My ENFP Personality Profile

Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving (ENFP, Myers-Briggs Personality Test)

ENFP children are 'into everything.' Their natural curiosity results in children for whom questions were invented. They often spend long periods of time devising new and original --- but not necessarily practical --- languages, plays, and scenarios. Many ENFPs enjoy drawing, writing, playacting, and dreaming. They are often chosen as leaders because of their persuasive enthusiasm and their energy for new and different ways of developing things.

ENFP teenagers are agreeable, sociable, outgoing people who like to imagine themselves in the future. They spend many hours wondering and discussing with friends whom they will marry, where they will live, what their children will be like, and what work they will do. They leave no option or possibility unexplored and find it difficult to see themselves in any single job or career.

Because they see endless possibilities, to select one possibility appears to the ENFP to be too narrow a focus. They hate to be boxed into a career for life and therefore hesitate and resist making decisions. It is unwise for ENFPs to settle down too early, and they make the soundest choices when they delay career and marriage decisions until their middle to late twenties. Often when a decision is made, ENFPs will still leave a number of options open or change their minds as they encounter new information.

Even in their everyday activities, ENFPs often search for the new and the novel. If there is a logical route to work and ENFP has been driving that way continually, he or she will likely tire of it and look for other routes.

ENFPs are more likely than other types to change from one career to another, demonstrating their versatility in doing so. It is not uncommon to hear stories of ENFPs who have established themselves in a career and who, when faced with the daily routine of maintaining it, leave it to start another.

Adult ENFPs maintain characteristics that might be considered youthful, such as enthusiasm, curiosity, and a zestful outlook on life. As a result, people often enjoy being with them. Many times they are young-in-spirit as they age, perhaps because of their temperament.

ENFPs look forward to retirement as a time that can bring freedom from the restrictions of the work world and ample opportunity to pursue their varied interests. However, if ENFPs become disabled or experience a lack of resources, such as money, they may become despondent because this restricts their ability to quest after new experiences.

Same Spiritual Page

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.