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

Thank you Lee Taylor 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):

37%

96%

71%

65%

53%

46%

34%

53%

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 ache for the lost and I am frustrated with the complacent…we’re talking about the God of the universe! What is there to be complacent about?

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I was a teacher for 15 years, so I suppose it comes naturally at this point. Once a teacher, always a teacher.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love words, vocabulary and well crafted sentences. I enjoy writing and using words wisely. I am careful and selective with my words, written or spoken.

[H]eart

1. Talking about Jesus, the Bible and our church.

2. Make art.

3. Be outside…watching birds, tending to my plants, feeling the sun, watching the breeze in the trees.

I don’t know.

Reaching out into the community to show people the love of Christ.

Spiritual laziness
Health/fitness
Other – Personal responsibility

[A]bilities

Co-owner of our art gallery/small business. Multiple responsibilities: web designer, online shop photography, listing inventory, display designer

Teaching

Art. Communication. Organization. Graphic design. Cooking/baking.

Just art related.

Enthusiasm/passion.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Challenger

People Driven

Leader

Solo

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 don’t hardly remember a time when I wasn’t a Christian. I have been keenly aware of the awesomeness of God and his love all my life. Jesus has had His hand on me the entire time, and while I knew it, felt it and relied on it; however,only in the past 10 yrs have I opened my hands fully to Him in surrender.

Youth ministry support, Palm Bay Baptist, Palm Bay FL (now called Life Point Church) 2009 – 2010 approx.

Food ministry team, Faith Church, Brooksville FL 2017-19

Marrying Russ Taylor and being loved by him unconditionally.

Attending Tony Evans’ church in college, back in the 80s. As his ministry began to grow so did my understanding of the Bible and my faith in the Lord! I owe a great deal to his ministry.

Seeing the Lord do mind-blowing, jaw dropping mini-miracles in my life (repeatedly!) that I cannot explain except that I know what I know what I know. It was God.

Cleaning houses all day and offices at night to make ends meet when Russ and I had no income.

10 years of my watching dad’s decline due to Alzheimer’s and being bedside at his death.

Care-taking for my mom during her battle with pancreatic cancer and being bedside with her when she died.

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. It would be a dream if our gallery made enough money to support us financially. It is our “mission field” to speak to people about Jesus and I so enjoy all the opportunities it provides for meeting people and talking to them about their faith….or lack of it.

4. to volunteer for Samaritan’s purse and be a prayer warrior on their tours, work at the shoebox distribution center, or clean up crew during disasters

5. I’d have a huge garden and learn to grow crops and can vegetables to share in the community.