What is your model of the church?
You scored as Mystical Communion Model.
Your model of the church is Mystical Communion, which includes both People of God and Body of Christ. The church is essentially people in union with Christ and the Father through the Holy Spirit. Both lay people and clergy are drawn together in a family of faith. This model can exalt the church beyond what is appropriate, but can be supplemented with other models.
| Mystical Communion Model | 72% | |
| Servant Model | 72% | |
| Sacrament Model | 72% | |
| Herald Model | 67% | |
| Institutional Model | 22% |
What is your model of the church? [Dulles]
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It’s an odd thing when I take a quiz, score the very same percentage on three items, and yet I’m supposedly one more than the others because of what I picked as a priority in the tiebreaker question.
I suspect I scored a 72 percent because the quiz used hymns to determine theology. The churches I attend don’t sing hymns very often, so it’s not accurate to say my church would sing one hymn more often than another. Besides, we all know that worship music is usually picked for the catchy tunes, riffs, and hooks rather than the theology.
If I were to pick a model for myself I would probably choose the Complex Organism Model. The church is the people of God and body of Christ; it is also servant to the world, evangelist to the world, dispenser of the sacraments and grace, and herald of the good news. It’s all these things. It doesn’t matter if I agree with one more than the other, or like one form of ministry most.
I suppose I scored low on the Institutional Model because I believe there should be no such thing as laity within the church; we’re all clergy.