Celebrating Temperaments

Personality strengths and weaknesses—they can make church life interesting or infuriating! This descriptive booklet on the four temperaments is a helpful tool for anyone involved in local church leadership. Knowing about temperaments can greatly enhance our understanding of ourselves as well as those around us.

Read this book to learn more about sanguine, choleric, melancholy, and phlegmatic temperaments. This knowledge will assist you as you work with people of all temperaments and help you understand why others think, act, and respond the way they do. Temperament impacts on moral and spiritual development, academic performance, vocational aptitude and success, ability to concentrate, as well as one’s overall relationship style and ability to get along with others.

Understanding temperaments will lead to unconditional acceptance of those around us, making human relationships a better metaphor for what God is really like. If you’d like to better understand yourself and the people around you, Celebrating Temperaments is where to begin.

Copyright 1985, updated 2013. Paperback.