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PRELIMINARY MOTIVATIONAL GRACES ASSESSMENT
v. 1.3 
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THE RESULTS OF YOUR  MOTIVATIONAL GRACES, TEMPERAMENTAL MASK AND NINE KEY PERSONALITY PROFILE INVENTORIES ARE BELOW.  PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END FOR THE BEST UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER.

 

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Purpose and Philosophy
Identification    
Motivational Graces

   MGI  
   CMI  

   DWM  
Temperament Mask
   TMI  not completed

   BSE  

   CTI Mask  not completed
Temperament    

   CTI  not completed
Nine Key Personality Profile   
Pneumatic Profile    
Final Conclusions   

 

Detailed information may be accessed by clicking on the link at the end of each section.

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PURPOSE AND PHILOSOPHY

Rom 12:6-8  Having graces (charismata) that differ according to the favor (charin) given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if ministry, in our service; he who teaches, in his teaching; he who encourages, in his exhortation; he who shares, in liberality; he who administrates, with zeal; he who cares, with cheerfulness.

The purpose of completing the inventory is to assist you in identifying the Romans 12 “Motivational Grace” operating in your life; namely, Prophecy, Ministry, Teaching, Encouraging, Sharing, Administration or Caring.  Each is descriptive of an individual's “perspective” for dealing with life situations.  Your Motivational Grace heavily influences how you relate to people and circumstances. You will go a long way toward discovering your “fit” in the Body when you discover your grace.  

 

Scripture teaches that the Father bestowed upon each individual one predominant Motivational Grace. Our research to date also suggests that He sometimes bestows one or two other secondary graces that work to complement the predominate grace.  (We call these secondary graces “wings.”)   This inventory is intended to help you differentiate which grace is predominant, and whether or not you have other graces operating as complementary “wings” to your predominant motivational grace.  

 

It is important to note that no test or inventory can be perfect, so please avoid applying your results too rigidly.  The inventory is best used in the context of a Scriptural teaching on Motivational Graces by a qualified instructor in a group setting, allowing for discussion, interaction and affirmation of each other’s function within the New Testament model.  

 

The core of the New Testament Model is Team Ministry.  Consider that in the Old Testament, you find more than a few “Lone Rangers.”  For example, you had Abraham and Noah had essentially singular callings.  Elijah and Elisha or the various other prophets typically operated alone.  Paul, who as Saul typified the OT model, operated on his own.  

 

But in the New Testament model, the Father called teams.  Jesus had the 12, and even within the twelve, he had the inner team of Peter, James and John.  When Jesus sent out the 12 and the 70, he did it two by two.  Saul—as Paul—no longer went on his own, rather, Paul had Barnabas or Silas or Luke or John Mark.  Therefore, in the New Testament model, an effective ministry group or church will be one in which its members appreciate their own gifts yet have an even greater appreciation of the gifts of others as they work together. 

 

As a result, cooperation will become the by-word of the work of the team.  A sound understanding of how individual graces interact is critical to producing sustained result-based outcomes, spiritual growth, and winning teamwork consistent with this New Testament model.  

 

As we become comfortable utilizing our gifts in the group, a seedbed is formed to empower ministry.  This organic approach is in opposition to the highly programmed model that most ministries use unsuccessfully in an attempt to develop quality leadership.  Therefore, by knowing our Motivational Grace and our personality traits, our purpose in the Kingdom can more easily come to light, thus providing a good means of finding our best fit within the group.  

 

However, we have come to see that just knowing your motivational grace is not enough.  Until you superimpose an understanding of your unique personality over your grace, you will not truly be fitted to achieve your purposes in the Kingdom.  Think of it this way:  your motivational grace is the primary lens through which you view the world and ministry, but your personality also colors all that you see through that lens.  The unique perspective you bring to ministry is a product of your grace and your personality working together in harmony.  Consequently, this present research is geared toward refining the correlation between graces and personality, and better defining the vast combinations that are possible.  

 

Thousands of individuals have completed our motivational grace assessments with amazing results.  By teaching the concept of Motivational Graces, we have enabled congregations of all sizes, styles and denominations to move more to the forefront in fulfilling their purpose in the Body.  It is our opinion there can be no real “equipping of the Saints” as Ephesians 4 talks about until each saint has discovered the seven Motivational Graces of Romans 12:6-8 as a primary functional approach to ministry.  

 

We pray you will be uniquely blessed and encouraged by the understanding achieved in this exercise.  We thank you for participating in our research!  If you need feedback, further explanation, or find errors, contact us at mgi-2006-1@aftrain.com.  If you find this assessment helpful, please feel free to pass the site address on to others before April 15, 2005.    

 

Your fellowship would surely benefit from an in-depth exploration of the Motivational Graces and Pneumatic (Spiritual) Graces.  You may contact us directly for information at (801) 605-1715, Affordable Training Consultants International.  Yahweh’s richest blessings on you, Revs. Banks Brazell & Jackson Snyder

 

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1.  MOTIVATIONAL GRACES

Your responses to the MGI indicate that your Motivational Grace is Encouraging; no wings.

 

Completing at least three inventories may confirm or optimize your results. You may access the full battery of inventories from www.CharismaticGifts.com.

 

Your responses to the CMI indicate that your Motivational Grace is Prophecy; your right wing is Teaching and left wing is Administrating.

MGI & CMI are compatible.  Aggregation indicates that your Motivational Grace is Encouraging; no wings.

There was (a close | a somewhat | no) correlation between results of the MGI and CMI inventories.   

The DWM is a longer and different style of inventory.  Your responses to the DWM indicate that your Motivational Grace is Sharing; your right wing is Teaching and no wing.

 

WINGS: In some individuals, a second or even a third grace works in subordination to or in conjunction with the primary grace. We call these secondary graces "right" and "left wings."

