Wednesday, October 17, 2007

What is your spiritual type?

Each day in my job, I get to visit with lots of people who are looking for a church or some kind of spiritual family. It would be ignorant of me to assume that everyone grew up just like me and have the same feelings about spirituality as I do. What I can assume is that everyone has feelings about spirituality...even if they don't consider themselves to be spiritual or religious.

I found a fun quiz to help me define my spiritual type. Click here to take the quiz. I learned that I am a Questioning Believer. Yep, that's about right! :) I'm strong in belief in the big stuff but I don't sweat the smaller issues that many people like to argue about. Actually, since college I've thought that it's okay to question God...how else am I going to work out what my beliefs actually are? I want to use the reasoning brain God gave me. Plus I'm stubborn and sometimes a hard sell so I have to ask questions.

It's interesting to look at the different Spiritual Types and then look at the different Christian denominations...the lines are almost perfectly drawn. If you wanted to, you could even put our familiar labels on these groups...all the way from conservative Christian to liberal left. To find out where you fit in on that continuum you first have to learn what kind of spiritual person you are; rather than WHAT you actually believe about every single issue. This way you have an avenue of growth rather than barriers to break down.

If you haven't already, take the quiz above...if nothing else, it is interesting to see if they have you pegged :)

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