Frequency: Discovering Your Unique Connection to God

Had an opportunity over the weekend to take a good look at Frequency: Discovering Your Unique Connection to God.  Written by Eric Parks and Casey Bankord as a companion resource to the Monvee Spiritual Growth Assessment, there’s a lot to like about Frequency.

First of all, the metaphor of frequency to describe our unique pattern of connecting with God is just beautiful; a picture of our individual design that is easy to paint and use to explain connecting with God.

Next, the chapter on finding your frequency does a very good job of integrating an understanding of several aspects of our unique design:

• Spiritual Pathways: A concept explored in a more extensive way by Richard Foster, Gary Thomas, Bill Hybels, Ruth Haley Barton and a number of other authors, spiritual pathways are “the avenues and/or environments where you easily and effortlessly connect with God (p. 26).”
• Learning Styles: Long understood to be an important clue to the particular way we learn best, the distinction between auditory, classroom, social, verbal and visual provides additional understanding about our unique design.
• Personality: Along with other aspects, an understanding of personality types can also play a part in fine-tuning frequency.

Frequency blockers are also a helpful idea in the book.  Even with a better awareness of our frequency, developing a more accurate understanding of the role of sin patterns in blocking our hearing is essential ingredient.  The authors note that “because we are unique, we each have unique habits of sin (correlating to our personality) that tend to get in the way of our growth and cause us to live outside our frequency (p. 39).”

My favorite part of the book?  Part Two features a series of interviews, each with one of the nine different personality styles (the Monvee Spiritual Growth Assessment identifies a biblical figure you are most like).  When I took the assessment last year, I was most intrigued by this aspect and honestly, I was probably most amazed by the biblical character my profile revealed.  The interview opened my eyes to an even better understanding of this aspect of the profile.

Finally, purchase of Frequency includes a unique access code allowing a free assessment.  Like Marcus Buckingham’s Now, Discover Your Strengths or Love Talk by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, the assessment is really the key to the experience.  Completing the assessment and then reading part two provides a set of new insights about our own individual frequency.  Working through the book and assessment could provide a small group with new eyes to see and ears to hear each other.

Frequency: Discovering Your Unique Connection to God is a helpful addition to an already very helpful toolkit.  I got a number of new insights from it and I bet you will too.