If you have any negative feelings toward the rational style or toward people who have that style, right now, spend a few moments in prayer asking God's forgiveness and for him to renew your mind. Ask God to help you separate the perils from the strengths of that style so that you might one day fully embrace the strengths.
Or...
Visit the web site below and look for a topic that catches your attention. Regardless of the stated or possible beliefs of the person presenting the ideas, read, listen or watch their presentation and ask yourself the following three questions...
1. What can I learn about God or God's creation from this person?
2. How could or should this person's research shape my day-to-day spiritual life?
My wife and I both have taken the 3 colors of Ministry, Love and Spirituality.
My Spiritual style is very Green (Sensory with a Rational wing).
My love themes are evenly split between green (justice) and blue (grace) with red (truth) trailing.
My Gifts are dominantly (half) blue and my starting point is also blue (Mary).
Memorise the Motto, Focus, and key Scripture for the rational style.
Motto: understanding the nature of God
Focus: logic & science
Key Scripture: By wisdom the Lord laid the earth's foundation, by understanding he set the heavens in place. (Proverbs 3:19)
-- Visit the web site: http://www.3colorsofyourspirituality.org
Right now, spend a few moments in prayer asking God, in your own words, for a greater appreciation of logic and science in your relationship with him. Say honestly how you feel about the rational style.
Be sure to leave yourself a moment when you've finished to see if God brings anything to your mind about the topic.
Note down anything you sense during this time.
Arrange to pray together with a friend (or two) at some time during the next few days. Set aside enough time that it would be a stretch. That might mean 15 minutes, half an hour, an hour or more depending on how long you would usually pray with another person.
In any discussion that reflects different opinions today, present your perspective, but also change positions to present what you agree with or see as positive about any of the other opinions expressed.
As required, finish by expressing your considered opinion, belief or preference, but only after fully embracing what you can from the other people's perspectives.
What would it require for you personally to obey Jesus' command to more fully "love the Lord with all your mind" (Mark 12:30).
Note down your thoughts.
-- Visit the web site: http://www.3colorsofyourspirituality.org
If you have any negative feelings toward the rational style or toward people who have that style, right now, spend a few moments in prayer asking God's forgiveness and for him to renew your mind. Ask God to help you separate the perils from the strengths of that style so that you might one day fully embrace the strengths.
Or...
Visit the web site below and look for a topic that catches your attention. Regardless of the stated or possible beliefs of the person presenting the ideas, read, listen or watch their presentation and ask yourself the following three questions...
1. What can I learn about God or God's creation from this person?
2. How could or should this person's research shape my day-to-day spiritual life?
Memorise the Motto, Focus, and key Scripture for the rational style
Motto: understanding the nature of God
Focus: logic & science
Key Scripture: By wisdom the Lord laid the earth's foundation, by understanding he set the heavens in place. (Proverbs 3:19)
Share them with a friend.
-- Visit the web site: http://www.3colorsofyourspirituality.org
Right now, spend a few moments in prayer asking God, in your own words, for a greater appreciation of logic and science in your relationship with him. Say honestly how you feel about the rational style.
Be sure to leave yourself a moment when you've finished to see if God brings anything to your mind about the topic.
Note down anything you sense during this time.
Ich würde dir gerne mitteilen, wieso ich jeden Morgen um 5 Uhr auf dieser Veranda sitze und wieso das so eine reiche Erfahrung für mich ist. Der erste Grund ist, dass meine Kinder sicher in ihren Betten liegen und mich nicht unterbrechen können. Aber wieso mag ich es hier raus zukommen. Daran möchte ich dich ein bisschen teilhaben lassen.
I'd like to share with you a bit about why I sit on this verandah each morning at about 5 o'clock and why that is such a rich experience for me. The first reason is that my children are tucked safely in their beds and are unable to interrupt me. But why is it I like to come out here. I'd like to share a bit about that.
Ich bin in einem christlichen Zuhause in einer recht konservativen Gemeinde groß geworden. In der Dinge sehr wichtig waren wie die Bibel und rationales Nachdenken über Gott, sowie die richtige Theologie zuhaben. Das war alles sehr gut und gab mir ein gute Grundlage für mein Leben.
I was born into a Christian home in quite a conservative church that was very strong in things like Scripture, rationally thinking about things like God and having right theology which was all really good and gave me a great foundation for my life.
For Christians with a rational style, it is most natural to express their spirituality through mental activity. The strength of this style is its reflective ability; the peril is its tendency to overstress the rational component (intellectualism)....Excerpt from The 3 Colors of Your Spirituality - Christian A. Schwarz