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We talk about Enneagram Type 5 - The Investigator; their strengths, weaknesses, and comparison to Bible characters.

Enneagram Type 5

Fives are alert, insightful, and curious. They are able to concentrate and focus on developing complex ideas and skills. Independent, innovative, and inventive, they can also become preoccupied with their thoughts and imaginary constructs. They become detached, yet high-strung and intense. They typically have problems with eccentricity, nihilism, and isolation. At their Best: visionary pioneers, often ahead of their time, and able to see the world in an entirely new way.

• Basic Fear: Being useless, helpless, or incapable
• Basic Desire: To be capable and competent

Key Motivations: Want to possess knowledge, to understand the environment, to have everything figured out as a way of defending the self from threats from the environment.

Bible figure: Thomas

Strengths

• You’re driven by logic and straight-thinking more than emotions and can tend to be distant and aloof when you’re unhealthy. But when you’re Christ-centered and whole, you bring brilliance and insight to scriptural truths.

Personal Growth Recommendations

1. Learn to notice when your thinking and speculating takes you out of the immediacy of your experience - be in the moment!
2. You tend to be extremely intense and so high-strung that you find it difficult to relax and unwind. 
3. You see many possibilities but often do not know how to choose among them or judge which is more or less important.
4. Notice when you are getting intensely involved in projects that do not necessarily support your self-esteem, confidence, or life situation.
5. Fives tend to find it difficult to trust people, to open up to them emotionally, or to make themselves accessible in various ways.

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Sermon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gErM5sLv2lE (Enneagram 5)

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