S.H.A.P.E. Assessment Results
Thank you Carol Crawford 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:
65%
65%
87%
68%
81%
62%
62%
53%
71%
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 enjoy talking and sharing life with others, hearing their joys, challenges and struggles and supporting them to find stronger places within their lives.
This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I feel pain and difficulties of others and long for them to grow closer to God in their life through these. I value working with them and learning from them and their experiences.
This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy expressing God’s love and meaning for life in fresh and inspiring ways. I love to see others grow in connection with God through creative ways of understanding new ways of knowing Biblical truth.
[H]eart
1. I love to be connected in with people at a personal level, working through life experiences and sharing life together.
2. I love to spend time with my family and friends, building and maintaining relationship and encouraging each other to live life well.
3. I love to offer my skills, life and home for peopel to find a place of connection with God and others.
I enjoy working with my own peer group/adults. Those who are seeking to discover life and work at finding more effective life skills and connection with God in the real world.
Practical pastoral care/support and care of others
Relationship building
Seeing people encouraged in their experiences of God
Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Abuse/violence
[A]bilities
Being a Mum and wife
Student of counselling
Nursing
Working with and supporting others
Food/Hospitality/Serving
Creating spaces for others to be blessed
Service leading
Knowing God
My family and friends
[P]ersonality
Extrovert
Low Risk
50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger
People Driven
50-50 Follower/Leader
50-50 Routine/Variety
| 1. 2 Likes Control | 3 Enthusiastic | 4 Sensitive | 1 Reserved |
| 2. 1 Firm | 4 Energetic | 3 Non-Demanding | 2 Practical |
| 3. 3 Likes Challenge | 2 Promoter | 4 Enjoys Routine | 1 Factual |
| 4. 3 Problem Solver | 2 Mixes Easily | 4 Relational | 1 Perfectionistic |
| 5. 1 Bold | 3 Fun-Loving | 4 Thoughtful | 2 Detailed |
| 6. 1 Goal Driven | 3 Optimistic | 2 Patient | 4 Inquisitive |
| 7. 2 Strong Willed | 3 Motivator | 4 Good Listener | 1 Accurate |
| 8. 3 Takes Charge | 1 Very Verbal | 4 Loyal | 2 Predictable |
| 9. 1 Determined | 3 Popular | 2 Dislikes Change | 4 Orderly |
| 10. 1 Competitive | 2 Group Oriented | 4 Sympathetic | 3 Analytical |
| 11. 2 Purposeful | 3 Inspirational | 4 Nurturing | 1 Precise |
| 12. 2 Action Oriented | 1 Likes Change | 4 Peace Maker | 3 Scheduled |
| 22 Total | 30 Total | 43 Total | 25 Total |
Your Primary was ‘The Retriever’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Otter’, 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
Otter- Otters are very social creature. Otter personalities love people. They enjoys being popular and influencing and motivating others. Otter can sometimes be hurt when people do not like them. Otter personalities usually have lots of friends, but not deep relationships. They love to goof-off. (They are notorious for messy rooms.) Otters like to hurry and finish jobs. (Jobs are not often done well.) The otter personality is like Tigger in Winnie The Pooh.
Strength: People person, open, positive
Weakness: Talks too much, too permissive
Limitation: Remembering past commitments, follow through with discipline
[E]xperience
Learned of/experienced God and was modeled relationship with God as a child.
Grew in personal connection/new ways of relating with God as an adult.
Local church/workplace
Having positive relationships in both family and friends
Moving city and establishing adult life, new people, church and vocation
Marriage/Family building
Experiencing negatives of spiritual/religious ways
Personal struggles of my own and trying to understand myself and work with that.
Struggling to relate with my world and how I fit best within that.
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 become more effective in serving God in working with/helping people
4. To build our marriage and family life so that it can model to others life lived well
5. To experience increased understanding of the world through travelling and experiencing others around the world and to do this with my family in order for them to have enlarged perspective