What’s your personality type?
I am an introverted, sensing, thinking, judging personality. Brief description:
“In general, the ISTJ personality type has a tremendous amount of potential. Capable, logical, reasonable, and effective individuals with a deeply driven desire to promote security and peaceful living, the ISTJ has what it takes to be highly effective at achieving their chosen goals - whatever they may be.”
Many people find it difficult to get to know me and say that I do not interact with my employees enough as a leader. Therefore, most only have a perception of who I am. Only those individuals I deal with on a daily bases get to see who the real Ron is. I am an introverted person who finds it difficult to stop by and strike up conversations with people. For those of you who took an Organization behavior course, my personality type is an ISTJ “the Duty Fulfiller”. Go to this website for complete description ISTJ Full Description. The summary on this website is me all the way. I encourage you to read this description and then maybe you will understand a bit more of how I am wired up internally. I also write this blog where individuals can read some of the devotionals or watch my salvation testimony from 3 years ago, and get a glimpse of who I am to those who know me.
I remember having read on a website once, Thomas the disciple as having this personality type, but I also think Paul may have been defined as having this personality type as well or at least parts of it. Compare Paul and Barnabas back when they decided to split and go their separate ways. Barnabas was a people person, very relational. Paul cared about people but he focused more on the process more than the people. Process or People? I would say I focus more on the process. That doesn’t mean I don’t care about people because I do, but building a one-on-one relationship is not a primary driver for me. God used both Barnabas and Paul to further the cause of His kingdom. It does not mean one was right and the other was wrong. Neither personality type was wrong, just different. You see God created all these different personality types and all can be used to accomplish His work.
I think sometimes, in a “Christian” environment, people become so narrow minded that they think if someone does not approach a situation the way they (or their personality type would) that it is wrong or not honoring to God. I encourage before you judge or react to someone else’s way of approaching a situation that you first look to see if God is using them just the way they are.
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