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A Christian Enneagram

Know your patterns. Grow the fruit.

Find your type with a test built for accuracy, then follow a growth path rooted in Scripture: from the patterns that trap you to the fruit the Spirit is growing in you.

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A test built to get it right

Motivation, not behavior

Two people can do the same thing for opposite reasons. We ask why, not what.

Adaptive between lookalikes

Torn between a Six and a Nine? The test asks the questions that tell them apart, and says so honestly when it's close.

New and improving

It's new, and it gets sharper as people tell us whether their result fits. We'll publish accuracy figures once we've measured them, not before.

The nine types

Each is a way we try to make life work on our own terms, and each reflects something of the God who made us.

1The Principled Improver
Wants life to be good and right, and works hard to make it so.
Growing toward: patience
2The Generous Friend
Longs to be loved and wanted, and reaches for it by meeting others' needs.
Growing toward: love
3The Builder of Worth
Wants to be valuable, and works hard to become what others admire.
Growing toward: goodness
4The Longing Heart
Longs to be truly known, and feels deeply what seems to be missing.
Growing toward: joy
5The Seeker of Understanding
Wants to understand life deeply, and guards inner reserves to stay capable.
Growing toward: kindness
6The Steadfast Questioner
Seeks solid ground in an uncertain world and stays loyal to what proves true.
Growing toward: faithfulness
7The Joyful Adventurer
Wants a full, free life, and keeps moving to stay ahead of pain.
Growing toward: self-control
8The Strong-Hearted Protector
Refuses to be controlled, and stands up for the vulnerable.
Growing toward: gentleness
9The Steady Harmonizer
Longs for harmony within and around, and often loses track of self to keep it.
Growing toward: peace

The fruit pairings are our interpretation, pending theological review. Every believer is called to all nine (Galatians 5:22–23).

Deeper than your number

Your type is where the story starts. Your instinct, wings and lines explain why you're not like every other person of your type.

Instincts and the 27 subtypes
Self-preservation, social, one-to-one
Wings
The neighbors that flavor your type
Stress and growth lines
Each with a high side and a low side
Levels of health
Where you are, and the next step
Type 2 · The Generous Friend
From needing to be the one others need toward love
Root sin
pride
Fruit (proposed)
love
Core fear
Being unwanted or unloved for who they are; and, close behind it, the humiliation of letting a need be seen and having it turned down.
Core desire
To be loved and wanted: to know they have a real place in the hearts of the people who matter to them.

You were loved before you gave anything. God loved you first, while you had nothing to offer, and you can receive his love as freely as you give (1 John 4:19; Romans 5:8).

Read the full Type 2 profile

Grow a little every day

The Ninefold app is on its way: a two-minute devotional for your type, gentle check-ins when your pattern shows up, and journeys toward your growth line. Start with the test today.

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