It should be noted that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, promoted and implemented by the Assemblies of God headquarters is almost completely based on the occultic teachings of Carl Jung.  Go to the MBTI website and see for yourself.  Here is their site: http://www.mbtitoday.org/model.html and www.myersbriggs.org/
 

Here are my two letters to Gabriele Rienas.  She is the wife of Dr. Werner Rienas, Pastor of Life Church, an Assembly of God Church in Aloha, Oregon.  Website: http://www.lifeonweb.org.  She is also a Professional Counselor at Christian Counseling Centers of Oregon , Inc., website: http://www.cccow.org/ 

Gabriele Reinas is also a regular columnist for the Assembly of God's Enrichment Journal, where the following quote in my letter to her was taken:  http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/200603/200603_070_Blahs_sb_QA.cfm 

To date, Mrs. Reinas has failed to respond to both of my letters of appeal.  

The Enrichment Journal is not the only place the AOG promotes temperament divination.  The AOG also promotes it as the heart of their We Build People (I have confronted the leaders of this program as well and typically none responded), which is the equivalent of Rick Warren's SHAPE Questionnaire and program.    There you will see that the AOG also promotes Florence Littauer's Personality Profile which is based on Greek Paganism.  Here is the proof:
 

http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/temper.htm 
 

You should require proof that the Assembly of God leaders are championing these magic arts.  So here it is:
 

http://webuildpeople.ag.org/wbp_library/0001_resources.cfm

Dear Gabriella Rienas,

I just happened to discover your article entitled: The Pastors Wife: Beating the Blahs of Ministry posted on the Enrichment Journal in which you talk about Personality Profiling where you state:

"There are various tools to help people discover their strengths. Some churches or counseling centers offer personality profiles such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^® or the DISC^® Profile. The Clifton StrengthsFinder a resource for readers of the book, Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, is a user-friendly tool accessible on the Web. These kinds of assessments often confirm what one already knows but may have been reluctant to admit. In the end, what one learns from using these tools can be empowering and motivating. When a pastors wife finds the freedom to be herself, she can be firm, but kind, regarding the unrealistic expectations set by the congregation."

As you no doubt know, the AOG uses a program called "We Build People" which is AOG's version of Rick Warren's SHAPE Program.

So I would like to appeal  you to consider the roots of Rick Warren's Personality Profiling questionnaire (the "P" in his SHAPE) Program.  It is described in Chapter 11 of my book Who's Driving the Purpose Driven Church? available online at:

http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/James/personality-profiling.html

I am also taking the liberty of sending you a PDF file of my second book on Warren which was just released and will be in print in a few weeks entitled: Rick Warren's Global Peace Plan vs. Scriptural Teachings on Peace, also published by Southwest Radio Church.

Kindest regards in Christ,

James Sundquist

Director

Rock Salt Publishing

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From: RockSalt

To: grienas@lifeonweb.org

Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:53 PM

Subject: AOG practices sorcery with DISC profiler

Dear Gabriella,

Here is more proof that AOG's We Build People program which uses DISC Personality Profiling is based on Carl Jung and William Marsden, the inventor of Wonder Woman comic strip in which he inverts the female bondage Carl Jung archetype with the male bondage archetype:

http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/management/DISC.htm

DISC Profile Tests Assessments Courses Online

"Online DISC Profile & Inscape Publishing Distributor: ... behavioral and personality types based on the work of William Moulton Marston and Carl Jung. ..."

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"Coupled with the DiSC Profile, this workshop provides useful and immediate ... of human behavior founded on the psychological theory of Carl G. Jung.... ..."
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"The DISC profile system has its roots in time-tested and proven theories dating back to the Swiss Psychologist Dr. Carl Jung and William Marston Ph.D. from"

And here DISC makes no bones about how they employ it in astrology...also condemned in Scripture: http://www.astroprofile.com/

As you can see, even DISC websites themselves concede that this personality profiling was based on Carl Jung who in turn self-confessed he got his personality temperament profiling by practicing divination from a demonic spirit guide he named Philemon.   So, doesn't the AOG believe what the Bible says about divination, that it is an abomination to the Lord?

But this does not stop the AOG from using it and causing its members to thereby practice sorcery.  Rick Warren compounds his sin by requiring his members to take his Jung-embedded SHAPE program.

As Paul would say I am astonished....oh foolish American's and AOG leaders, who hath bewitched you.

So AOG Matriarch Dr. Opal Reddin was right in her letter of appeal to all AOG Pastors on her deathbed.

I am compelled to further remind you of my chapter on Warren's SHAPE Temperament fraud at:

http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/James/personality-profiling.html

Sincerely in Christ,

James Sundquist

Director

Rock Salt Publishing

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Another expose on DISC Profiling is found at:

http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/discarddisc13_5.html

Assemblies of God also promote Ken Voge's Personality Profiling, so-called Christian version of DISC. Imagine the Apostle PAUL SAYING..."WELL I GO TO THE ICHTHUS ORACLE OF DELPHI!" For those Christians who think DISC is useful or even harmless fun, I remind them of the Scriptures that warn that the early Christians in the Book of Acts burned these kinds of scrolls while Rick Warren, the AOG and the Southern Baptist new President Frank Page conducts Purpose-Driven teachings at his own church and promote them and many even make them binding for church membership and job applications.

