Abstract
Personality types can be understood as a key in the ecclesiological positioning of members of the church. The aim of this article is to emphasise the possibilities for the church of addressing members of different personality types as well as utilising them in order to build a bridge to the world. Personality types are not only a key in understanding members but also in engaging and utilising them in the church�s orientation to and task towards the world. To be a church of character in these times is a challenge in which personality types can be of help. In this article Gerben Heitink�s ecclesiological matrix is combined with the sixteen distinct MBTI� personality types to form a dynamic perspective as to how specific types can be addressed and utilised in order to be a church of character.
Highlights
Personality types as an ecclesiological key Personality types can be understood as a key in the ecclesiological positioning of members of the church
The aim of this article is to emphasise the possibilities for the church of addressing members of different personality types as well as utilising them in order to build a bridge to the world
To be a church of character in these times is a challenge in which personality types can be of help
Summary
Die doel van hierdie artikel is om aan te toon dat persoonlikheidstyle ‘n sleutel bevat vir die ekklesiologiese posisionering van lidmate in gemeenteverband en hulle benutting deur die gemeente in die gemeenskap. Die kerk bestaan uit lidmate met verskillende persoonlikhede en ‘n dinamiese wisselwerking daarvan wat die karakter van kerkwees bepaal. ‘n Kerk met karakter sal moet ruimte maak vir lidmate met verskillende persoonlikheidstyle en dié lidmate en hulle persoonlikhede beter in die bereiking van die gemeenskap benut. Die kerk as die gemeente van Jesus Christus het teologiese identiteit wat tegelykertyd gestalte kry as ’n dinamiese organisme én ’n gestruktureerde organisasie (Pieterse 1993:158). Al hierdie faktore kom vandag onder druk met die gevaar dat die kerk haar relevansie in die samelewing kan verloor en dus nie (meer) die brug kan slaan na die wêreld nie (Heitink 2007:37)
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