More Than Your Number by Jeff and Beth McCord brings a fresh perspective to the Enneagram with the Enneagram Internal Profile. No matter your level of Enneagram knowledge or whether you have used it in your own personal growth, More Than Your Number will help you understand the different parts of you and why they are so different at times.
You'll gain more understanding as to why you can be triggered and how that has more to do with your past than your current circumstances. The awareness it brings to your understanding of yourself can help in so many ways.

I didn’t love the format of this unedited version - it was very difficult to read with the formatting. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Yes, I am more than a Type 2. This book reveals the things I am lacking - are all found through the provision Jesus Christ has provided. He will never leave me or forsake me. I can trust Him to tell me the truth, always love me, acknowledge me and give me assurance.

Type 2 is always trying to help people and gain praise - sometimes overstepping their boundaries to get some attention. God sent Jesus to the cross because I had his attention as a sinner.

This book has allowed growth, clarity and inner strength I have been missing. Knowing your type, triggers, and your strengths, gives you the tools to build a better life for you and the people you come in contact with.

This book will help you no matter what number you have been labeled with. Overcoming your number and being the person that Jesus has already provided for you. Knowing Him in a Deeper way and growing Spiritually. Read it and you will understand how to be an overcomer of your type. I will read again.

There are a ton of books out there about the Enneagram but this one brings to light some incredible understanding of scripture from a personal growth perspective. It not only helps us glean wisdom about what it means to be a new creation in Christ but it also helps us understand our human nature better. I particularly like the way it integrates the tool of the Enneagram with the psychology of internal family systems with the power of the Gospel.

“More Than Your Number” puts focus on the essential problem of fallen man, the redemptive nature of God, and together with the Enneagram has presented an amazingly powerful heart transforming tool. From a place of recognition of the root lie “God is against us”, we are empowered through faith that “God is for us” along with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to heal from this root lie. The part of me that recognizes and trusts I am God’s Beloved Child can be relied upon to learn to recognize my Wounded Child ways (motives, thoughts, and behaviors). The discerning use of this tool puts spotlights on the unhealthy Wounded Child parts of me, so alignment with healthy ways can be made - the chariot reins handed over to (or eventually and ideally, never leaves the hands of) the Beloved Child. The all knowing, almighty, God Most High brings healing to the Beloved Child through His Spirit.
Upon reading this book, I recognized in my coming from an unhealthy place in my dominant wing, I have been missing even more destructive behaviors emanating from my other parts: my opposite wing ( a wounded bird indeed) and paths (aka lines and arrows). In this recognition, this incredible tool is proving a personal GPS that once engaged deflects the fiery darts of the enemy and shoots arrows of love in return. These feathered arrows of love directed from above begin with myself, then after receiving/myself I am positioned to give to
others. I am immensely grateful to Jeff and Beth and their entire team for producing this God-inspired book!
- A Beloved Child in progress ( Daniel 4:25-26; 2 Kings 6:16-18; Isaiah 40:31)

I am a big fan of anything enneagram, and I really enjoyed the approach the McCords' used in this book. I think they did a wonderful job of bridging the gap between the Gospel and enneagram. I know in the Christian world people are cautious and sometimes afraid the enneagram will lead to too much self discovery. I would disagree, and truly believe that in order to be aligned with Christ we must know ourselves. It means knowing we are His, and understanding how He designed our internal world. I appreciated how this book dives into discovering our internal world, and breaks down what that will look like on a broad level for each type. This is a great book for any level of enneagram knowledge.

I have learned many things from Beth and Jeff McCord over the years when it comes to the Enneagram, which has helped me learn more about myself and how I react to the world around me. This book dives in with a different approach than any other Enneagram book I've ever read. By working through how we respond INTERNALLY to things, the reader is able to determine if their response is coming from a place of hurt or healing. The authors provided many personal stories within the pages, so the reader must search carefully within the stories to find the heart of the message.

This is a very interesting book. I have enjoyed learning about my enneagram number with a Christian perspective. I did have a hard time getting through some of the writing that Jeff did in the book. It's not written in the style of writing I like. But there are some very useful and interesting facts about personality in there to glean.

I also thought this book was a way to persuade readers to purchase more items from the authors. This part I was not too thrilled about. They do offer a free enneagram test to determine your number and give you a report on your number as well as some other free resources. However, there are other items that Beth and Jeff have produced that you need to purchase to use. (Not required for the book, though). But at times, felt like the book was an infomercial for more materials. I would not let this dissuade you from reading the book, just adding here as a note.

Overall, the book was interesting and has me interested in how my husband and I can use this information to make understanding each other a little easier.

More Than Your Number
by Beth McCord; Jeff McCord
Pub Date: Sept. 20, 2022
Thomas Nelson
Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC of this book. I do not believe it should be labeled "Christian" fiction.
I had hoped for more from this book. I had hoped for fewer author stories and a more biblical approach but maybe it’s also because I feel like this subject is loose steam and credibility. There are bits that are helpful for the conversation but I’m still skeptical about using these books as resources. I will not be recommending this book.
2 stars

I chose to review this book out of curiosity. I have seen 2 Enneagram books in my Christian Books category, so I thought, "Why not." I read them both, as much as I possible could stomach. I am finished reading ALL Enneagram books, and as much as they are grouped as "Christian Books", the Enneagram books are far from Christian beliefs. One book showed me it seemed wrong to call it Christian. This book validated the fact that Enneagrams are not at all intertwined with true Christian beliefs.

This was an long, drawn out explanation of life situations, and validations of behavior, based off being a "6 or a 9" on the Enneagram. Actions are not automatically made based off some man-made numbering system. You cannot blame a reaction or habit on a number, by saying "it's because I am a 6". WHAT? You are not a Christian author if you make bad choices and blame them on a number system of behaviors. Behaviors are chosen by each individual. We are all given free will to choose each action we make each and every day. There is not invisible number God puppeteering your every move, and removing your freedom to choose an action, because #9 is ruling you. It doesn't work that way.

It is time for people to step up and take control of their choices, both good and bad and realize the only thing making them act a certain way is them, not a number, a number system, or some test that told them they are a certain way because they are this "number type". You are human, given the free will of God to choose right or wrong, so stop blaming some invisible number patterns for your behavior. Trying to spread the word of numerology incorporated with God is not a good choice. Anyone who wants to read this has the free will to do so, but I hope they take responsibility for the choice to read instead of blaming a number type for their action.

I do NOT recommend this book to any Christian reader. I do NOT recommend this book being categorized under Christianity, either.

I had hoped for more from this book. I had hoped for less author stories and more biblical approach but maybe it’s also I feel like this subject is loose steam and credibility. There are bits that are helpful for the conversation but I’m still skeptical about using these books as resources.

I was drawn to this book after listening to an episode of the authors’ podcast. I liked some of their interpretations of the enneagram and that they come to it from a Christ-focused perspective. I had forgotten that I’d read their book Becoming Us and was disappointed by it. I had the same frustrations with this book. The information about the enneagram is buried under many stories from the authors' lives and they would have been well served by a ghost writer. I did not finish it. Goodreads rating: 2 stars (It was ok.)