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

Thank you Jose 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):

96%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

96%

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:
I love Evangelism because I get to have the opportunity to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who don’t know him personally. It has been in my heart since my childhood. I love seeing unbelievers coming to Jesus, especially when God touches them.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love giving speaking the Word of God to every one. I enjoy preaching the word just how it is supposed to be.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love giving to the Lord through my finances. I can say the truth, there have been times where it has been hard to give because of crisis or needs I have had, but learned that giving to God is the best thing to do. I have been more blessed when I give to the Lord with a sincere, grateful and happy heart.

[H]eart

1. I love preaching the Word of God and unbelievers coming to Jesus. That brings me great joy because lost sheeps are being found by God.

2. I love when the Holy Spirit ministers people. Especially when they are crying and being touched by His Presence, that brings me great joy.

3. Giving to the needy also brings joy to me. It is a special moment where we can get connected to the community and take advantage to spread to gospel.

I love to work with the youth the most. From the middle-school kids to the young adults, I love to invest in the young generation.

The youth ministries many times are neglected and that concerns me the most. The youth are NOT the future generation of tomorrow, but are the generation of the NOW TODAY. I believe we must invest in them much more so that they are ready to preach the Word of God

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Drug abuse/recovery
Marriage/family issues

[A]bilities

Pastor & Evangelist

teacher in kids ministry, worship team leader, musician, chorus, lead singer, usher, cleaning crew, youth leader, evangelism leader, mentor for kids and youth ministry.

playing music (piano, drums, guitar, bass and trumpet), preaching.

Discipleship, baptism, salvation, end times,

to be an includer and being passionate.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

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

At the age of 4, my parents became saved and started to go to church. I grew up in church but at the age of 10 is when I accept Christ in to my heart. At 12, is when I got baptized by the waters.

Iglesia Roca de Salvacion Pentecostes (Pentecost Church Rock of Salvation)
Location: Glendale, AZ
Total year(s) in this ministry: 9 years
Worship leader, singer and pianist: 9 years
Kids Ministry teacher: 2 years
Youth Leader: 4 years
Music tech: 5 years
(There would be at times that I would be in certain services as an usher, selling food, cleaning crew, evangelism, intercession group and audio/media tech.)

Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal M.I. (I.M. Pentecostal Church of God)
Location: Tempe, AZ
Total year(s) in this ministry: 1
Worship team: pianist for 9 months
Youth Ministry: Youth mentor assistant for 5 months

Tabernaculo del Rey de Gloria (Tabernacle of the King of Glory)
Location: Phoenix, AZ
(This is my parents’ ministry; we started since August 2019)
Worship Team Leader: currently
Worship Musician & Lead Singer: currently
Youth Leader: currently
Audio/Media Tech: currently

The first positive experience would be my parents creating and nurturing me into the gospel. I’d say that because my parents, especially my dad, would push me to serve God from a young age. He was the one who had an initiative from God to first place to learn music. And because of the music, I was more bound to stay in church.

The second experience that made a big impact was to work with the youth during my high school years in the church called Church Rock of Salvation. I was able to learn a lot from that local pastor. He had an interesting background as during his teen and young adult years in Los Angeles.

The third experience that changed me was when I was in the I.M. Pentecostal Church of God as a pianist in the worship team. Despite having some years of playing the piano and other instrument, I learned a lot from the worship leader and especially from the official pianist of the church. This young key player dispite being at times arrogant and cocky, which I found it funny, he was really helpful towards me and really wanted me to learn well. He had a lot of talent not one only in the music (which he was very good musician in drums, piano, guitar, bass), but also in the audio/media department. I really did appreciate his friendship and do at times chat with him.

One of the churches where we spent the most time, was the one where we as my whole family were hurt, bruised, and many times backstabbed by many leaders there. I learned in that ministry that only God should be trusted. I also learned that I must place my sight on God and not on man, because man will always change but God is always faithful.

NOTE: God did a process of healing for us the whole family and no longer do we hold a grudge; But on the contrary, we bless them and pray that God may bless them and help them correct their wrong ways.

Second, from the same ministry, I learned that one should never use the pulpit to hurt people by throwing indirects. I say many people come and leave because of these type of wrong management to the flock of Christ. One thing is that a person leaves because the word convicted that person but felt it hard because wants to continue to live in sin. Another thing is that use the pulpit in a way that because you didn’t get what you wanted from that person, and do it at your benefit.

The third experience was also in the same ministry. I learned that the church should not be known as a place where they sell food as a profit for the church, but be known as a place of prayer and worship to God. I would see that they would emphasize the food sale every weekend. Also, I learned that the pulpit should not be used to ask money for almost every project. I completely understand that in life and in the ministry, money is needed to move forward, but when it becomes a demand so much that, again, using the pulpit to attack indirectly those who haven’t given.
NOTE: A reminder, we have fully forgiven all these people and we pray to God that He may have mercy on them. That God may help them understand the errors they have committed and to correct them in Jesus Name.

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. Evangelistic Pastor preaching in youth crusades and conferences

4. Financing churches and ministries to third-world countries from Mexico to South America

5. Building a Christian music school for students from K-12 & college.