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

Thank you Jan Rogers 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%

75%

71%

78%

59%

93%

78%

40%

100%

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 revealed to me many years ago. It is my first passion. It manifests in my teaching and my writing.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
God has enabled me to use this gift on occasion. Often those with the spiritual gift of teaching also have a gift of prophecy.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is something I feel humbly and gratefully honored to be able to do.

[H]eart

1. Teaching and writing are two of my passions. Studying God’s Word.

2. I do love to invite guests to my home. Gracious hospitality is important to me.

3. Mentoring/discipleship.

My first love is for other women. Love leading groups of ladies in serious Bible Study. Next would probably be teens.

Things that excite me in churches: Women’s ministry. Love to be involved in that. Extremely dislike church politics and cliques. Lack of organization is biggest concern. Like to see things done decently and in order.

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Alcoholism
Educational

[A]bilities

Author, homemaker, Bible Study teacher; author

Business administration, bookkeeping, marketing, staff training. Music: leading worship and teaching others.

Administration, bookkeeping, teaching, writing, hospitality, sewing and crafts, gardening.

Not all but most books of the Bible. I have also been main speaker at several women’s events.

Love for others and passion for accuracy of God’s Word.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Leader

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

Made a profession of faith in 1989. Led to the Lord by a wonderful friend.

Calvary Chapel Santa Maria, Santa Maria, CA…B.S. teacher, servant.

Calvary Chapel Greeneville, TN: Head of Women’s Ministry, helped with mentoring/counseling women, Women’s B.S. leader; bookkeeping

Frist Baptist Church, Greeneville, TN: Sunday School Teacher. Harris Memorial FWB Church, Greeneville, TN: Bible Study leader, EFT team member.

Probably the biggest one was getting involved with Precept Ministries and learning how to study the Bible inductively. How I realized I have a gift of teaching.

When I first became a Christian I was in a Bible study and we had a lesson on forgiveness. Forgiving myself and my husband for the abortion I had in 1975 was a turning point in my life.

My first mission trip to Mexico helped me to see with compassion and opened my eyes to so many things. Affected me profoundly. Then, there was a trip to Israel a year ago that changed my heart and my understanding of the Bible for a lifetime.

Drug and alcohol abuse and abortion. Learning that my birth mom was raped and that was how I was conceived…all of which made me stronger and gave me such a heart for folks in bondage to those things. Also gave me opportunity to share my testimony with others struggling in same way.

Have been very hurt by a church. Deeply hurt. However, have learned a lot from that.

My husband’s bone marrow stem cell transplant was very difficult to go through with him but through that my relationship with and understanding of God reached a new and much more intimate level.

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. Would love to do more mission trips; love to be involved in sharing the gospel overseas.

4. I would have a home for unwed mothers in my backyard; a place where they could also be discipled and mentored and taught skills.

5. I would like my home to be used as a small retreat center for missionaries; folks who travel sharing the gospel. Wouldn’t be in a position to do that for probably 4-5 years.