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

Thank you Chad Joiner 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):

21%

87%

81%

59%

90%

31%

59%

87%

53%

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 with mental illness and addiction in my life, personal and others, so I understand the hopelessness. I love people and there is a lot of unnecessary pain in our community and country. This is the work I feel good with.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Not evangelism as in street preaching… I like to talk to people in small groups or one on one. My evangelism would be when working with people that are hopeless, mental health issues, and addiction. I like for people to know that I care about them first before I start speaking about faith.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love serving when I’m a part of something bigger. No task is too small when it’s in the work of building people up.

[H]eart

1. Making other people happy

2. Serving

3. Raising my daughter

Young adults trying to understand life and any kids

Excite me: trying to find a way to show people that chasing the things of the world aren’t always what’s fulfilling… Money and status feed the ego but not the soul. I don’t you know what that looks like as far as a ministry.

Concern: I don’t care for being too legalistic with people about Christianity. I feel like the church ( God’s people, me included) are not concerned enough with taking care of people’s basic needs in our community and sharing our faith through that service. Instead we focus on pointing out what others are doing wrong and trying to lead them to salvation that way.

Homelessness
Poverty/hunger
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Self employed

Insurance and Risk Management

Not sure

Insurance

Loyalty

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

Follower

Solo

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

We were in and out of church when I was a kid. Never really understood the basics or what it was to be Christian or even how to become a Christian. There’s a history of mental illness in my family and it didn’t skip me. I’ve always been filled with some level of anxiety and tension inside of me no matter what’s going on even as a young kid I never felt at peace. In college I was talking to someone who worked for campus crusade for Christ. He shared some scriptures with me which didn’t really land but when he started explaining how to put Christ at the center of your life and how to accept Christ into your life I was overwhelmed with a feeling of peace that I never had. It didn’t last but that feeling was attached to Christ and I knew for me that this is was the answer. I’ve been searching way to find peace my whole life and I got to glimpse of it in a conversation about Christ. I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior that day. The road has been up and down but I know I’m on the right path.

My daughter being born

Meeting my wife

Leaving my hometown

Parents divorce as a kid

Mother had and affair my uncle (her sisters husband). Tore our family apart.

Dad was not in my life for 20 years

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. End hunger

4. End homelessness

5. End hopelessness