Spiritual Styles: The Nine Sacred Pathways
This resource is designed to help you discover how you naturally connect to God, what your spiritual style is, and it also provides practices to try out based on your particular style.
In Sacred Pathways: Discover Your Soul's Path to God, Gary L Thomas describes nine different spiritual styles or “sacred pathways.” We all love and connect to God in different ways. God created us all with a certain personalities and spiritual temperaments, which make us gravitate towards certain types of practices and prayers. God wants us to feel free to worship, according to the way he made us. A sacred pathway describes the way we relate to God, how we draw near to him. We can identify our sacred pathway and use practices which come naturally to that pathway as an easier way of connecting to God. We do not necessarily have to have just one pathway, most of us, however, will naturally have a certain predisposition for relating to God, which is our predominant spiritual temperament.
There are three steps to this process:
Take the spiritual style test
Identify your spiritual style(s) below
Try out some of the spiritual practices suggested for your style