Character Traits

• Enthusiasts enjoy celebratory worship as well as many of the more supernatural forms of faith.

• People with this spiritual temperament like to let go and experience God on the precipice of excitement and awe.

• We worship and serve a supernatural God who manifests himself to us in supernatural ways.

• In a cynical and depressed world, enthusiasts point toward faith, mystery, and expectancy. When the situation seems impossible, enthusiasts say, “Now God’s really going to move!”

• It is a sinful tendency to lapse into a practical “atheism,” believing in God, but not expecting him to move in supernatural ways.

• Sometimes we may be using a gift God has given us and say something that sounds profound and then think, “Where in the world did that come from?”

• Sometimes a prayer is answered in a way that makes coincidence seem impossible.

• Celebration has a wide background in Scripture.

• A person’s reluctance to celebrate enthusiastically is more a personal foible than a sign of maturity.

• Remember, celebratory worship must still include reverence.