You are a
Devotee
You adopt practices that express your unique worldview
Devotees are Reflective believers
Reflectives are rational individuals believers. They are always seeking personal understanding and interpretation.
Core Quality
Devotees adopt religious habits and practices that express their unique take on faith.
Purpose and Goal
Devotees choose who to follow based on how much like-mindedness they feel with them. They only adopt prescribed religious actions and practices that represent their worldview.
Devotees only follow those leaders whose advice feels close to their own thinking and principles. Thus, they only practice disciplines that are grounded in sets of ideas or worldviews they identify with. It is important for them to have spiritual habits that express their unique take on faith.
Faith Drivers
What are the next steps for Devotees on their journey of faith?
Devotees long to be introduced into the secrets of the tradition. They don’t only want to serve God, they want to know they really serve God. Spiritual disciplines are one of the best ways to initiate someone into a deeper understanding of what faith is really about. Devotees thrive when they are introduced to disciplines one by one. They should not try to do all the disciplines all the time. A spiritual director could help them discern which ones would have the biggest formational impact on them. They should be directed towards high commitment.
Where do you go from here?
Material to guide you on your way
Devotees are Reflective believers
Other roles in your faith style:
Core Quality
Teachers reinterpret faith for themselves through reasoning and reflecting.
Purpose and Goal
Teachers examine all truths rationally. Their faith is built on reasoning and reflecting. They trust their own interpretation of faith to make balanced decisions. For them, truth should always be intellectually sound and personal.
Core Quality
Guardians protect and defend their faith by relying on respectful discussions.
Purpose and Goal
Guardians seek to protect or defend faith. They do this by relying on respectful discussions. The purpose of this exchange of ideas is to look at all sides of an issue. Guardians do this because they deeply believe one can only know the truth after reflecting on all the different sides of it.
Core Quality
Servants create social order by figuring out the underlying principles that will make a society stable.
Purpose and Goal
Servants are devoted and helpful supporters. They are changing the world by creating social order through underlying rules and duties. They spend time figuring out the underlying principles that will make a society stable. They seek the regulations governing faithful conduct.
Core Quality
Strivers seek to fulfil their faith goals through making explicit choices regarding ideology and lifestyle.
Purpose and Goal
Strivers attempt to “translate” who they are into a gift for the world. They make an effort to accomplish as many of their faith goals as possible. They try to seek God’s guidance in the midst of all their daily activities. From the outside, Strivers can look like spiritual overachievers. This happens because they are willing to sacrifice so much because of their firmly held personal values and ideas.
Core Quality
Assessors are constantly evaluating the quality of their own faith against their own set of guidelines, personal experience and common sense.
Purpose and Goal
Assessors are constantly evaluating their own quality of faith. They rate themselves against their own sets of guidelines. Their personally developed belief system helps them discern how to live.
Core Quality
Curators are sifting through the assumptions in faith communities. They are collecting those values, beliefs, notions and thoughts that are helpful in making meaning, for safekeeping.
Purpose and Goal
Curators grow by making up their own minds. They are keepers or custodians of what is proper in rational in the faith community. Alongside their questioning of the assumptions functioning in faith communities, they also question the authority structures. They have a growing need to make up their own mind.
Core Quality
Caregivers’ internalisation of authority opens the way for reflective self-awareness commitments in relationships.
Purpose and Goal
Caregivers are forming their own theory of how people should behave towards each other. This is built on general requirements, guidelines or principles of relationships. Even though Caregivers will consider a wide range of viewpoints, they trust their own perspective. They interact with people out of their personal understanding of relationships.