I am happy to have read the book. So much of it made sense. (I DO have some questions, though, that I'll save for another post.) I've taken the test and I'm fairly unsure where it leads or how I ought to proceed.
After the statistical "norm"ing, nothing rose much above anything else. At the risk of showing myself drastically under-cultivated in ALL areas, I'm just going to lay out my scores and ask for guidance.
[Profile Values from pg. 70]
Mystical (top) 103
Enthusiastic (wing) 102
Now it's opposite style(s),
Doctrinal 102
Scripture-Driven 102
and Mystical's other wing,
Sacramental 101
My lowest were
Ascetic 97 (which I presume makes sense considering my higher score on Sacramental)
Sharing 95 ("Approach Evangelism," as I call it, is not my calling, though I will talk and pray all night and day with anyone approaching me.
So, no matter how hard I've swung the sledge hammer on the carnival "Strong Man Test," I don't appear to have come close to ringing that bell on the top of any of them -- though I don't feel particularly "weak."
Then having read through Part II, I find myself agreeing with (and identifying with) the general descriptions of each style (at least to the level I agree with the answers I gave on the test), yet I strongly dis-identify with many of the Style-Stances taken by the Mentors that Christian chose to show as representative. Strangely, I have a very keen understanding and appreciation of his Mystical Mentor, Ole, where I imagine others might balk. And here, I too top-out as Mystical (by One point). Still, I don't embrace the New Age (...Been there. Left that....)
I guess, my question is: When having opposites so close in ranking to each other, Where do you suggest I begin? If I'd scored anything in the 110's to 130, the choice might have been simple. I'm not second guessing myself that I should retake the test in an effort to score higher than my honest effort. That would feel false (and likely unfruitful).
I don't mean to be a bother. I'm happy to be a brother.
Blessings,
Marc