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

Thank you Matt Bruns 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):

43%

71%

40%

34%

21%

75%

43%

18%

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:
I love the Scriptures, and I like to study and understand context and etymology to bring light to what I am teaching in the text.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I am okay speaking the truth found in scripture, despite what others may want to believe or hear. I believe it’s more important to hear from God than ourselves.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I enjoy telling others about Jesus, pointing them towards Jesus, and am comfortable sharing that the good in my life comes from Jesus.

[H]eart

1. Teaching others about Jesus.

2. Spending time with my family, enjoying life together with them.

3. Cooking and sharing that with friends to let them know I care about them.

My peers, young people. I feel like people older than me don’t quite get me sometimes.

Families, helping parents be better at teaching their kids about Jesus, helping others overcome what’s limiting them (attitudes, misunderstandings, etc.), knowing ourselves to help us better know the God who made us.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Communications and Creative Arts Pastor

Student Ministry, Pastoral Ministry, Frying Chicken at the Chickfila

Public Speaking, Worship Leading, Graphic Design, Creative Writing

The Bible, Theology, Faith, Leadership, etc.

My ability to take complex truths and make them simple for others to understand.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Challenger

People Driven

50-50 Follower/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

When I was 14, at a youth conference, I was sitting with my youth group. These were mostly people I had known most of my life and I was doing all I could to feel accepted and that I belonged.

When the speaker gave the invitation, he asked everyone who wanted to accept Jesus to stand up. I looked around at the group I was with, none of them were standing up. And, I heard Jesus speak to me. He said, “Don’t worry about them. You belong to me.” So, I stood up and gave my life to Jesus.

Being given the opportunity to lead worship for my youth group as a teenager, and invested in by my two youth pastors, the latter took time with me in a small group weekly throughout my freshman year of college while I was attending the local community college.

Being trusted as the camp speaker with my youth ministry collective in Virginia. I regularly planned and helped shape the teaching/group element of our Summer and Winter camp experiences.

Being welcomed to Cornerstone for my preaching and teaching gift. I had not received much affirmation from the leadership at my previous church.

My parents’ divorce in 2017. Families need help to be committed to each other and need to see their relationships through a gospel-centered lens.

My whole life, I have felt like I don’t quite fit in. In school, this allowed me to bounce between social groups. I only started to feel comfortable in my skin when I felt close to God. This would lead to wanting to help my friends know Jesus through Younglife or my youth group.

It’s led me to want to try to help others feel accepted by Jesus, and that they have a place they can belong and be known by others accepted by Jesus.

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. I’d like to write a book and do some public speaking

4. I’d travel to see some of the ancient cities in the Scriptures to understand them and teach better.

5. I’d invest in parents/dads to be better fathers who love Jesus and show their kids how to love Jesus.