Enneagram Theology (+ the leaders who promote it) | Dr. Rhenn Cherry | Ep. 218
Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly
Haley Williams
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🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Dr. Rhenn Cherry joins me today to discuss the theology behind the enneagram and dissect whether that underlying theology is consistent with a biblcal view of God, man, sin and salvation.
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| 0:49.2 | I have a great conversation today with Ren Cherry, where we talked all about |
| 0:53.0 | anagram theology, what it is, |
| 0:55.6 | where to spot it, and unpacking how it actually stands in direct opposition to what |
| 1:03.4 | scripture teaches us about who we are and where we find our identity and who gets to say who we |
| 1:10.0 | are. And so this is a fascinating conversation. |
| 1:12.4 | I love this topic because I've lived it and I've lived being someone that got really |
| 1:17.2 | swept away into this movement, which I share some about in this conversation. |
| 1:21.8 | And I just, I know how tempting it can be to feel like the Enneagram brings us so much meaning and makes sense out of |
| 1:31.3 | our lives and our minds and the way we operate. And yet I also have seen how this theology |
| 1:38.0 | is just ultimately very empty and does not point me to hope through Christ, which I find in scripture, does not anchor my hope |
| 1:47.1 | there. It really diverts my eyes to so many other false gospels. And so I would encourage you to |
| 1:52.8 | check this out, listen with an open mind. Potentially, this can help inform your conversations with |
| 1:59.9 | loved ones who might be or friends who are |
| 2:02.5 | engaged still with the enneagram and you can kind of have some talking points for why |
| 2:09.1 | aneagram theology is problematic and actually just flies against scripture as ren is going |
| 2:16.4 | to help us understand and unpack and I will point you to his book as |
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