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

Thank you Lucas Sayle 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):

65%

56%

50%

25%

34%

56%

59%

31%

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 have a passion for sharing ideas and concepts I learn as I grow in my personal relationship with Christ. Also like to break thoughts down and dig into the rut of them to helps myself and others grow.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This one tends to be more natural to me. I manage a group of people at work. Also like to think problems and solutions out as a group and help lead the process forward.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I truly believe that Teaching and Pastoring are closely related. If using the Granville Sharp Rule in Eph 4:11 Pastor Teacher are one in the same. However I do still believe in the true 5 fold ministry. As in Teaching I desire to share the word with a group to help move them along in their walk. To guide and protect these people.

[H]eart

1. Nothing brings me more joy in life than my family.

2. The outdoors. Hunting, fishing, camping etc. Sharing this beautiful creation with others.

3. Coaching – 3 Sports coach for sons teams. Baseball, Football and Wrestling. Love spending time with these kids. Teaching finer points to sportsmanship and watching it click and seeing their excitement.

Preteen and teenagers are where I have spent most my time working with and I have enjoyed this tremendously. Working with adults is still new for me, however I am finding a passion there as well.

JR/SR High Ministry – Excite
Audio/Visual/Graphic – Excite and Concern
Leadership

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Marriage/family issues
Other – Depression

[A]bilities

Marketing – Product Data Manager – Work with SQL databases, Industry standards and customers. Also assist in functionality of our websites.

Tech Service, Telecommunications, Sales, Industrial Insulation, Maintenance

Many things. My most favorite was a youth retreat focusing on Marvel Superheros and the message within the movies. Series was called Marvelous Messages from Comics. For example Capetian America – Appearance is Nothing, Character Counts

Would be a Bible that my mom passed down to me. It was my Great Grandmother’s. This is only valuable to me, but I believe these types of things hold much more than anything I can buy.

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Routine

Your Primary was ‘The Beaver’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Lion’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

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

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

[E]xperience

While a very depressed teenager, a friend and co-worker invited me to youth group. Shortly after attending I had the last of my failed suicide attempts. When I woke from that, I knew there was more to life. Continuing to go to youth group i realized what I had been missing. On my bedroom floor one night after service, I cried out to God.

Freedom Christian Fellowship, Adrian, MI 2000 – 2013 – Many positions Janitorial, Audio/Visual Tech, Praise Team, Youth Leader, Jr High Teach, Elementary Teacher, Bus Ministry

Cornerstone Community Church, Adrian, MI 2014 – 2016 – I was part of this new Church Plant and help get it moving. Was also inveigled in Youth Ministries and would teach one service a month in the Adult Wed night class.

Redemption Outreach Center Church of God, Adrian, MI 2016 – 2017 – Headed up the audio/visual group and ran JR High Ministry. Also was a Youth Leader. Helped with the transition of the Name and new vision of the church.

Timothy Training Program. A former Pastor had a group of young men that he mentored closely. Called it TTP. This was to train young men on how to work in ministry, how to be good husbands and fathers.

Getting married and becoming one. Through some of life’s biggest struggles, I couldn’t imagine walking this path with anyone else.

Becoming a father. I never truly understood the gift God gave us of His son, until I had one of my own.

Adultery from the Sr Pastors. This has given me passion to those who have worked and severed under leadership where this has happened. These situations have cause many to stray or struggle with direction.

Deceit. To many times deceit has crept into ministry. Seems as if people are out for their own agenda or political standings. I have seen the affects of this, causing a point in me to always be authentic.

Suicide/Depression – I had struggled hard with this during my teenage years. Came to a point that I hated everyone and everything.

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. Using technology to continue to spread His word.

4. Bring more youth to Christ. i.e. Youth Conventions

5. Serving the community. See a need Fill a need.