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

Thank you Andy Frazier 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:

81%

75%

62%

59%

50%

78%

81%

53%

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:
Not only do I have a burden to teach God’s Word, but I have been given many opportunities to do so over the years. As I teach, I often get positive feedback, and I love to see Christians grow as they learn.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I love to see things run effectively and efficiently. It is a great joy to see Christians serving in the right place, and for churches to operated smoothly.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
The longing for disciples to make disciples drives me to lead and feed the flock to which God has called me. Seeing people come to know Christ, grow up and be equipped, and then go out to reach others is satisfying. This isn’t easy work, but it is worthwhile.

[H]eart

1. I love to teach God’s Word in a way that people understand it and apply it to their lives.

2. I love to equip and train leaders and disciple makers.

3. I love to network with other leaders and encourage them.

I enjoy working with men who can become spiritual leaders in their home, work, church, and communities.

I get most excited about growing and passionate disciples who multiply through intentional disciple making efforts.

Marriage/family issues
Spiritual laziness
Policy/politics

[A]bilities

I am bivocational, serving as a pastor and self-employed farrier

Construction, Administration, Parachurch/Nonprofit

I love to work with my hands to fix and make things

I have taught on pretty much every church related topic, but have a focused passion on disciple making

I feel God blesses my efforts in teaching

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

High Risk

Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Team

Variety

Your Primary was ‘The Lion’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Beaver’, 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

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

I came to Christ at the age of 8, when I realized I was a sinner and Christ was my only hope for salvation. After months of contemplating this decision, I prayed to receive Jesus in my cousin’s treehouse after we discussed what I knew needed to be done.

Associate Pastor/ Student Minister – FBC Carbon Hill 1999-2002

Pastor, Associational Director of Missions, Church Planter – Various Churches 2003-2015

Lead Pastor – Grace Baptist Church (revitalization) 2015-Present

God has blessed me tremendously with a loving and supportive wife and three wonderful sons. Marriage and fatherhood have taught me a great deal about the love Jesus has for His Church and the love God has for His children.

Through a failed church plant, God taught me much about leader development, fund raising, and the need for encouragement/accountability.

By God’s grace, He answered my long-time prayer for networking and fellowship with like-minded disciple making pastors over the past 3 years.

At the age of 14, my parents divorced. This forced me to question lots of things and ultimately drove me to depend on God by faith more than ever.

God has blessed me over the years with opportunities to grow and trust Him through church conflict. These opportunities caused me to study Scripture and proper procedures on church discipline, reconciliation, and stewardship.

Through many failed attempts to be mentored by an established church leader, God gave me a burden to encourage discouraged ministers, disciple Christians, develop leaders, and be sensitive to pastors without friends in ministry.

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 would like to pastor a church that develops disciple makers and assists ministers in growing and learning to lead disciple making ministries

4. I would like to assist in the efforts to equip and train pastors and church leaders in foreign contexts

5. I would like to write and speak on the subjects of bivocational ministry, disciple making, and church revitalization.