The Enneagram: What's True? What's False? Does it Matter?
2 Seasons
The Enneagram is a spiritual tool that is revolutionizing Christian theology around the world. But…what spirit is behind the tool?
Justin Peters - Trading Sola Scriptura for Prima Scriptura
Dr. Ron Huggins – Enneagram Genesis: In Search of Enneagram Origins
Don Veinot – The Enneagram, Discipleship and the Church
Dr. Doug Groothuis – The Enneagram and a Heretic’s Christ
Dr. Rhenn Cherry – A Biblical Critique of the Enneagram Gospel: Is the Problem Human Sin or Mistaken Identity?
Doreen Virtue – "The Enneagram: A Valid Psychological Tool, A Spiritual Tool or Neither?"
Marcia Montenegro - The Enneagram: Ancient Faith or New Age Deception?
Phil Roberts – The Enneagram: How Many Paths to God?
Jill Lancour – The Enneagram & The Tale of a Pastor’s Wife
Live Questions and Answers
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Trading Sola Scriptura for Prima Scriptura - Justin Peters - The Enneagram
Episode 1
“Trading Sola Scriptura for Prima Scriptura” really forms the basis for how each of us will determine if the Enneagram is a helpful tool for Christians, harmful to Christians or simply neutral on a spiritual level. Is Scripture the final authority for faith and practice or is ancient wisdom and n...
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The Enneagram and a Heretic’s Christ - Doug Groothuis
Episode 2
Franciscan Friar Richard Rohr has been very influential in reshaping the theology and practice in large segments of the evangelical church. His disciples, Suzanne Stabile, Ian Cron, Christopher Heuretz, Beth McCord and others are some of the biggest selling authors from what are thought of as eva...
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The Enneagram, Discipleship and the Church - Don Veinot
Episode 3
Discipleship is observation and imitation. All of us are discipling, some well and some not so well. Within the church leaders are to guard the flock, disciple them to be discerning and train them in the word and holy living based on the word. Does the Enneagram fit within scriptural faith and pr...
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Enneagram Genesis: In Search of Enneagram Origins - Ron Huggins
Episode 4
In 1992 Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert stated in their book, The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective that the Enneagram did not have any Christian origins. Since that publication a new storyline has been built with claims of the Enneagram being used by pre-Christian Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)...
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A Biblical Critique of the Enneagram Gospel - Dr. Rhenn Cherry
Episode 5
Never before in the history of personality typing has a system been spiritualized like the Enneagram. It is now even promoted and marketed as a “Christian” and “Gospel-Centered” tool by Enneagram evangelists. But what is the “gospel” offered by the Enneagram system? What is man’s problem accordin...
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A Psychological Tool, A Spiritual Tool, Or Neither? - Doreen Virtue
Episode 6
The Enneagram is not a valid psychological tool, but instead is a New Age indoctrination tool which was derived from occult practices. Doreen discusses psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo: Grandfather of Psychedelic Therapy and why his public admission that he received the nine Ennea-types through autom...
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The Enneagram: Ancient Faith or New Age Deception? - Marcia Montenegro
Episode 7
How does the New Age connect with the Enneagram? This talk will cover the New Age background of the Enneagram through its founders, and examine the New Age ideas of the Enneagram, comparing them with biblical teaching. The New Age connections with popular Christian Enneagram teachers/writers will...
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The Enneagram: Are There Many Paths To God? - Phil Roberts
Episode 8
The Enneagram is not about what type of person someone is according to the Enneagram masters, but each number is a path to God. We are not separated from God but have simply invented a false self that thinks we are separated from God. The number of our personal path takes us on the road back to o...
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The Enneagram & The Tale of a Pastor’s Wife - Jill Lancour
Episode 9
The Enneagram was introduced to me as nothing more than a personality tool. I soon discovered something branded as the “Christian Enneagram” which was promoted as a “spiritual tool.” It was enticing and I was heavily deceived into believing and trusting that the Enneagram could be Righteous, so m...
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1:19:25Episode 10
Questions Answered on the Enneagram
Episode 10
Don Veinot, Marcia Montenegro, Ron Huggins, and Doreen Virtue end the Enneagram conference with a Q&A.