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

Thank you John Thomas 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):

93%

90%

59%

65%

59%

46%

68%

65%

78%

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 like things organized and in order.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Sharing the Gospel and Making Disciples is what God has placed in my heart to do.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am more of a teacher than a preacher. I soar when I am in front of a group of people talking and sharing about Biblical Truth.

[H]eart

1. Taking People on Mission Trips.

2. Making Disciples and encouraging others to make disciples.

3. Helping others develop their leadership abilities.

I enjoy working with those that have a passion to serve and aren’t concerned with who gets the credit.

Helping churches to become healthy and to encourage them to be the church that God wants them to be.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Marriage/family issues
Parenting

[A]bilities

I currently serve as Mission Strategist for SABA Churches

Minister of Education and Outreach, Minister of Youth,

Basic carpenter/handyman, computers, gadgets

Church Growth, Making disciples, Technology and Teaching, Marriage and Family, Parenting, Leadership

Teaching and concern for Making Disciples

[P]ersonality

Reserved

High Risk

Challenger

50-50 People/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

I was raised in a Christian home and attended church pretty regularly. I was saved a RA camp @ Shocco Springs. It wasn’t until I move to Pennsylvania that I was tested in my faith. There were not a lot of believers there and the youth group was small. However, because I was in a small church I was given the opportunity to serve in many roles because everyone had to do something. Cindy and I served as lay youth leaders, I served as treasurer and then was a deacon by the age of 26. My walk has developed over the years as God has ordained my steps. I haven’t always done exactly what he wants but strive to be a Christ-follower.

First Baptist Hanover, Youth leader, 5 years, Deacon 2 years, SS Teacher 8 years
Hodgesville, Youth minister
Rehobeth, Youth then Youth/Education 5 1/2 years
Heritage, Education/Outreach 6 1/2 years
Western Heights, Education/Outreach 2 1/2 years
Calhoun Baptist Association, Associate DOM 15 years
SABA, Mission Strategist. 2 years

Attending BCF

Experiencing God

Variety of positions that I have been able to participate in.

Hurting churches

Dismissal of an employee that brought security issues to my family and staff

Not being chosen as the DOM for Calhoun Association

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. Focus on taking people on Mission Trips

4. Have a large Disciple Making impact

5. Be part of a leadership Network to strengthen healthy churches