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

Thank you Jennifer Story 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:

59%

62%

78%

50%

21%

96%

96%

31%

96%

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:
Its like I can speak to how God’s Word and situations are going to work out in the lives of those around me.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Once I gathered a group to reach out and began building a church. One on one discipleship has been so fruitful and rewarding. I’ve seen those under me, surpass me.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love watching the expression on faces when an inquisitive look becomes a light bulb moment specifically when it comes to God’s Word.

[H]eart

1. Discipleship

2. Missions

3. Multiple forms of creativity

Willing and available college and international students.

Church Health – we need to engage the 18-30 year olds!
– Every church should have a licensed counselor/recovery groups available. There is too much mental trauma that obviously isn’t being worked out in peoples lives from the pulpit at the current growing rate.
– Stop preaching Calvinism, Preach Christ! We shouldn’t be sitting around talking theology at the bar and telling everyone “I’m a Calvinist.” We should be engaging the lost with innovative ways and telling them “I’m a Christian!”
– We’ve got to find a better way to represent ourselves across the board. “Contemporary” “Relevant” “Organic” are the churches equivalent to the world’s buzz words “Organic” “Homeopathic” “Paleo.”
I’ll stop there…

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Drug abuse/recovery
Other – Spiritual Multiplication

[A]bilities

Campus Missionary

Basic Elementary Music teacher, reviewing and filing blue prints, wait staff, other service type jobs.

I teach dance lessons. I love to sing and dance/perform. I like to do make up, make costumes, and plan for special occasions.

Raising financial support
Reaching out to the unchurched
Knowing and Being Known by God and others.

I don’t seem to fit any specific mold.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

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 Beaver’, 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

Beaver- Organized. Beavers think that there is a right way to do everything and they want to do it exactly that way. Beaver personalities are very creative. They desire to solve everything. Desire to take their time and do it right. Beavers do not like sudden changes. They need reassurance.

Strength: High standards, order, respect
Weakness: Unrealistic expectations of self & others, too perfect.
Limitation: Seeing the optimistic side of things, expressing flexibility

[E]xperience

Grew up in Church. It became real for me in middle school. I surrendered to mission in HS. It became serious for me in college. Looking now back across my life and family dynamics I can see God saved me from many things. Now that I’m older I can see sin in my life and feel broken by my sin. I did not experience that in my childhood. I think God saved me for a restorative type of ministry.

Volunteer positions only with children, youth, college, and young adult.

God let me see a vision for my life in middle school that included me going to college, but in order to do that I had to do everything in order and on time throughout high school to get the scholarship and placements necessary. With God’s help and by his grace, I did. I graduated and have no college debt.

Although this vision included mission work it was at college when I was introduced to discipleship through looking at the life of Christ and his disciples and I think this specific thing “changed” the course of my life. I have often wondered if my going to college was really the one thing God was trying to get me to so that personal discipleship would introduced rather than what I thought was studying architecture to use in mission work…in China!

Being married and having children have honestly not all been positive, but the life lessons are definitely a huge part of who I am today.

New pastor came in, our life group who were also among our church leadership, and the housing crisis brought our life to a screeching halt the day we were asked to leave the youth pastor position. It was bad. They lied to the church. We lost our home. We moved in with parents, across states, and into a menial job. We lost the position we were working towards through a mission organization because of the messiness with that church. Those are the highlights. I can sympathize with those who “had a bad experience at church.”

Once the doors for ministry opened up again we were asked to start a campus ministry, but would need to raise 100% support. That part was good. Finding the nerve to face church people week after week asking for support while answering the questions of how God got us to this point was though just as we were discovering some major medical issues. If we can raise and meet our financial goal then anyone can.

Listing the medical issues is easier than telling the story. Open heart surgery, pacemaker, prescription drug reactions and abuse, stokes, seizures, while the loss of my brother to cancer and my dad soon after basically giving up on life. Its been absolutely chaotic. Don’t give me patronizing and churchy lines…this I can solidly relate to when I meet people in their own chaos.

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. write a book

4. live and minister in Asia

5. visit every corner of the world seeing how God is at work