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Different 'types'

Doers, Leters and Becomers ... Which are you?

There are lots of different tools which can be helpful in enabling us to gain a better understanding of who we are, how we function and how we affect others of differing personalities to ourselves. Recently, I read an interesting article in which the author proposed that there are THREE basic christian viewpoints. Basically in the form of a triangle - with each viewpoint at the apex, in other words, we may find ourselves anywhere within the triangle and that would represent the balance, or mixture, that describes who we are.

These three ‘types’ are:
  • The Doers - they want to know what God desires of them, and then they do it.
  • The Leters - they focus on waiting en god seeking his face and letting him change us and work through us
  • The Becomers - their focus is entering into being the kind of person God wants them to be, to be transformed inwardly in order to reflect the nature of Christ outwardly.

So what?

These differences in our viewpoint of Christianity form our convictions of who we are, what we are doing and what motivates us. For example our prayers might be characterised as follows:
  • A Doer prays - Lord help me to change
  • A Leter prays - Lord change me
  • A Becomer prays - Lord show me what I am in you
If you want to read more about this then I suggest you get the book ... it contains many more insights that are useful to anyone seeking to lead within the body of Christ and, in particular, in Mission.

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  1. GavinSeptember 18, 2016 at 7:07 AM

    There is another viewpoint.....
    You have those whose focus is God. They then live in the goodness of who they are in Christ and as a result are also aware they are also works in progress, but in the meantime they have a passion to do what God has called them to do. They pray accordingly.

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  2. ajbaggSeptember 18, 2016 at 2:29 PM

    Indeed ... as with any tool it will never fully capture the wonderful diversity of humanity that God had created ... I think all models are 'fuzzy', overlapping, descriptors. Man's best attempts to explain the incomprehensible. Though I did like this simplistic approach ...

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