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

Thank you Bow Standing Rock 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:

71%

96%

87%

75%

84%

68%

81%

71%

90%

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 have always had a passion of sharing my faith and love to others since the beginning of my walk with Jesus because of what I have seen Him doing in my life and other people’s lives. I think I could take it step further in bigger groups of people or a smaller group, in which I do have experience in both already, to share my love and faith so that everyone can grow together. The love I have for other people who are suffering inspires me to grow in my faith so I can build them up through the experiences I have with Jesus (it’s because I have known a lot of suffering in my life that I do this).

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love teaching others things that I am very passionate about, so being passionate about Jesus, the Gospel, and a bunch of other things allows me to learn and grow more in those things and teach others what I know. If I don’t have an answer to anything, I am always joyfully willing to take the time to learn more of what I don’t know. I also grow more if I do teach others what I know and usually I end up learning a lot more than what I’ve known beforehand.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
The Holy Spirit has helped me break out of a lot of dark seasons in my life so being able to recognize people who are hurt gives me delight to be able to pick them up with my words or actions using the same Spirit’s guidance. I have also been told that I change a lot of people’s hearts for Jesus with my friendships, words, or actions alone.

[H]eart

1. I love to create and play all different types of music. My favorite time to be alone is playing the piano or guitar, singing or not.

2. I love to play games or sports because I get to be with other people and yell around.

3. I love to cook and eat food with other people because I love community, especially when it is around a bunch of food.

I love to work with little kids because I have a passion of helping little ones grow to be awesome followers of Jesus before they get older. I also love to work with teenagers in high school because I am not very far off the age group, so I can relate to them and they are my biggest inspiration in life.

I love it when Churches go out of their way to do “church” differently like play new music that you don’t normally play in a traditional church, or approach deeper harder topics that make most people want to leave the building. Some churches I have been to don’t necessarily take the time to grow together, so being able to create an atmosphere of close community for people who feel distant is really important.

Marriage/family issues
Abuse/violence
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

I currently work at a grocery store as a cashier.

I have been a cook, a waiter, a retail clothing salesman, burrito roller, sawyer, involved with landscaping, ranch work, sonic engineer, and Sunday school K-6 leader.

I play piano, guitar, drums, and I can sing. I love to create music and work with computers and technology. I have a strong determination to work hard at everything I do.

Piano skills and creating music.

My ability to think outside of the box for new and exciting ideas.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Variety

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

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

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

I was an underdog and an outcast growing up in a big family of failures, so I never seen myself as valuable or likable, so later down my life I threw myself out and became super bitter at everyone around me unless I could fully trust them. When I was first invited to a youth group meeting my senior year of highschool I was shocked to be even be getting an invitation from someone. So I ended up going after 2 months of waiting and thinking about it, and I was invited into a place where I was fully excepted and loved for who I was and who I was to become. I knew that in the church, I was home and I seen the love of the Father through my pastor and his family whom I was adopted into. That same love brought me to the feet of God asking for mercy expecting to receive punishment for all that I have done; instead, I was given love and unjust judgement and a great task to love everyone I meet.

Living Water Church, Box Elder MT, Worship/Nursery, 1 year.

Zootown Church, Missoula MT, Worship/Cameras/Sound/Kids Ministry, 1.5 years.

I volunteered to work with kids in the grades K through 6th.

Sharing my passion for Jesus to hundreds of students on the University of Montana campus.

Showing love and ultimate forgiveness to a person who stole hundred of dollars from me.

My mother used to be a drug addict and a prostitute and she used to take me and my siblings with her on her jobs.

My dad used to beat me and mentally abuse me growing up resulting in me having anger, depression, anxiety, and several other mental illnesses.

When I left home, several of my close friends in school and in my family died and the years that followed, more passed on and I couldn’t return home to be with them.

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. go to Hillsong College in Australia to pursue music.

4. get married and have a family.

5. be highly involved with teenagers in a youth group.