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

Thank you Kristopher Moore 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%

53%

68%

53%

53%

87%

56%

46%

71%

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 have always been known to carry strong convictions and also be ready to communicate those convictions. Through life-changing events, my method and ability to communicate these convictions has changed and softened.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love teaching. I love the challenge of taking difficult concepts and working to break them into easier bits. I love the discussion and the growth that I hope follows.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
While I have had a heart for the wrongfully-convicted and those with special needs, it was not until I suffered my own accident that I have developed a deeper compassion and understanding of how deep despair can reach and the need for friends to stand by and hold the flashlight in the darkness.

[H]eart

1. I love to work on building my farm and to communicate with people about it. I love the idea that I can contribute to my community by the products of my own hands.

2. I love to read and think and communicate my passions through writing.

3. I love to be creative and create new things by working in my shop.

I work best with adults or at least college age and above. I like to work most with people who have an openness because of something in their life.

Poverty/hunger
Disabilities
Other – injustice

[A]bilities

I am starting a farm and beginning work at MSU to start a local Innocence Project

I was an attorney where I practice civil rights, personal injury, and civil defense, as well as performed government lobbyist work. Before this I went to preaching school and preached and also worked in a factory.

I am a good writer.

based on Yancey’s “The Jesus I never Knew” and the book of Revelation. There were probably some other topics. I taught adult classes on Joseph.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

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

I was 21 years old and had recently ended a relationship. I had previously been agnostic. I read the Bible on my own and decided it was the truth so I called a preacher I had once come into contact with and asked him to baptize me. Then I immediately wanted to become a preacher.

Tahoka church of Christ (Tahoka TX), young minister, 2 years

Preaching at various churches throughout Texas and New Mexico, 5 years

Collin County church of Christ, teacher-1 year; Parkway Drive church of Christ (Lubbock), teacher and preached occasionally – 3 years

Becoming a Father

Working with Exonerees, the wrongfully-convicted

Preaching at a church in Cuero, Texas, where there was a good response and the church’s regular minister was very supportive of me

suffering a brain injury and losing my job, house, reputation, and abilities

my parents divorce

my mother’s struggle with cancer, her in ability to find affordable treatment and safety net for her in a bad time, and ultimately her death from cancer

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. Get my farm running then expand it to create ability to produce extra for a local food pantry

4. write books about my experience with the Exonerees, my experience with brain injury, and a devotional for brain injured people

5. write and teach about the importance of LOVE of everyone and try to convince more people to stop dividing themselves, community