“It was profound for me. It was life-changing for me. And I think that God has used, continues to use the Enneagram to change lives.”
“The Enneagram, I think, helps you get to the heart of the call to obedience in the Scripture that says, let us lay aside the sin that so easily entangles us.”
“I assumed wrongly, young Matt Brown, that people wanted to be led the way I would want to be led. And so that’s how I led people.”
“My son—we don’t think the same, experience the same. My personality is overbearing, loud. I find meaning by getting vocal. My son retreats, gets quiet. And I would, before the Enneagram, I would take that personal, rather than saying, this is the way that he personally is wired.”
“Does God want me to be perfect as a one [on the Enneagram]? I’m going to be miserable and I’m going to see God as this Father that expects things that I can never do.”
“If I go to the doctor and they’re Muslim or they’re atheist or whatever, what I care about is their skill set in providing healing for my body. And so I think those other guys that have piled on to the Enneagram have not diminished it, but they’ve helped refine it.”
“It’s such a huge benefit to the church to have real and open conversations about your strength and your weaknesses.”
“I think to truly grow, we need two points of reference. We need to know where we are and we need to know where we want to go.”
“God wants us all to have an impact. [The Enneagram] just gives you the language and a path to grow.”
“If I want to run a marathon, the first thing I need to do is heal my broken ankle…And I think we have people in our churches with broken ankles and we’re telling them, take the hill. And I think God is saying, ‘Let’s heal this ankle.’”
“What the Enneagram helps us do is to ask what is going on at my core…when I boil it all down, what is at the bottom of all this brokenness?”
“You can only heal as deep as you’re willing to go real…the Enneagram is a tool to help Jesus help you be free.”
Mentioned in the Show
John 8:32
Luke 15
Matthew 5:48
Romans 7
“A Book Called You: Understanding the Enneagram from a Grace-Filled, Biblical Perspective” by Matthew Stephen Brown
Check out Matt’s website
Follow Matt on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
Evagrius Ponticus
Myers-Briggs Personality Types
“The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery” by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
“Spirit-Controlled Temperament” by Tim LaHaye
