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

Thank you David Greene 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):

84%

87%

56%

68%

71%

59%

40%

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 enjoy being with people and building relationships.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Working side by side with others builds trust and deep relationships.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Helping others organize and get there work done give me pleasure.

[H]eart

1. Be with my family, church family and friends.

2. Working hard to accomplish a task that brings others joy.

3. Serve my wife her morning coffee, breakfast, and supper.

My close circle of friends that I’ve had a 30 year plus relationship with and their child who think of me as their uncle. Those age groups are the 60’s, 20’s, and 30 somethings.

Getting members to discover the gifts they have to use in service to God. The thing that concern me the most is when people want others to serve them instead of jumping in and serving along side of each other.

Marriage/family issues
Financial stewardship
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Connecting Director at church.

Vice president of Development and over operations.

I enjoy encouraging people, working along side folks to complete a task, singing songs we all enjoy, and sharing what God has given us.

The letters of Paul, how to estimate a roadway construction project, high school algebra, and how to get connected at church.

Being able to encourage someone.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/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

My faith was developed through watching and learning from my parents. Once I became an adult I developed my on faith and came to know what it meant to be a true follower and believer. To be obedient I gave my life to God and was baptized at the age of 22.

Worked with the youth ministry for years from 1980 to 1991. Served as a deacon for the next two years at Quince Road Church of Christ. Memphis, Tn.

Then helped start Community Church and help preach, teach, and lead worship for the next 6 years. Memphis, Tn.

For the last 21 years I’ve been at Hope Church serving as a substitute bible teacher, elder, and volunteering in many areas. Now I’m on staff at Hope. Memphis, Tn. area.

Working with teenagers and being asked to serve as a deacon.

Helping to start a church that welcomed anyone who came in the doors.

Joining a large church that loved me in spite of my flaws.

An elder that treated people very unkindly and was not held accountable for that behavior by the other elders.

Being wounded by such a legalistic and condemnatory church up bring.

Leadership that has an agenda of their own to see themselves elevated instead of God being glorified.

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. That my prayer life and quiet time with God be more real.

4. That my wife and daughter would never get cancer again.

5. That my daughter would listen to the truth being told to here and return to her husband.