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

Thank you Joe Larche 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):

75%

59%

43%

87%

28%

56%

43%

65%

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:
Scripture calls us to give sacrificially to further God’s kingdom and the Holy Spirit has been more than generous in my career and life and I am compelled to give back. Financial Peace was the real turning point for our family.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I spend all day at work managing projects, budgets and people and that translates well into church related activities

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Serving probably should be #1 on my list as that is a key element to my successful walk with Jesus. When I am not able to serve it distracts from everything I do inside and outside of church

[H]eart

1. Successfully manage my organization at work to meet and exceed our goals while providing the most productive work environment possible

2. Watch what God is doing with and through my children’s lives. They are each amazingly gifted and watching God develop them to use those gifts to further His kingdom is a true delight!

3. Growing things. Watching a mama donkey give birth to her baby and sometimes helping the process and other times just watching and marveling at what and how God has designed our world and each amazing facet of it.

Mature adults. (Which is not bounded by age or type. Sometimes the young are very mature and often older people are not at all)

Worship and Music

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Financial stewardship
Disabilities

[A]bilities

Manage a team of very talented engineers who maintain the world’s largest Business to Business electronic commerce infrastructure

Oil and gas exploration
Stage/vocal production (lights, sound, graphics, set design, etc.)

Computers

Experiencing God
Men With No Regrets
Financial Peace

Enthusiasm

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

High Risk

Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Team

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

38 years old. Drug addict for 19. Two failed marriages. Given up. Holy Spirit brought Michele into my life. She encouraged me to attend church. Then a small group. The leader of that small group had a remarkably similar history as mine and through his and Michele’s encouraged I gave my life to Jesus and then married this amazing young women.

Cottonwood Creek – Tech team. Culminating in Sunday service program director. 6 years.

Crossroads Cowboy Church – Small church. I did everything except sound. (Content creation for slides, videos, etc. Ran Media Shout during services, etc.) 4 years

Stonebriar Coffee House (secondary venue on Sunday mornings featuring contemporary worship, bible study and fellowship) Ran sound. 1 year.

Meeting my wife

Attending Financial Peace

Having children (For 48 years doctors told me I could not father a child. God didn’t listen to them)

Drug addiction

Broke my back and was paralyzed for nearly a year

My father growing up

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. Operate a pastors retreat center

4. Visit and study in Israel

5. Go on frequent mission trips to spread the gospel through service and teaching