writer for The Upper Room, the spiritual type test is a mixture of Corinne Ware’s Spiritual Type Inventory and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The Spiritual Type test is composed of 15 questions, with four possible results:
- Sage– characterized by a thinking or head spirituality
- Lover– a feeling type, whose spirituality comes primarily from the heart / emotions
- Prophet– a crusader with a kingdom spirituality
- Mystic– known for imaginative, intuitive spirituality
These results illustrate (click here to read more)