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

Thank you Harvey Gilbert 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:

9%

71%

71%

90%

90%

28%

25%

50%

50%

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 blessed me from youth with good biblical teaching, generosity of time, encouragement, understanding, counsel, friendship, caring for those in need, and unconditional love. Whole life generosity.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Many who were patient, understanding and encouraging to me over my lifetime.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This may, for me, be from my concern and encouragement for many through being
Jesus to others: taught youth Sunday school, coached my brother’s friends, led Fellowship of Chrstian Athletes in junior and senior high school, was chaplain for my fraternity, visited the sick/hospitalized, and prayed with them, and others. Did occasionally verbally share the gospel, but not often. When receiving an FCA award, was able to share my testimony.

[H]eart

1. Love, appreciate and encourage family. Camping, baseball (playing, coaching, umpiring), public school teacher, youth ministry.

2. Coming along side those who are hurting, in some kind of need (i.e. volunteer youth counselor for those in trouble with the law.) Helping young people through teaching, coaching and leading Christian activities.

3. Being part of a wonderful family and extended family. Travels, re-unions, camping.

Those teaching, counseling, coaching young people. Church and youth leadership. All ages of Christian fellowship participants.

Excite: the close bond of those in shared ministry/teaching of youth. Being associated with committed Christians!

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Financial stewardship
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Former public school teacher (4th through high school).
Retired and spending time with grandchildren. Volunteer at church.

Part-time church care and education ministry.

Health and availability.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

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

Parents dropped us boys off at church; solid teaching; loved by teachers and given opportunity to teach; loved Jesus but baseball more; college friend shared Jesus with me; gave up first love (baseball) and trusted Jesus to be first love.

See above. Taught 6th grade brother’s SS class though not saved.

Fraternity chaplain; Fellowship of Christian Athletes (adult leader as well as high school and middle school leader).

Part time care ministry for our church.
All in Omaha, Nebraska.

High School varsity baseball player.

Those who counseled me in college, giving me direction for education career. Also, my Boys Scout Scout Master who believed in me and had me become a Patrol leader…eventually resulting in my many leadership roles.

Meeting and marrying my Christian wife.

Low self-esteem, though much loved by my parents.

High school, memory and learning struggles; entered school at age four.

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. All my children and grandchildren to be saved.

4. To remain faithful until I die.

5. My wife and I to finish strong.