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

Thank you Glenn Harlow 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:

40%

28%

65%

37%

71%

28%

15%

87%

21%

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 believe an expectation from God is that we serve others.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I hurt when people are in pain, desperate, need help. I understand what is it like to need mercy. God has shown me great mercy and forgiveness

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
My heart is toward lifting people up and making them understand just how much they mean to God and to others. I encourage because people have encouraged me through my life and I know how that has impacted me.

[H]eart

1. I love being with my wife, my children and my grandchildren. I understand what it is like to not have a positive male role model in my life and I feel it is so important for me to be that for my whole family

2. My heart beats to be with my friends. Both believers and non believers. I recognize God has put many people in my life for my encouragement as well as me being able to encourage them

3. My heart beats to be as close to God as I can. Traveling 100% of the time for my family, I have lots of time to myself. I find myself spending my days and evenings talking with God. It allows me to lift my burdens and concerns to him and I really feels it allows me to have a personal relationship with God have so much time to myself.

I have a burden for men who are unemployed or underemployed. it is such a difficult time for a man.

Praise and Worship though the music ministry is exciting to me. I also feel spending time with people in the church is so important and I have a concern that the church today does not find that important. I hear lots of talk about small groups and having that close contact but I see little or no response for the church members to encourage that. I’ve found it very frustrating when I see others or myself reaching to develop relationships with the body of believers, but don’t see willingness on their part to reach out or accept people.

Homelessness
Marriage/family issues
Poverty/hunger

[A]bilities

Consultant in the Oil and Gas Industry with a focus on driving process improvements, developing leadership skills, team building and project management

Manufacturing, Production Planning, System implementation, teaching and training

Team building, encouragement, praying for others, compassion

Work related to system use, team building, planning

forgiveness, being a true friend, having a positive attitude

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Variety

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

As a youngster based on my great grandmother influence, constant praying for me, and God calling me into His Kingdom

Crestmont Baptist Church 35 years

Being taught by a mature Christian woman what following Jesus meant and how it looked.

Example of believers teaching me to pray understanding the power that God has, his influence in my everyday life and seeing Him at work in making all things work together for my good.

Christian friends who love my unconditionally and are always there to pray for me and lift me up in times of need

Not have a positive male influence in my life as a child

Knowing what it is to not have enough. Not just money, but not being able to meet my families needs

Understanding what it is to need a friend

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 be able to live full time with my family in Burleson

4. To live on a lake and have my family and friends often sharing that time with me and my wife

5. To retire and travel with my wife and family