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

Thank you Riely C. Brande 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:

75%

71%

84%

87%

40%

81%

93%

15%

96%

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 to dig into the word, learn from sermons both in person and online, and God has placed in me a strong desire to see others learn more truth about the Lord and apply it to their lives.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Furthermore, I am not content with the Gospel merely changing my life. I have an extremely strong desire to play an active role in the lives of those I am given the opportunity to disciple.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
This is a desire I need to daily ask the Lord to renew in me. Nothing I have in this earth is my own. I have been given a wonder financial situation by both family and a military Academy for college, and it would be unjust for me to not pour it out back to the Lord who gave it.

[H]eart

1. I love to shepherd young people, especially young men navigating the growth, relationships, and challenges of college years. Perhaps someday the Lord might lead me and my future wife to start a campus ministry at an unreached college, that is my request.

2. I also feel very passionately that youth groups and college ministries should be a place where the grace and message of Christ meet the love and challenges of discipline, reproof, and instruction.

3. I am open to long-term overseas missions work. I really like gardening and growing plants, and I desire to eventually spend relax time farming.

College age guys, and younger guys.

The sanctity of marriage and the church dating like the world.

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Spiritual laziness

[A]bilities

I am a young officer in the Coast Guard.

Working on the student staff of a campus ministry at the Academy.

I can relate to many types of people. I am easy to talk with and willing to both encourage and lovingly rebuke.

Relationships & the problem of sex before marriage.

Being able to befriend and encourage many different people with relative ease, and use the relationship to encourage, teach, or rebuke.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

50-50 High/Low Risk

50-50 Peace Maker/Challenger

People Driven

Leader

Team

50-50 Routine/Variety

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

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

[E]xperience

After being justified by a small understanding of Christ around age 8, the Lord used the church body my family joined from 8th grade through High School, followed by a college ministry, to sanctify me and show me more sin in my life which HE proceeded to eliminate by grace, and continues to.

I served in the AWANAS ministry as a teacher and games leader at FBCFH in Fountain Hills, AZ for 3 years in high school. I also served on the grounds grew during this time.

I served on the leadership team at Officer’s Christian Fellowship, which was in a campus ministry at the Academy I attended college.

I have had the opportunity to organize some international missions for the OCF college ministry as well as take part in some street evangelism.

The Lord showed me what a true family or Koinonia of believers looked like through the church my family attended when I was in high school.

Worshiping the Lord with believers in Haiti on mission, seeing how big and beautiful God’s true church is and how beautiful the song that raises up to him every Sunday morning struck me with the understand that we are a part of a global Body of Christ.

I have seen some churches filled with believers who each felt a personal responsibility to make Christ known in their community, and I see so many churches “asleep in the light.” The Church’s members are the vast brigade of soldiers for Christ to get work done, they must be empowered and challenged to do so!

During my college years, the Lord allowed a sinful relationship with a girl which had lasted 6 years to fall apart. It showed me the importance of pursuing Christ first, leading to pursuing a believer to marry, and maintaining purity in the relationship in the midst of this wicked generation.

I’ve known too many two-faced “Christians” who do not feel “called” to give their life for the Gospel of Christ, let alone live a life which reflects Him outside of church. I was one. I have seen what no church discipline and freely handed out membership can do to a group of believers. I desire to attend and support a church where rebuking and lovingly correcting and encouraging one another is part of the culture.

In regards to praising Jesus through music, I have seen and have been guilty of worshiping the music over the Creator. I feel strongly about praying for and reminding others of this truth when praising the Lord in song.

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. To share the Gospel with every individual in my neighborhood and encourage/equip others in church to do the same.

4. To start a campus ministry at an unreached campus.

5. To have a large family and live as an example for life in Christ’s freedom with it.