Summary: Your Motivational Grace is Sharing / teaching wing.
Click this link for details of your Motivational Graces.

2. TEMPERAMENT MASK: One’s self-perceived manner of thinking, behaving or reacting socially. Our assessment of Temperament Mask is based on one’s responses to questions regarding directness with, and openness to, others.

    Temperament Masks are called by the usual four Hippocratic terms (Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholy and Phlegmatic) plus a fifth term coined by the Drs. Arno (Supine).  These Masks are described at the link below.

   Knowing one’s Temperament Mask helps determine, validate and empower both spiritual gifts and personality.  The better you know yourself and your grace, and the better you know others, the better you can work with each other and not against each other.

 

You told us you were (optimistic | not optimistic) and others see you as (optimistic | not optimistic).  This is helpful in determining Temperamental Mask.  (Certain “temperament masks” have greater capacity for optimism than others.)

 

TMI / BSE Direct / Indirect score (-1,5) (both), which indicates you are ambivalent in dealing face-to-face with others socially.  (The higher the score, the more direct you may be with others.) (Certain “temperament masks” have greater capacity for being direct than others.)  

TMI / BSE Open / Contained score (-3,5) (both), which indicates you are ambivalent to how others act and what they say in a social setting.  (The higher the score, the more open you may be to others.) (Certain “temperament masks” have greater capacity for openness than others.)  

 

*Ambivalent - Characterized by a mixture of opposite feelings or attitudes, or lack of any strong attitude.

 

In the Mask portion of the Cephali Temperament Index (CTI), you scored highest in the indirect / contained range.

 

Therefore, your Temperament Mask is called:        
Supine      Sanguine      Phlegmatic       Choleric      probably Melancholy 

 

Click this link for details of your Temperament Mask.

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3. TEMPERAMENT: One’s actual manner of thinking, behaving or reacting in (1) socializing, (2) issues of control and (3) matters of love and affection. Our assessment of Temperament is based on one’s responses to questions that illicit affirmative answers in all three realms.  Knowing one’s temperament very much helps individuals work in teams and understand their behaviors.

 

CTI   Social affect      Control Affect       Affection Affect

 SI = 6   SC = 7   SA = 6
 CI = 8  *CC = 10  CA = 7
*MI = 12  MC = 6   MA = 13
*UI = 10  UC = 4   UA = 13
 PI = 4   PC = 7   PA = 3

 

Optimism, the Temperament Mask Inventory (TMI) and the Cephali Temperament Index for temperament mask were (highly | somewhat | not) consistent.

Your Temperament proper may be:

Supine      Sanguine      Phlegmatic      probably Choleric      Melancholy 
 

Descriptions of Temperament are not yet available.  Please contact the administrator if you have questions.

4.  NINE KEY PERSONALITY PROFILE: A fundamental element of the Nine Key Personality Profile (also called “The Enneagram“) is its description of nine distinct personality types, each a reflection of different patterns of thought, feeling and action.  The Nine Key Profiling system that we use has its roots in the Christian monastic movement of the fourth century, and is permeated by the spirituality of the great desert "Fathers."  The Nine Key system has also been greatly expanded and amplified by contemporary Christian thinkers and counselors.  Each of the nine types is rooted in a specific viewpoint or belief structure that largely determines what is important to you and how you interact with the world to fulfill your hopes and dreams.

 

Each of us adopted one of the nine patterns to protect a specific aspect of our selves that felt under threat during the development of our personalities. As you discover more about your personality type, you will also be learning about the unconscious motivations that determine much of your behavior.

 

Understanding your personality type can literally change your life - not only in your relationships with yourself and others, but in the way you cope with all issues and situations. (Some of the above quoted from Enneagram Monthly ©2005)

Your Nine Key Personality Profile is that of the EIGHT - Powerful Individualist.
Click this link for details of your Nine Key Type.

5. PNEUMATIC (Spiritual) PROFILE:  This is information you gave us that will help us with future research for the second module of our gifts assessment series.  Based on what you entered, we may be contacting you again for further studies.

Baptism in the Holy Spirit:  It is received when one is sanctified.  I know: Because I speak in tongues.

Preparation for your calling: Higher Education
Other:  I know that I know that I know it's real!  It feels cool, baby!

                                                                       

6. FINAL CONCLUSIONS: Your inventory results and our spiritual gifts assessors have determined that your Motivational Grace is Sharing / teaching wing.  
Click this link for details of your Motivational Graces. 

Your inventory results and our spiritual gifts assessors have determined that your Temperament Mask is probably choleric and your Temperament is undoubtedly choleric, see Nine Key.
Click this link for details of your Temperament Mask.

Your inventory results and our spiritual gifts assessors have determined that your Nine Key Personality Profile is EIGHT - Powerful Individualist.
Click this link for details of your Nine Key Type.

May we suggest that you study strengths and weaknesses of all your results -- Motivational Grace, Temperament Mask and your Nine Key Profile -- from the various web pages we have provided.  Your inventories coordinated (well | somewhat | poorly), but you are the best judge.  If there is not a good fit, please let us know.  Thank you for your participation.  Please pass our invitation to complete the inventories on to others.  Have them go to www.Glowmi.org/kci2 and use PIN “GUEST.”  We look forward to future correspondence.  Banks Brazell & Jackson Snyder.

 

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Please let us know whether the inventory matches your own self-assessment!  Motivational Graces seminars will help bring out the natural gifts and abilities of your congregation, study group or family.  You may learn more about how to present Motivational Graces seminars by contacting Jackson Snyder, or you may engage one of our presenters for your church or group.  You may speak to Rev. Banks Brazell directly at Affordable Training Consultants International for further information at (770) 704-6444.