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

Thank you Nathan 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:

46%

53%

81%

62%

56%

53%

59%

46%

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 feel compelled to share biblical truths accurately with others. I enjoy studying God’s word and sharing what I’ve learned with other believers.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am compelled to encourage believers to follow Jesus with all their hearts, minds and souls. I am moved by others’ complacency in Christ and deeply desire them to experience more from a life in Jesus Christ.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I want to give of myself completely to God’s purpose, to give everything I have to Him to use for His purposes.

[H]eart

1. Help others endure and overcome daily struggles.

2. Help others experience victory in their lives, inspiring them to be more like Christ and experience his power in their personal, daily life.

3. To urgently share as much biblical truth and teachings with as many people as possible with whatever time is left to me on this earth.

Youth and young adults; teens through to age 40.

Marriage, addictions, complacency in Christ, luke-warmness in the church, faithlessness, inspiring people to find their purpose in Jesus and to run with all their might into him, counselling people to experience new life and victory over daily struggles.

Marriage/family issues
Spiritual laziness
Divorce

[A]bilities

retail hardware store

management
self-employment
data collection, analysis

learning, studying
retaining, recalling information
observent
organizing
detail oriented
passionate

never

very passionately motivated and driven towards results

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Solo

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

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 grew up in church and due to a false conversion based on circumstances, I soon lost faith and trust in the church and the people of God. That distrust led to hatred and bitterness towards God’s church (Christians). I got involved in drugs, women, alcohol, pornography, everything. I wanted to play an active role in damaging the church, hurting it’s people, and uprooting the hypocrisy I saw there. But God protected me and directed my steps. Eventually He wore me down and I came to faith in Christ. Now, for 15 years, I have been running from God’s call and excusing myself from a life dedicated to serving Him. Recently God has intervened in my life in a massive way and has brought me to a place where I was broken down, hopeless, and without any options except to submit, obey and follow Him.

I volunteer at my local church in the areas of media, general tasks around the church, and wherever else I can help out.

God showing up when we needed it the most.

God giving me my wife and 3 children.

Most recently, God speaking to me in a mighty and miraculous way, climaxing in Him visiting me in a dream. Now, I must move!

My evil heart: wishing harm and failure upon the church; the drugs, alcohol, etc; my many errors. I wish to help other young people avoid the life of regret, guilt, shame and despair to which I struggle not to be enslaved to.

Nearly destroying my marriage through selfishness, anger, bitterness and pornography.

Complacency in Christ and running from God’s call; as well as trying to excuse myself from the purpose He has made me for. It has had huge negative impact on every aspect of my life – physical, marital, relational, spiritual, emotional, and mental. I want to help people out of this same struggle, to help them avoid such a life, and to inspire them to pick up their cross and get going after Jesus with everything they can muster!!

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 publicly help and inspire youth/young people avoid the mistakes I’ve made and to find ‘life to the full’ in Jesus Christ.

4. To help and counsel fellow believers and non-believers alike with issues in marriage, family, parenting, and daily life, using biblical truths and principles.

5. To reach out to and inspire as many believers to quit living mediocre lives (spiritual complacency and laziness), to realize who God truly is, and to step out in faith and experience God’s power and victory over their ‘old self’ (daily struggles/issues) every day. To inspire them to find their true purpose in God, through Jesus, and to run after him with all their heart, mind, soul and strength.