S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Results

Thank you for taking the SHAPE Assessment. We encourage you to meet with a Church Leader that you respect, to go over your results, so that they can help you discover a place to serve in the church and/or community, and also to help you fine-tune your 5 Main Focuses/Priorities listed at the bottom of this email under the ‘Wrapping it up’ section. May God Bless You!

[S]piritual Gifts

Here is how your spiritual gifts scored (in alphabetical order):

31%

65%

71%

46%

53%

56%

40%

46%

81%

To see descriptions on the Spiritual Gifts and how you can use them to further Christ’s Kingdom on earth, visit this link.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I tend to need more information than an average learner to fully understand and build a conceptual model of new material. In other words I might be a “slow learner”. However, I’ve found this tends to make me effective as a teacher as I try relay new information to new learners, as I am careful not to skip over the relevant details when teaching.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I want to understand what causes a persons problems to persist and help them to find ways to solve or accept them as features of their lives that can be worked with if they cannot be eliminated.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am intrigued with the possibility of reaching others who have faced doubts and hurdles in their lives similar to my own that kept them from understanding why they want and need God in their lives. I see that there is a great deficit of substantive meaning and integrity in the culture of modern people. I would like to be an agent for new understanding of what God has to offer to people of all creeds.

[H]eart

1. I enjoy pondering and discussing the significance of finding purpose in our lives and prospecting what are the changes we will all face in this ever shifting chaotic modern world.

2. Working on new projects and ideas to solve problems for myself and others.

3. I enjoy technology and working with my hands, snow boarding, creative stuff .

I enjoy working with well intentioned people who are not afraid of the new and different. I truly have no preference when it come to age. I want to learn from people of any age that have something to teach me or can be assisted by something that I have to offer.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Abuse/violence
Policy/politics

[A]bilities

Solar installations/electrical work.

Machining, metal fab, maintenance.

NA

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Solo

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Beaver’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Lion’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

Beaver- Organized. Beavers think that there is a right way to do everything and they want to do it exactly that way. Beaver personalities are very creative. They desire to solve everything. Desire to take their time and do it right. Beavers do not like sudden changes. They need reassurance.

Strength: High standards, order, respect
Weakness: Unrealistic expectations of self & others, too perfect.
Limitation: Seeing the optimistic side of things, expressing flexibility

Lion- This personality likes to lead. The lion is good at making decisions and is very goal-oriented. They enjoy challenges, difficult assignments, and opportunity for advancement. Because lions are thinking of the goal, they can step on people to reach it. Lions can be very aggressive and competitive. Lions must learn not to be too bossy or to take charge in other’s affairs.

Strength: Goal-oriented, strong, direct
Weakness: Argumentative, too dictatorial
Limitation: Doesn’t understand that directness can hurt others, hard time expressing grace

[E]xperience

For years I questioned whether God existed and would have told others that I was agnostic. In the past few years I came to see the examples of Christian friends as proof that truth as stated by secular voices was destructive and ineffective for making sense of the ”mystery” of our lives and our consciousness. I started to search again for God’s direction and prayed for him to show me how he works. I have seen the difference he makes in others and the power to change and provide the the impossible, removal of self doubt and meaningless. I accepted Jesus as my savior when I was at my lowest after being broken up with by the girl I loved. I can say honestly that if not for Gods help and the inspiration of Jesus’s selfless sacrifice for us I believe I would be wallowing in self pity and aimlessness. But he has continued to have patience with me and I want continue to follow him and grow to meet his greatest potential for me.

Reading Jordan Peterson’s 12 rules for live was a great inspiration for me to change the way I looked at things.

Traveling to Haiti and then later to Washington Oregon and Canada for several months with a few friends to work and find new jobs on the road helped me to be more self reliant and grow a larger perspective.

I’ve been in a depression before that robbed me of physical and mental energy to the point of being useless.

Wrapping It Up

The Challenge: Based upon your S.H.A.P.E. Assessment above (the way God wired you), If you knew you couldn’t fail … and ‘lack of money, or time’ was not an obstacle… list your Top 3 Things you would ‘Focus’ your Life on, next to #1 Loving God & #2 Loving Your Neighbor (these would be your ‘3 God-Sized Dreams’ for your life)?

1. My Relationship with GOD

2. My Relationship with Others

• Putting Your Spouse First
• Your Kids Second
• Everyone Else After those

3. To have a family and become somebody that can be useful in my community.

4. To build a company that build products for people that are innovative profitable for myself, my employees and the end users.

5. To raise children that are happy productive and influential in the greater sphere of D