In 2019, Pastor Barrett introduced the congregation to the Enneagram through a Sunday Night Live discipleship training as well as Adult VBS. Below is an overview of what was learned.
Overview
The Enneagram is a tool that helps people discover their true selves (i.e. soul). It is not intended to replace the Bible or God, but it does provide a systematic guide that helps people identify their personalities, weaknesses, sins, joys, and egoic trends. By discovering ourselves on a deep level, we can then explore ways to become more conscious.
This highly sophisticated tool, helps point people to ways to shed their ego in order to find a path that leads towards repentance, forgiveness (of self), and, ultimately, back to our true Essence (our soul). Below are helpful resources that point you into further study.
Free Enneagram Test
Institute for Conscious Being - Howell Enneagram Test
Ennegram Institute - Free Short Version Test
Enneagram Books
Enneagram Websites
FAQs
What are the Nine Types? https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions
What is the ego?
What is the soul or Essence?
What is our soul-child?
An Introduction to the Enneagram
Dr. Joe Howell is a clinical psychologist who practices in Anniston, Alabama. Having received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1979. In his ground-breaking book; Becoming Conscious: The Enneagram's Forgotten Passageway, Dr. Howell reveals simple, yet profound ways to know our deepest selves and the other people in our lives.