Cross Balance

A Multitude of Sins

BLACK HOLES?

So far,
we’ve looked at mostly positive characteristics and gifts.
We should also look at weaknesses, faults and sins.
Personalities have strengths and weaknesses
because we live in an imperfect world.
If the world were not fallen,
then our personalities would only show strengths.

For humans,
a perfect personality is not necessarily one that is bang in the middle,
but one that - if on the periphery - and showing only strengths –
can come over towards complementary temperament types
as circumstances require.
 It would, after all, be rather boring if we all had the same outlook on life.

Anyway,
 the different gifts do seem to require different types of people,
and St Paul reminds us that we are like different parts of one body
- the church -
and definitely different.
The doer is the hands and feet,
the observer - the eyes,
the talker the mouth,
and the thinker the brain.

As I said before,
 I think that Jesus would have had a personality in the middle,
but capable of empathizing with all around him
by being able to move out
to the different distinct personality types on the periphery.

However, we are not perfect,
with the result that the colours of our personalities subtract,
and lead to black holes in the middle, instead of bright lights!
I’ve looked at some examples on the next pages.