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

Thank you Mario Alexander Kasih 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:

71%

62%

81%

71%

50%

56%

62%

50%

87%

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:
Administration is there for growing the vines. At the same time, to evaluate ourselves and the vines. It’s necessary.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
The goal of my life is to see His gospel clearly displayed, thru His ways and means, into me, family, His people, surrounding community, and the peoples.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I grew up spiritually in 1-2-1 setting. Lots of honesty, personal disclosure of past sins and current habitual sins, and accountability to obey and pursue real change. In this context, both exhortation and encouragement is vital.

[H]eart

1. Transformative discipleship. When someone that I disciple gets the gospel in their lives, and saw a breakthrough that glorifies and honors God.

2. Cherishing my wife.

3. See people, friends, strangers, brothers and sisters finally pray and worship God in Christ, with sincere repentance and honesty, joining with them or inviting them to do so.

People with rough backgrounds, but with candor and honesty. Around the same age.

Connecting God’s called people to His Commission and the world’s needs.

Marriage/family issues
Spiritual laziness
Other – Clarity and honesty in church life

[A]bilities

Social worker

Deacon

Bilingual (English/Indonesian), teaching literacy, connecting people/networking

Teaching literacy, peace-making values, disciple-making principles, wholeness prayer, discovery bible studies for discipleship and prayer walking practices

ABIDING IN CHRIST.

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Routine

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

Golden Retriever- Good at making friends. Very loyal. Retriever personalities do not like big changes. They look for security. Can be very sensitive. Very caring. Has deep relationships, but usually only a couple of close friends. Wants to be loved by everyone. Looks for appreciation. Works best in a limited situation with a steady work pattern.

Strength: Accommodating, calm, affirming
Weakness: Indecisive, indifferent, unable to express emotional, too soft on other people
Limitation: Seeing the need to be more assertive, holding others accountable

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

Jesus drew me in during campus years, thru an old lady who prayed for me in Jesus’ name. Then a personal revival when I was confronted of my lust and pride at the same time, at the end of my uni years. As Gospel broke thru more deeply, I confess specifically of my sins, and God’s joy flow, restoring my perspectives on self, family members and His Kingdom work in His world.

ICC Melbourne, Melbourne, Deacon, 2013-2014.

Urban Ministry in Jakarta, Indonesia, 2014-current

A breakthrough concerning honest relationship with God in prayer, trading my inner struggles and sorrows for His joys, during my depression years. It was one of the deepest joys in my life.

A moment of special abiding experience from gathered peoples across ethnicities and languages, coming in worship and prayer in the prayer room.

Meeting my wife-to-be, after a difficult 4-month trial for my family. A friend encouraged me to ask God for life-partner. I was unwilling, knowing my idolatrous tendencies. But as I devote myself to Him first, I learn what Matthew 6:33 means: He provides what we need, when we seek Him first and foremost. His provision and appointment for a wife to me is a pure gift, total grace. I cherish her presence, and I’m still learning to love with no selfish expectations, but God’s intention in Christ for us. It’s a deep joy to walk with God alongside my dear wife.

My friend who said to me with candor: “I’m looking at a friend and brother, not a counsellor. I’m not your client. I’m your sister in Christ.” It was a sharp word that I need. It reinforces in me the need for authenticity, and my idolatrous tendency for ministry, and how I want to be looked upon, recognized, more highly than who I really am before God.

Counselling and walking alongside an elderly lady, as a deacon, and I realized that I have crossed boundaries (by often being in the room with her, with no other person). I was rebuked and learned a lot about boundaries in ministry and relationship.

I had a depression bout twice. Once when the father of my date cut the relationship. Another is when I struggled internally to have pure motives during my first year as a social worker. During those days, the promise of strength in weakness become precious to me. Also, how God deal with my idolatrous desires patiently yet firmly shaped me. God’s gospel become a constant need, I cannot live without Him every single moment, as if I would fall in the next 5 minutes if it were not for Him. It was painfully sweet.

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. Grow and equip others in abiding, through an honest, simple, small community that abides and moves with Jesus

4. Strive in abiding and move with urgency towards a movement of God in the city of Jakarta, where disciples making disciples, with collaboration in prayer first and foremost, then in sharing of resources as like a common resource (Acts 2)

5. Finish well, by being obedient to His move, readying our family to go & leave behind past fruits-successes whenever He moves