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

Thank you Josh Rogers 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):

84%

43%

50%

71%

25%

65%

40%

15%

65%

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 am constantly looking for how to improve things. Understanding how processes can be more efficient, repeatable, and predictable.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am very giving of my “things” (money, possessions, etc.) I don’t know mind giving them to others to use and have if they are in need.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Speaking truth comes very easy but understanding how others will hear that is usually a secondary or non-existent concern.

[H]eart

1. Make things better! Learning and growing! I think there are always opportunities to improve and I enjoy finding them and implementing them.

2. Leading others in worship.

3. Getting outside into God’s creation and being active: hiking, biking, running, etc.

Young professionals

(1) Helping people understand God through worship; (2) helping people connect their faith and work (understanding work as worship)

Marriage/family issues
Financial stewardship
At-risk children
Other – Understanding Work as Worship

[A]bilities

Vice President of Operations for a Financial Services organization

Organizational and leadership development and expertise in the areas of business planning & execution, analytics, strategy, operations, and change management

Worship Leader, Instrumentalist (Guitar) & Vocalist, Organizational Development, Leadership Development, Change Management, Business Planning & Execution, Analytics and Metrics, Strategy and Operations, Succession Planning, Talent Acquisition and Retention, Performance Development/Management.

Worship Leading, Effective Interviewing, Change Management

Evaluating situations and quickly develop plans of action that will lead to a desired result

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

Challenger

50-50 People/Project Driven

Leader

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

While growing up in a Christian home , I remember accepting Christ at a young age. That said, I think that had more to do with what was expected than a “true understanding fo the calling Christ calls us as believers. That said, I remember the Lord really tugging on my heart at the age of 8 when I was at summer camp and believe that is when I accepted Christ. But since then I’ve had a life long journey of continuing to “learn” what it means to be a Christian. It is an active pursuit not a singular event.

– Hershey Evangelical Free Church (Hershey, PA) – Youth Intern 1 year
– Cedarville University (Cedarville, OH) – Worship Leader 4 years
– Far Hills Community Church (Dayton, OH) – Worship Leader 3 years
– Apex Community Church (Dayton, OH) – Worship Leader 4 years
– Apex Community Church (Dayton, OH) – House Church Leader 2 years
– Apex Community Church (Dayton, OH) – Elder 2 years
– Harvest Bible Chapel (now Brave Church) (Denver, CO) – Worship Team/Worship Leader 2 years
– The Rock Community Church (Denver, CO) – Worship Team Member 2.5 years

Between my junior and senior year of high school I went on a 3 month missions trip to Brazil with 10 other kids I had never met. It was an incredible time that taught me a lot about the world that God has created, my faith and what that looks like in the context of another culture different from mine.

Being part of a “house church” network in Dayton, OH taught me about what “true community” means. Not something that is programmed that pushes “like” people together but rather a true cross-section of believers that had two things in common: (1) we lived within a 2-mile radius of one-another (2) had a desire to grow in our relationships with Christ. This allowed us to have impact in our neighborhood because we all lived together, ate together, saw one another throughout our days in almost everything we did.

Adopting my son was another area that was incredibly formative. It gave me a whole new perspective when the Bible says that we are, “adopted as sons and daughters.” As imperfect as my heart is and however prone to sin, I know how much I love my son, who is not genetically mine. I know the sacrifices I’ve made and would make to care for him. I also know this does not even come close to how my God thinks of me. WOW!

The divorce of my parents when I was 15 years old left me feeling incredibly alone. I made some really bad choices about what was important and how I was going to fill the hole that was left in my heart. But God in his infinite grace surrounded me with a lot of people who supported me, loved me, and prayed faithfully for me. In time, God tore through a lot of walls of pain I had built and ultimately grew me closer to him.

A horrific split of a church when my wife and I were first married that revealed the shear hideousness of the bride of Christ. A situation that pushed us to the absolute edge of the cliff of giving up on her. But again just when I needed it God surrounded me with people and used the experience to remind me that we are all imperfect. We all fall short. And he put us in a church family where we could begin to understand what “true community” was all about. I firmly believe this would not have been possible if we had first not been stripped of our preconceived notions.

When I was 13 years old I was in a horrific car accident and almost died. This experience taught me a lot about the brevity and fragility of life. As I’ve grown older it has also

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. helping every young professional understand work as worship

4. eliminate the need for Adoption

5. be in a position to lead worship more frequently