A Portrait of Debbie Rader
Life Gifts
Teaching, Training, Listening,
Facilitating, Evaluate peoples character, Encourage,
Adventure Interpersonal risk taker, Persuade/Advocate, Promoting and Supplying
ambition and energy to tasks and people.
Passion
Seeing others happy in Christ,
Growth, Loving those around me
Personality Sanguine & ENFP
Outgoing, Responsive, Warm &
Friendly, Talkative, Enthusiastic, Compassionate
Spiritual Gifts
Faith—Ability to visualize something God wants done and to sustain unwavering
confidence that God will do it regardless of seemingly insurmountable
obstacles. Sometimes characterized by a die-hard
optimism.
A person with the gift of faith
has that ability to recognize what God wants accomplished as well as sustain a
stalwart (brave, determined, stong) belief that God
will see it done despite what others perceive as barriers.
Exhortation—Comfort, Console, Encourage, and Counsel others in a way that they
feel helped and healed. Life Keys calls it Encouragement/Counseling
– A person with the gift of encouragement has the ability to effectively
listen to people comforting, encouraging, and assisting them in moving toward
psychological and relational wholeness.
Teaching – A person with the gift of teaching has the ability to understand and
communicate God’s truths to others effectively – in ways that lead
to applications in their lives.
Personality type
ENFP - Champion
The Portrait of
the Champion Idealist (eNFp)
The Champion Idealists are abstract in thought
and speech, cooperative in accomplishing their aims, and informative and
extraverted when relating with others. For Champions, nothing occurs which does
not have some deep ethical significance, and this, coupled with their uncanny
sense of the motivations of others, gives them a talent for seeing life as an
exciting drama, pregnant with possibilities for both good and evil. This type
is found in only about 3 percent of the general population, but they have great
influence because of their extraordinary impact on others. Champions are
inclined to go everywhere and look into everything that has to do with the
advance of good and the retreat of evil in the world. They can't bear to miss
out on what is going on around them; they must experience, first hand, all the
significant social events that affect our lives. And then they are eager to
relate the stories they've uncovered, hoping to disclose the "truth"
of people and issues, and to advocate causes. This strong drive to unveil
current events can make them tireless in conversing with others, like fountains
that bubble and splash, spilling over their own words to get it all out.
Champions consider intense emotional experiences as being vital
to a full life, although they can never quite shake the feeling that a part of themselves is split off, uninvolved in the experience. Thus,
while they strive for emotional congruency, they often see themselves in some
danger of losing touch with their real feelings, which Champions possess in a
wide range and variety. In the same vein, Champions strive toward a kind of
spontaneous personal authenticity, and this intention always to "be
themselves" is usually communicated nonverbally to others, who find it
quite attractive. All too often, however, Champions fall short in their efforts
to be authentic, and they tend to heap coals of fire on themselves, berating
themselves for the slightest self-conscious role-playing.
IDEALIST NFs, being ABSTRACT
in communicating and COOPERATIVE in implementing goals, can become highly
skilled in DIPLOMATIC INTEGRATION. Thus their most practiced and developed
intelligent operations are usually teaching and counseling (NFJ mentoring), or
conferring and tutoring (NFP advocating). And they would if they could be sages
in one of these forms of social development. The Idealist temperament have an
instinct for interpersonal integration, learn ethics with ever increasing zeal,
sometimes become diplomatic leaders, and often speak interpretively and
metaphorically of the abstract world of their imagination.
They are proud of themselves in the degree they are empathic in action,
respect themselves in the degree they are benevolent, and feel confident of
themselves in the degree they are authentic. Idealist types search for their
unique identity, hunger for deep and meaningful relationships, wish for a
little romance each day, trust their intuitive feelings implicitly, aspire for
profundity. This is the "Identity Seeking Personality" -- credulous
about the future, mystical about the past, and their preferred time and place
are the future and the pathway. Educationally they go for the humanities,
avocationally for ethics, and vocationally for
personnel work.
Social relationships: In their family interactions they strive
for mutuality, provide spiritual intimacy for the mates, opportunity for
fantasy for their children, and for themselves continuous self-renewal.
Idealists do not abound, being as few as 8% and nor more than 10% of the
population.