Are you a person ‘worth watching’ – for all the right reasons?

Catherine Haddow  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Oct 2022
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Are you a person ‘worth watching’  – for all the right reasons?

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Glen Scrivener’s article in the July 22 issue ‘Blokes worth of en, watching’, has helpfully generated much discussion regarding evangelical church cultures.

A related theme concerns how much our churches embrace ‘personality’ culture. Personality is a term which evokes a range of semantics; it is a heavily loaded word. What does it bring to your mind? Some might immediately think of personality inventories prevalent in society today or the common measures they show. Alternatively, we might find ourselves thinking of well known ‘evangelical personalities’ almost akin to the celebrity culture that grips our world.

Personality is not a term found in Scripture, yet we all know the power personality has. The impact personality has on us, or on others, suggests Christians cannot simply dismiss it as something reserved for psychological textbooks. We need to engage with personality Biblically; there are dangers to the church when we don’t.

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