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

Thank you Samuel T Varghese 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:

84%

90%

78%

84%

71%

75%

71%

62%

90%

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:
The only thing I am passionate about is Jesus. Most of the things I am asked to do at church , I am actually not passionate about but because it’s about Jesus , I do them with to the best of my ability mostly.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is my God given gift. I love to express the contents that I worked on myself rather than what I heard from someone or read somewhere.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I generally have a tendency to make things simpler for others mainly to improve the effectiveness of what is at hand. And since administration is more about effective implementation it draws my attention.

[H]eart

1. Teaching and training

2. Singing songs of intimate worship and personal time with God

3. Making things simpler through creative solutions

Generally people who are older than I and those who are emotional and sensitive to others needs.

Worship leading and word sharing to help people deal with personal challenges.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

Lecturer

Singing, counselling and Reasoning

Human resources, psychology, conflict management and Spiritual growth.

My relationship with God.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Retriever’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Otter’, 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

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

When I truly started to see how patient God was with me and all my weaknesses, His unchanging love is what called me to follow Him. I was completely messed up from my childhood but the realization that He wasn’t ready to give up on me challenged everything I was taught about Him. And my journey to know Him intimately began.

Worship help (Main church and kids church)
Prayer group coach

Bethel AG, Herbal, Bangalore , Karnataka

Served 8 year and continuing.

A friend who is almost 16 years older than I, who God used to heal my hurts and wounds. Talking to him and spending time with his is one of the best experiences still.

How out of nowhere people suddenly started realizing my potential that I was never appreciated for in my entire life. This happened through a series of events within just 2 months time.

Acceptance from my Dad. He always loved me but he never appreciated my personality and constantly asked me to change and compare me with my siblings.

I have always failed miserably in the areas that I wanted to excel. After a point of time I almost gave up. But God kept me bringing to the same scenarios (teaching and singing) and taught me how to depend on Him for strength ?And that I could also be a help to others going through difficult times.

Issues with my Mom. She is a difficult person to be around most of the time as she had a hard time growing up in a very traditional family and nobody cared how she felt. That same she is now doing to others. But I have learnt now to be patient with her , listen to her in trying to understand what she really wants to say and love her for who she is instead of how she behaves.

Most of my life I have suffered depression and had no clue how to get out. But God just kept me safe through all the suicide attempts and helped me through the pain of fear, insecurities and anxiety. Through those painful moments I was made a more compassionate and considerate person.

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. Finding more ways to share Gods love.

4. Teaching and training on leadership

5. Worshipping through singing.