Nehemiah, the (ENTJ) godly Israelite

Andrew is preaching through Nehemiah at the moment. Why wouldn't you? Nehemiah is all about leadership. And leadership is important. We've been chatting together about Nehemiah and there's no doubt that he is impressive. We'd like to be impressive too. So in the grand tradition of poor biblical work we decided put Nehemiah through a Myers-Briggs analysis so we know what personality types we should aspire to.

E or I? - E. Clearly. He was friends with the king.
N or S? - N. He seemed to intuitively know whether or not to trust people.
T or F? - T. Tough call, though. His feelings for Jerusalem affected his actions, but on other occasions his thoughts ruled.
P or J? - J. This is one organised man!

ENTJ. I think we have it! Nehemiah without a doubt!

ENTJ - The Executive
ENTJs are natural born leaders. They live in a world of possibilities where they see all sorts challenges to be surmounted, and they want to be the ones responsible for surmounting them. They have a drive for leadership, which is well-served by their quickness to grasp complexities, their ability to absorb a large amount of impersonal information, and their quick and decisive judgments. They are "take charge" people.

I just need to work on my J-ness. Andrew on his E-ness, N-ness and T-ness.

But...

Nehemiah is about a whole lot more than leadership. Actually, it's about a whole lot apart from leadership. I challenged Andrew to preach the series not using the L word at all. Tricky, but not impossible.

Over here, Andrew has posted brilliantly about what Nehemiah is really about. You should go read. Really, you should. He argues that Nehemiah is the model godly Israelite - a type of Jesus the faithful Israelite, not a type of Jesus the king. He also has some interesting stuff on Nehemiah's first person memoir style.