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

Thank you Lucille Dorsett 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:

68%

68%

62%

71%

65%

81%

71%

31%

59%

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:
This is something God gives for encouragement, exhortation and building up the Body. I am blessed God gave me the ability to operate in this gift.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Again, generosity is a gift, and it was passed down from the Lord through my mother, grandmother, etc.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love spending time with the Body and encouraging them in the Lord.

[H]eart

1. Praying for people and encouraging them to go deeper with the Lord and trust Him.

2. Speak publicly about my faith and His greatness and watch people “get it!”

3. Hearing from God by spending lots of time with Him in solitude and then sharing what He shows me.

Young people and the elderly. Missionaries and foreigners.

Missions, halfway houses, military members.

At-risk children
Health/fitness
Other – the world’s state and how we fit in it to bring light

[A]bilities

Caring for my elderly mother

Missionary, assistant to pastor, military officer, resource manager, veteran advocate

Ability to “read” and reach people & pull them closer to the Lord

Several: Prophecy, prayer, healing, intimacy with and dependency on the Lord, missions

Prophetic prayer for/teaching people

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

High Risk

Challenger

People Driven

Leader

Variety

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

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

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

I was in high school and a friend kept talking to me about what it meant to be a Christian (I was a church-goer of a faith not strong in relationship to Christ) and prayed with her a few months later to receive the Lord, then fell in love with Him and sought help to follow Him.

Turkey–missionary, Işık, Diriliş and Ankara Protestan Churches – 8 years

Denver – Bridgeway (member still, though not living there, pastor assistant – 1 1/2 years, involved in several ministries before leaving for mission field)

Denver – Church in the City (children’s pastor, small-group leader, Bible study leader, halfway-house ministry leader, nursing-home ministry leader)

Attending a young-women’s Bible study–really helped ground me when I was a new Believer

Helping with church plants–both in Denver and Turkey; I learned a lot about serving and how to help people grow, and helping children in their relationship with Christ

Being a small-group leader; I loved it and felt like I was able to help people pursue God and grow in their faith

Political infighting in the church; it was devastating to watch a church implode, having been there from the day it was inspired to even be a church until 14 years later when I finally left, preceded by many of my friends. I really had to wrestle with a lot of different things to grow beyond it and it really helped me understand people who have been hurt in the church and not to assume it’s always the person’s fault.

Pastors who had no heart for people, but were focused on making names for themselves. Also a very tough one, but I learned where to focus my energies in order to help the body grow and lower my expectations of pastors, recognizing they’re people just like me.

Getting ordained and licensed as a pastor, but having very little opportunity to walk out that role because of negative views of the church towards women leaders (and that’s all over the world!). Still working on that one!

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. Start a ministry with friends in the Middle East

4. Start/join a ministry for military people who need guidance

5. Find partners with whom to work/relationships