Dear Enneagram Critics (Thread): I'm dumbfounded every time I hear about an anxious conservative response to the Enneagram as some kind of voodoo tool of the Devil. As if those of us who use it secretly have a nine-sided star tattooed on our backs...
(next to the Celtic cross we mistakingly got around 1998, because everyone was doing it...oh, and the shalom tattoo we got in 2012). The Enneagram has people of all stripes talking about besetting sin patterns. Can you imagine that? It takes sin far more seriously...
than any contemporary psychological tool, perhaps so seriously that it's shattering behavioral sin paradigms that give people a false sense of control. Is it perfect? No. No more perfect than Evagrius or Cassian or Gregory's attempts at cataloguing sin...
But can it reach a new generation with accessible language and invitations to repentance and surrender? Absolutely. You might just find Jesus when you didn't think you were looking.
Be curious. Be surprised. Think creatively about your skeptical friends. #ItsNotVoodoo #SemperReformanda
