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

Thank you Stephen Lomax 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):

75%

53%

87%

62%

81%

53%

53%

71%

68%

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 feel drawn to and feel great fulfilment when I can see positive results in this area. I am also sought out for this by people who know me.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
The deep compassion I have always felt for those in need has been in me for my entire life. I feel great fulfilment when I am able to ease the suffering of others. I find myself desiring to always, and being sought to, pray for those in need.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I have been rated “high performing” as a professional manager and project manager for more than 40 years. I have consistently received positive feedback from any group that I have led, in professional and church or other volunteer settings

[H]eart

1. Encouraging the disouraged or ill people.

2. Praying in any form, but especailly intercessory, including for the unborn and those cconsidering abortion.

3. Singing.

Deeply faithful, committed, intelligent middle aged or older Christians, and men around my age or older the very most.

Prayer Ministries. Visitation and encouragement in hospitals or other circumstances. Worship team. Small group leadership. Pro-life ministries. Perhaps Pro-life Bible study leadership (ala a First Choice equivalent in NC).

Abortion/sanctity of Life
Drug abuse/recovery
Abuse/violence

[A]bilities

Sr. Project Manager

Manager of teams, call centers, prayer line worker, recovery small group leader, Elder, Deacon for Outreach, Sining

Encouraging others. Listening. Singing. Facilitating. Public speaking.

Recovery. Project Management.

Compassion.

[P]ersonality

50-50 Extrovert/Reserved

Low Risk

Peace Maker

People Driven

Leader

Team

Routine

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

I was at my bottom, in an abusive alcoloism relationship with my wife. Having fbeen raised in a Reformed Church, Jesus brought to mind the verse in Matthew that commands that we seek first the kingdome of God. I gave my life to Jesus then and he has given me new life and done amazing things in me and in my life since then.

Choir, Youth Sunday School teacher, Deacon and Comitte Chairman at the First Reformed Church, Glenville, NY.

Choir, Youth Sunday School teacher and Personnel Committee at United Presbyterinan Church, Flanders, NJ

Special Needs Sunday School teacher, Worship team, Prayer and Encouragement team, Billy Graham Prayer Line, and Elder at Bethlehem/Grace Church on the Mount, Randolph, NJ.
Recovery Group leader, Mendham Hills Community Church, Chester, NJ.

Jesus telling me “you were made for this”, when I stood at my daughter’s side in the NYU Medical Center Intensive Care Recovery room.

Being a youth group member at church growing up, under the leadership of Helen Van Ess, and raised by loving parents at the same time.

Being a Recovery Group leader and Al-Anon member.

Being the husband of an abusive alcoholic.

Being the father of a daughter who was born with Spina Bifida and underwent two serious surgeries.

Growing up in a house with often stern parents who used pretty severe punishment from a young age. I (and most if not all of my 7 brothers and sisters) have had to deal with serious depression and anxiety for most of my life.

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. Counsel and encourage others with difficult lives (esp. alcoholism impacted) to live Godly, passionate and triumphant lives..

4. To make a great impact on protecting the lives of the unborn and doing focus #3 for others who have had an abortion.

5. Singing regularly in a church setting to glorify God and point others to Him.