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My personality (Myers-Briggs) is ENFP. Only 2-3% of the population is ENFP so I often feel like a right-brained guy in a left-brained world. I am hoping to find fellow sojourners on a similar spiritual path, so I was wondering where are you on your faith journey? Let’s see how you and I compare. I am onboard with the following:

You want your faith journey to include people who have a faith that can embrace doubt, struggle, inquiry and searching.

Because you no longer believe all the things you have been taught about God, Jesus, and the Bible, you feel as though you are slipping to the edge of Christianity, and you sometimes fear you might slide over the edge.

You really want to hold onto a faith that you feel has intellectual integrity and that you don't feel uncomfortable or embarrassed about.

You sometimes feel so uncomfortable with some of your church's teaching and with the beliefs and attitudes of fellow Christians, that you feel a greater kinship with people who are not religious.

You are beginning to suspect that the faith you previously subscribed to (perhaps the one you’ve grown up with), might be a narrow, somewhat impoverished, sectarian form of Christianity.

You relate to the disenfranchised people who like Jesus, but dislike the church.

You are more comfortable with a less literal understanding of the message of the Bible and appreciate a greater emphasis on the human background and history of the Bible and the adventure of faith.

You have a greater interest in Jesus as a historical person and in Jesus' teachings, especially about non-violence (love of enemies), instead of focusing almost exclusively on his suffering, death and resurrection; seeing social justice concerns as central to what it means to being a Christian in the Kingdom of God, not something peripheral.

You appreciate less emphasis on the other-worldly aspects of the Christian faith and a greater focus on what being a Christian means for our life here on earth today.

You need to have your faith reinvigorated. You need to experience the liberating joy of faith in your life…otherwise you feel your faith must be jettisoned before it takes you down with it.

You long for a place where genuine discussion takes place about growing in faith, love and hope. You are no longer interested in the parroted wisdom of the traditional church.

You wish there was a place where emerging Christian thinkers, theologians, philosophers, apologists from around the world could engage in meaningful, ongoing conversation.

The evangelical fundamentalist Jesus seems to be an angry Jesus, a Jesus who rails against abortionists, gays, liberals, Democrats…and yet who has nothing to say about other Top 10 Sins.

You feel empathy toward people who say that religion was shoved down their throat and they walked away from God.

You used to think that science was a threat to religion. You now realize the Creator god may have used the mechanism of evolution as the best current scientific explanation for all biological systems on earth. You are not a young-earth creationist.

You care about people outside of the faith. You wish you could give people who have given up on Christianity a reason to take another look.