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

Thank you Thomas (Ed) Johnson 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):

71%

81%

75%

53%

59%

71%

71%

53%

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:
I like to pass on whatever knowledge I possess.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Sharing truth of Christ is what I feel that I’m called to.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I’ve always been able to understand other folks needs and move toward helping them.

[H]eart

1. Sharing Christ’s love through everyday involvement in other peoples lives.

2. Helping people grow closer to God through Prayer, Study and Scripture. guiding them daily to a closer walk with God.

3. Spending time with my Kids and grandkids.

Mostly men my age or younger. I love to see men gain knowledge of the presence of God in their lives.

Small Groups and other ministries that encourage folks to get involved.

Drug abuse/recovery
Marriage/family issues
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Maintenance Manager

Lay Supply Pastor
Outside Sales
Home Construction

Preaching
Teaching
I’m a pretty good Carpenter

Impact Sales
Process Improvement

My Wife
Discernment

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Challenger

People 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

When my wife and I started dating 12 years ago I knew that church was going to be part of the plan. As time went on I started to enjoy the worship and ministries of the church. I found Christ for myself and eventually started to grow with the help of my Pastor, Walk to Emmaus and a great many other people working in my life.

Cape Coral First United Methodist
4008 Coronado PKWY
Cape Coral FL 33914
11 years
Served as Chair of Board of Trustee
Staff Parish Relations
Lay Rep to the Annual Conference
Lay Coordinator for Grow Ministry
Lay Coordinator for Invite Ministry
Founded and Lead the Yellow Team Welcome Ministry
Led several Small Groups (Adult and Young Adult)

Friendship UMC
Punta Gorda FL
Served as Lay Supply Pastor for 1 year (07/2016-06/2017)

Serving as a Pastor has changed the way that I approach life in so many ways. I is a good reminder to always try to be more open and caring to the people I come in contact with.

Walk to Emmaus. Attending and then serving multiple times. It still has an amazing impact to be part of the weekend.

Watching/Helping my 27 year old son find sobriety. He is 4 1/2 years clean from an addiction to opiates and I have been amazed by his strength and ability to persevere. God has been good.

Loss. I have lost, to trauma and disease a great number of people close me. These experiences have given me a unique insight and the ability to help folks get through their loss and pain.

My own addictions and the addictions of people close to me have allowed me to be available to people suffering in similar ways.

Divorce and separation from my child. This makes me work very hard at keeping my family together. It also allows me an opportunity to speak truth into the lives of other men about the importance of family.

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. To serve in the church in a much larger way. Preaching and teaching.

4. Serve the marginalized communities and share God through my actions and avialability.

5. Share the love and grace of God with folks that just don’t alway feel loved. Lead a Men’s Small Group or a mixed Small Group with my wife.