Talking to some friends the other day, the subject turned to personality tests, and to Myers-Briggs. ‘What are you?’, we all wanted to know. And the conversation turned into a psychological ‘I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.’ Those kind of tests do have a useful place, and the MBPTI test in particular
A ministry apprentice once asked me a really sharp question. After meeting a number of pastors, all of whom paid particular attention to preaching, he asked, “Are all preachers introverts?” It’s a good question because it seems so counterintuitive at first. The last person he had met was well-known, with a large church and an
Well, that was interesting. My piece on introverts and preaching generated more hits than any other piece on this blog. What does that tell us? That lots of introverts use the web. Nothing to see here, move along please. Or, that lots of us find ourselves caught in the odd place of being happy in
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