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

Thank you Greg Warren 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):

100%

81%

84%

96%

65%

84%

93%

68%

100%

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:
God has given me leadership skills for use at home, in the church and at work. I love helping others grow and find success.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
It is a great joy to see others grow in the wisdom of the Lord.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God has generously given to us and we take the stewardship of His gifts seriously and find great joy in giving.

[H]eart

1. Growing people and organizations to achieve Godly goals.

2. encouraging and challenging spiritual leaders to help them be all they can be for the Lord.

3. Stretching and growing to be more like Christ.

Adults coming together to do ministry for His glory.

Leading, teaching, encouraging others.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Financial stewardship
At-risk children

[A]bilities

Actuarial and pharmacy financial consultant.

Finance, negotiations

Newcomers classes, Crown ministries (similar to financial peace), basic doctrine, biblical counseling

Leading, teaching, organizing groups

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Otter’, 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

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

Grew up in pastor’s home. Accepted Christ as 4year old reading children’s Christian stories.

Led some student run ministries at Wheaton College. Spent summer in Amsterdam on missions trip in college.

Organized and coached about a dozen men’s small groups in young adult ministry at Harvest Bible Chapel in Rolling Meadows IL. Served on ministry leadership team there. Went to Ethiopia on two missions trips through HBC.

Served on church plant leadership team (3 lay people and two pastors) for Harvest Bible Chapel in Crystal Lake IL. Served on deacon board (responsible for finances, facility and benevolence fund) there for six years including 3 years as Chair. Taught newcomer classes. Counseled some troubled marriages with Colbey. Also served as Chair of Board for Tri-County Pregnancy & Parenting Services in Crystal Lake IL for five years. Served on Board at Trinity Oaks Christian Academy in Cary IL for 2 years before moving to Colorado.

Marriage to Colbey and the arrival of our three children has made me much more fun (can you imagine me before?) and enhanced my compassion and mercy and evangelism.

Serving in the YAM at HBC in Rolling Meadows taught me so much about ministry leadership, counseling and doctrinal Discernment and was just a ton of fun. Missions trips to Amsterdam and Ethiopia (2) and the process of adopting from Ethiopia (2 more trips there) grew my heart for the hurting and other cultures.

Church planting in Crystal Lake IL taught me so much about keeping ministry simple and focused and transparent. The sense of community and togetherness was unbeatable.

Making serious mistakes as a leadership team at the Crystal Lake IL church plant taught me so much about God’s mercy and the importance of transparency and humility in leadership (plus lots of pragmatic tactical lessons).

Losing my job in IL taught much about God’s sovereignty and grace and generosity (and brought us to CO 🙂 )

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. Helping build The Rock into all God has for it to be in the Front Range and beyond

4. Building into numerous local and global ministries to use my gifts to impact the world for Christ and His Kingdom

5. Enhancing the church around the world with stronger biblical counseling capabilities.