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

Thank you Jay Cline 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):

28%

84%

81%

53%

56%

75%

81%

75%

90%

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:
It’s my experience that I am good at Teaching. I love a lot of things (the word, settlers of catan, country dancing, etc…) The only thing I love more than those things is teaching them to others. The feedback i’ve gotten throughout my life and ministry is that I teach well because I care deeply about people and can take complicated or threatening ideas and make them meaningful to people. I am able to make content “come alive” for people.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Again, this is consistent with my experience. I have led quite a few people to Christ and followed them up, plugging them into growth opportunities. It’s not necessarily an outgrowth of having a “gift” of evangelism. I feel more like I have a “gift” of teaching and encouragement. But because i know people’s real needs are spiritual, I tend to teach the gospel and encourage them to believe in the gospel.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is also my experience. I seem to naturally attract people who have some need and I seem to have some discernment as to what that need is. More often than not, I am somewhere near the mark when I offer exhortation/encouragement in an area.

[H]eart

1. IMPARTING to others what is important to me (personal growth insights, God’s Word, country dancing, savvy financial dealings, compelling games, etc…)

2. LISTENING to people. I think people are the most fascinating thing in the universe and I am tirelessly energized by helping them think through any number of issues of significance.

3. THINKING creatively. My mind is always looking for information and recombining it with other information and coming up with new insights or possibilities. I love brainstorming and considering out-of-the box ideas

I love the inquisitive and (conversely) the skeptical. I tend to attract the college/career age (because of their inquisitiveness and need for new things) and the 40/60 year olds (because of their mid-life crisis and cynicism). I am less excited about working with the average-joe, plodding, uninterested and unengaged. I don’t mind the messiness of people in crisis or addiction or denial or resentment. I prefer that over those who are “fine”.

Helping people become self-learners from the Bible.
Discipleship (moving individuals in a particular direction).
Facilitating Connection (leading small groups, getting people connected into small groups, helping people find where they would best serve, etc…)

Compulsive behavior
Spiritual laziness
Other – Plight (and opportunities) of refugees

[A]bilities

Campus minister with Campus Crusade for Christ
(Recruiting, Training, Fundraising, Marketing, Evangelism, Discipleship, Team-Leading, Worship Leading, Teaching)

Landscaping: My undergrad was in landscape design and I worked at a company for a summer.

Farming: Grew up on a farm/ranch in Western Kansas

Marketing/Design: Freelanced as an online marketer, designing websites and marketing campaigns for businesses as diverse as dog grooming and book-publishing.

Ghostwriting: I have authored a book and several articles for someone else.

Washing windows: I put myself through seminary doing this.

Customer Service: I worked one summer in this capacity and was great at it.

Effective Teacher
Strong vocalist
Decent guitarist
Decent designer, graphic-artist
Good counselor (took several seminary classes in counseling)
Great at gruntwork (cleaning offices, shoveling dirt, etc…)
Pruning trees and doing landscape work/design
Good Versatile performer (skits, plays, drama, musical, live art, etc…)
Strong Vision-casting (getting people to see and involve themselves in a common effort)

Overview of the bible
Church History
How to Study the Bible for Yourself
How to Lead others from the Bible
Evangelism overview
Evangelism methods
The Life Of Abraham
Spiritual Warfare
The Holy Spirit
I and II Timothy
Colossians
Philippians
The Nav’s Wheel Diagram (Christ at the Center, Obedience, Prayer, Word, Fellowship, Witnessing)
Dave Ramsey’s financial material
Changes that Heal – Henry Cloud
What It Means To Be Free – EFCA Theology
The Great Commission
Overcoming Depression
I and II Thessalonaians
Basics of Christian Life

Flexibility

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Peace Maker

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

When I was 9, Child Evangelism Fellowship did a backyard bible club in my home town. I had grown up in the Lutheran Church and knew alot about God, Jesus and the Bible. I had significant issues in my life and my family that I was wrestling with. When I heard and understood the gospel through CEF, I trusted Jesus to not only take my sin away but to take up the position of leadership of my life.

At our Evangelical Free Church in Columbia, I helped lead our small group, sang in the choir.
At our Evangelical Free Church in Wheeling, IL, we were involved in a great small-group, sang in the worship team and taught in Awana (Cubbies)
At our E free Church in Colorado Springs, CO I taught several sunday school classes for adults and served on the worship team.
At Our first Church in Tucson I led the worship team and taught some sessions of our sunday school.
At our Second Church in Tucson I led the worship team and the college/career ministry

With Campus Crusade I served 10 years at the University of Missouri (primary responsibility being evangelism and discipleship in one dorm group on campus) as well as leading worship. During those years, I also spearheaded planing the college ministry at Karl Marx Economic University in Budapest, Hungary… spending one full year and 7 summers in Hungary.
I then attended seminary at TEDS in Chicago and spent one day each week starting a ministry at Kankakee Community College in Kankakee, IL
The next seven years I spent leading a catalytic team who was launching and resourcing ministries on the community college campuses of Southern Colorado. During that time I oversaw the launching of a campus ministry in Belgrade, Serbia. Spent 3 summers there and sent a year-long team from our ministry to establish the work

In college, I served at a homeless shelter, primarily in the role of connecting residents with potential jobs in the community.

Going on a summer mission to Hungary as a college student was the singular event that shaped my life. Prior to that experience, my faith and my God was inward focused and personal. Afterward, my faith became engaged with the world around me and my God became (to me) who He had always been… the God of the Universe.

Three people (Wayne McKinney who led my high school youth group, Alan Hildebrand who led my college bible study, and Dave Robinson who was my regional director with Cru) lived god-honoring lives in front of me and inspired me to follow their example.

I did a 40-day fast at the end of my time in seminary during which God revealed some paradigm-shifting realities that gave me a surety and empowerment I had not previously known.

Being unpopular and isolated growing up meant that God was literally, my best friend. I learned to distrust myself and other’s perceptions when they didn’t line up with God’s. Early on, he became Lord of my life

My dad died of emphysema, which is a long-acting, debilitating illness. From watching that experience and participating in caring for him, I learned patience, understanding, compassion, etc…

During one period of ministry at the University of Missouri, the Lord brought me into contact with several people who were significantly demonized. The intense battle for their freedom that I experienced took a real toll but through it I learned first-hand what spiritual warfare entailed and the power/security/victory that actually exists in Christ.

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. Find a cure for my wife’s chronic pain or some pathway of providing for her comfort and well-being if the problem is only going to escalate.

4. To influence a number of influencers (Disciple some individuals) who would multiply my influence for the kingdom long after I am gone.

5. Create, fund and lead a program (similar to what Randy Reynolds with Community Renewal is doing) that gets people on a holistic path (spiritual, financial, relational, emotional) to healing and restoration