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For Christians with an ascetic style, it is most natural to express their spirituality through a demonstration of their independence from material and worldly concerns. The strength of this style is its focus on a sacrificial life; its peril is the tendency to withdraw from the world (escapism)...

Excerpt from The 3 Colors of Your Spirituality - Christian A. Schwarz

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  • Ken Moody-Arndt's picture
    Discovering One's Spiritual Style Submitted by Ken Moody-Arndt 25 Jun 10

    I began working through the Three Colors of Spirituality book about a week ago, and reached the place of taking the spiritual style inventory a couple of days ago. I learned to my surprise that my native style is Rational, leaning toward Sensory (making my opposite style Ascetic--it is also surprising, therefore, that my second highest score on the inventory was Ascetic (!)).

  • Andrew's picture
    A Tool for evangelism Submitted by Andrew 19 Mar 10

    As my wife and I started this journey, we both immediately began to relate non christian family members to different styles. This has opened our eyes to look at different ways to show Christ according to how the person relates to spiritual issues.

    For example, it is obvious to us that one relative is rational, and another is mystical.

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