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

Thank you Bruce Swahlan 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):

71%

37%

25%

65%

34%

31%

28%

71%

43%

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 am a planner and able to piece together lots of details to form a big picture plan which allows everyone to move in the same direction. I am a Project Engineer at Harris which means I exercise organizing and leading on a daily basis.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I prefer not to be in the spotlight; I prefer to be the right hand man that helps make a leader successful.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God has blessed me throughout my life and biblical tithing has proven God faithful

[H]eart

1. My wife (ICU Nurse) who is the most compassionate person I know. She continually puts the needs of others above her own

2. My Son and Daughter of which I am so proud and thankful to God for. I honestly could not have asked anything better than what God provided.

3. I enjoy most all arts including pottery, painting, and photography. I have a fully working pottery studio with pottery wheels and kilns. I enjoy displaying and demonstrating my pottery at art shows

I enjoy working with people who do not seek recognition and are willing to serve and be behind the scenes to make the church successful

I am a trained troubleshooter when it comes to technical issues. Media (visual/sound/lights). Creating props and decorations for events.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Electrical Engineer at Harris that works as a project engineer bringing together multiple groups to plan, track and execute projects from start to finish.

Technician – troubleshooting problems to determine root cause and develop a solution

Pottery, painting, photography

Pottery; not that I have yet but there are amazing spiritual truths that can be conveyed through the making a vessel from a lump of clay. The centering, opening, lifting, shaping and trimming are all directly applicable to how God shapes us and even though we make bad mistakes, the consequence is seen but through God’s mercy and grace, a vessel of beauty can still be made in spite of mistakes

responsible, takes ownership of those things in my charge

[P]ersonality

Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

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 have from a very early age been drawn to Christ through watching Billy Graham crusades on TV. I publicly accepted Christ at a Word of Life rally at age 16 and baptized at age 19. I am a sinner saved by grace of which I am totally undeserving of.

Multimedia @ Lockmar Baptist, Covenant Presbyterian, and 1st Baptist of Melbourne. All local churches.

My wife and I love cooking and would love to serve in a ministry preparing meals for church events.

Choir at Lockmar Baptist, Teaching kids Sunday school when my kids were young. Mission trip to Mexico to build a home through Homes of Hope

Mexico mission trip and seeing how a vast majority of the world lives compared to any one in the US

My kids and the true blessing they are to me. Seeing them grow from birth to adults has been an amazing journey

Godly men of God that lead their churches not for wealth or fame but a genuine passion for every soul in their care coming to know Christ and living eternity with Christ

Broken marital relationship that led to divorce

Seeing kids from homes where parents do not love or nurture but rather neglect their kids

Fake pastors that are leading people to Hell

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. Serve in the church to enable many coming to Christ

4. A voice that would be able to lead others in true worship through connection to God through passionate worship

5. Use my talents (pottery) to witness and relate God principles