Cross Balance

Seven Motivational Gifts

(Romans 12)

These gifts have been expanded in detail
in Don and Katie Fortune's book - Discover your God-Given Gifts -
linking them with a whole range of character traits.
So it should be possible to determine how they correspond (if at all)
with the temperament types.
Like the Old Testament gifts there are seven,
and again four of them seem to correspond clearly.
The compassionate person
has many of the traits of a phlegmatic, introvert, observer.
The perceptive person
fits well with the melancholic, introvert, thinker.
The administrative traits
tend to those of the  choleric, extrovert, doer.
And the encourager is clearly the sanguine, extrovert, talker.

And what about the other three?
The researcher (or teacher)
tends to fall in between the perceiver and administrator,
but could be more near the centre in being able to be balanced as a teacher.
The server would seem to be
between the compassionate person and the encourager,
but also near the centre.
And finally the giver, according to the Fortune's book,
seems to have the most balanced of personalities,
and therefore is in the middle.

Details of each gift are given in the table on the next page.