Personality (Temperament) Types and the Emergent Church Movement

I've embarked upon a brief exploration into the world of the Emergent Church Movement.  Though the Wikipedia article sucks, imo, the book by Dan Kimball, the Emerging Church: Vintage Christianity for New Generations is actually pretty good.  Dan explains not only some of the "distinctives" of the Emergent Church (not that he'd ever use that word), but he also explains why it's called Emerging in the first place. 

What struck me, though, as I read about this Emerging (or Postmodern) generation (characterized by a lack of belief in absolutes, an interest in the spiritual and mysterious, a strong distaste for institutionalized Christianity, a longing for authenticity and a need to experience a relationship with God rather than sitting back and being told about it) is that is sounds very much like the NF personality temperament type.

An NF: "searches for meaning and authenticity, empathetic, highly responsive to interpersonal transactions, keeps in close contact with others, highly personalized, gives and needs strokes freely."  (from Type Talk at Work, How the 16 personality types determine your success on the job by Otto Kroeger with Janet M. Thuesen and Hile Rutledge.)

While on the other hand, what Dan refers to as the Modern generation (characterized by adherence to absolutes as guide-stones in life (absolutes either from religion or science), a preference for structure, systems and institutions, and putting a high value on knowledge and formal education) sounds very much like the SJ personality temperament type.

An SJ: "strives to belong and contribute, prizes harmony and service, orderly, dependable, realistic, understands and conserves institutional values, expects other to be realistic, supplies stability and structure, more likely to reward institutionally than personally (trophies, letters, etc), can be critical of mistakes more easily than rewarding expected duties." (also from Type Talk at Work, How the 16 personality types determine your success on the job by Otto Kroeger with Janet M. Thuesen and Hile Rutledge.)

Is it just that NF's often lead the way into new movements and eventually SJ's take over and institutionalize the movement?  Or is Dan thinking that he's reaching a new and emerging generation when all he's really doing is reaching a specific subset of people that have been with us from time immemorial?

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Another good page on NFs.
Another good page on SJs.