As to dream interpretation, this is still another false teaching of Carl Jung being promoted in the church and central to his personality and psychology theories. In the Bible NO MAN ever interpreted a dream. God revealed the interpretation within Scripture itself. The next time some Christian counselor or psychotherapist tells you they can interpret your dreams, tell them what Nebuchadnezzar told the astrologers and magicians who said they could interpret the king's dream if he would but just tell them what the dream was. Nebuchadnezzar said, no you tell me what the dream was first, then interpret it. Of course, no one could do that! Later on, Daniel did not even do it on his own, by his own wisdom (which was great) but by God's revelation. And no man or woman on earth is going to be able to interpret your dreams either. So they are useless! The next time a licensed or unlicensed dream therapist tells you they can interpret your dream to help you with your problem or behavior or future, ask them to first tell you what your dream was!

Finally, Ken Voge's DISC uses four animals to describe 4 temperaments, just like Gary Smalley has done in his personality profiling where you figure out what animal you are. But animals and humans were created after their own kind, so there can be no biblical justification for the connection, particularly because animal behavior is governed by instinct while human behavior is governed by conscience and the leading of the Holy Spirit...unless you believe in evolution which Carl Jung (DISC roots) and most of the major psychologist theorists believe(d) in.  Evolutionists love integrating animal behavior into their humanist psychology because they think humans are animals...just more highly evolved. And remember, in the Bible, animal-like behavior (i.e., "brute beasts, unreasoning animals") was a sign of a reprobate mind...a judgment that God turns people over to for refusing the knowledge of the truth and what happened to King Nebuchadnezzar because of his pride.  We don't want to discover, model our behavior or modify it based on the personality of an animal.  There is no Scriptural foundation for this whatsoever....if anything the Bible says the opposite.  Jesus Christ did not die to save or even sanctify animals because of their sins which is impossible for them to do because of their nature.  And God made animals lower than man. 

Animals are used as images in a positive sense in the Bible, for example Jesus is BOTH the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of God...but these are used primarily as symbols or images for prophecy and functions of Jesus Christ, and not to determine personality or to perform behavior divination. Most importantly, when the Bible uses animals as symbols it defines their interpretation and limitation.

By assigning meanings to animals for spiritual purposes is going beyond what is written in Scripture. Voges uses the lion, otter, bear, and dog. But Jesus Christ called the Pharisees dogs to describe their character (not their personality). And why doesn't Voges use a dragon, a sloth, and elephant, or a viper for temperament types? After all these are animals named in the Bible right? Four different animals were used in Daniel's vision of empires (lion, bear, leopard, and fourth beast with great iron teeth). So why doesn't Voges use these animals...particularly since they are already listed as four animals in the context of one of dreams? Or why doesn't Voge employ a goat or sheep? But this would present still another problem. The same kind of animal is sometimes presented in the Bible with opposite descriptions, depending on the context. Sheep are used in both a positive and negative connotation. Positive in that my sheep hear my voice, we are the sheep of his pasture, and Jesus Christ separates the sheep from the goats when he judges the nations. But sheep are also dumb and we all, like sheep, have gone astray. Why does Voge select a mammal in his personality theory? Why not a bird or fish? Why not an insect or trylobyte? And why a Golden Retriever for a dog? Why not a toy poodle or Saint Bernard or a Pit Bull (a great protector which can be a ferocious attacker but also gentle, kind and loyal to its master)? And why a domesticated dog vs. a wild dog? And why not have all four major delineations of traits be dogs? Why not four horses? After all, if you want to be biblical, the Apocalypse is described as four horses in Revelation, and four horses are used in Zechariah as well in describing judgments on the earth. Who decides what animal to pick and how to measure the traits or calibrate them? Conclusion: the DISC profiling and all temperament personality profiling is all based on pagan superstition, evolution, magic arts, and divination. And it is as Paul would say science, falsely so called. Even the Meyers Briggs Temperament Profiler, also promoted by the AOG has a logo banner on their site called the Philemon Foundation, so named after Carl Jung's demonic spirit-guide. But this has not stopped the leaders of the AOG or Ted Haggard, President of National Association of Evangelicals, whose New Life Church is also a client of DISC. Proof: http://www.discinsights.com/cyber/scripts/clients.asp

Here is more proof that Assembly of God leaders and pastors promote DISC:

webuildpeople.ag.org/wbp_library/ 9408_differences_in_people.cfm

For more proof of Rick Warren's forbidden practice of sorcery and so-called secrets, hear Pastor Bob DeWaay's Part 10 in his radio series on Rick Warren located :

 http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Critical_Issues_Commentary/archives.asp