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):

87%

100%

90%

84%

50%

75%

84%

18%

100%

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:
Very clearly this is a central ministry gift that I have and use as a lifestyle.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is a central part of what I am gifted to do.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am an encouraging leader.

[H]eart

1. Leading people to faith in Christ Jesus.

2. Mentoring, coaching and Discipling men.

3. Teaching and Preaching

Men of all ages. I have a keen interest in discipling younger men.

Finding the most strategic ways to reach unchurched people.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Other – Evangelism

[A]bilities

Semi Retired former pastor who served 20 years as a leadership consultant.

Served as President and CEO of three businesses.

Primarily a strategist.

Boundaries and Relationships
Organizational Engagement and Team Building
How to share your faith
Overcoming Trauma
Changing Destructive Belief Patterns

Conceptualizing winning strategies
Building Teams
Engaging Men

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Team

Variety

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

Golden Retriever- Good at making friends. Very loyal. Retriever personalities do not like big changes. They look for security. Can be very sensitive. Very caring. Has deep relationships, but usually only a couple of close friends. Wants to be loved by everyone. Looks for appreciation. Works best in a limited situation with a steady work pattern.

Strength: Accommodating, calm, affirming
Weakness: Indecisive, indifferent, unable to express emotional, too soft on other people
Limitation: Seeing the need to be more assertive, holding others accountable

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

[E]xperience

I was raised by two very devout believers. I had a life-changing experience with God at six and did not grow in my faith for over 13 years. I surrendered my life to Jesus in my first year of college. I believe I trusted God at six but began following Jesus at 19.

I sang and preached in college as part of a large men’s chorus that traveled over 10,000 miles singing and sharing Christ.

In the Marine Corps I led a youth group at the base Chapel in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and would frequently be invited to speak at the base Chapel.

I experienced God’s call to ministry and served at the following places:
As minster of Youth at Wildwood Baptist Church (Bethesday MD.)
As minister of Music and Youth at Potomac Baptist (Sterling VA)
As Senior Pastor of 1st Baptist Mt. Rainier,MD
As Senior Pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist, Washington, D.C.
As Founding and Senior Pastor of Tysons Community Church, Tysons Corner

Having to live my faith as a Marine drove me into the scriptures.

Learning to share my faith through Evangelism Explosion and being discipled by a Pastor in my Seminary Days

Serving on Capitol Hill caused me to come to understand what God wanted me to do in training and influencing leaders.

Going through three violent life and death experiences during a 28 month period of time in my 15 – 17 years of life caused me to have to do some very difficult recovery work.

Serving two churches in which there was no vision and no commitment that caused me to dig deep to discover how to avoid making those kinds of commitments that are unlikely be productive.

When planting a church I failed to understand the need to stay in my lane and use my best gifts and did not understand that I needed to find others to do the things that I did not do well.

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. Build a national discipleship network preparing young professionals to learn to integrate their walk with Jesus and their professional lives to influence the world to Jesus.

4. Build a gathering place for men in which they could experin

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