- Home
- Preface
- Introduction
- Three Zones and Nine Sectors
- Three resources *
- Meeting the world
- Nine strategies *
- Nine types
- Gut types
- EIGHT *
- NINE *
- ONE *
- Gut types review
- Corruption and redemption
- Heart types
- TWO *
- THREE *
- FOUR *
- Heart types review
- Symmetry of the board
- Head types
- FIVE *
- SIX *
- SEVEN *
- Head types review
- All nine sectors
- Discerning home base part 1
- Gifts and temptations
- Developing all three resources
- Taking the advice of the opposites
- The path to redemption part 1
- Celebrating all of who we are
- Neurology
- Wings and Moves and other functions
- Biblical Journeys
- Prayer
- The Enneagram
- From the Enneagram to the Strategy Board
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Overview – corruption and redemption
We can talk about redemption in all three tenses: past, present, and future.
In the past tense, we were redeemed from corruption when the saving work of Christ first took effect in our lives.
In the future tense, we shall be redeemed from corruption when sin and corruption are finally left behind forever in the glory of eternity.
And in the present tense, we are even now engaged in the journey from corruption to redemption – as we seek daily, by God’s grace, to become less like the worst of what we have been, and more like the best of what God wants us to be.
We are still on that journey from corruption to redemption – with elements of both in our lives. God has not finished with any of us yet.
As we examine the ‘corrupt’ and ‘redeemed’ consequences of each of the nine strategies, it is important to remember that the strategies themselves are all neutral. It is all too easy to classify different types as good or bad – morally or practically. This might happen if some of the images in the descriptions happen to resonate more clearly than others on a first read through. And it might happen because of the particular people you happen to know – each one having a home base on the board, but each one at a different stage on their journey toward redemption.
For each of the nine types, the corrupt form emerges when the strategy is applied in a self-directed, self-centered, self-obsessed manner – the practice of humankind fallen, a corruption of what God intended us to be. The description of each type’s redeemed form is a description of what the same strategy could produce when exercised in harmony with God’s good will for humankind. The Christian calling is not to move across the board, from one type to another, but to move within the home base sector, from the corrupt form of the type to its redeemed form, from the fallen-ness of the type to its natural spiritual gifts and its unique and vital contribution to the whole body of Christ. The Christian calling is to be fully alive in God as the redeemed form of who we already are.