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

Thank you Stanford Terhune 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:

40%

78%

65%

84%

81%

62%

53%

90%

75%

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 like to help other people, visit people in nursing homes, sing in groups that visit nursing homes

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I really give careful thought to my church and missionary giving, and get excited about how the funds I give can help spread the gospel

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I feel compassion for people who are poor or are hurting, and work with the Total Living Center to try to direct people who have needs to the resources that can help them.

[H]eart

1. I like to go to Bible studies to dig deeper into what the Bible can reveal about how we should live. I would like to help seekers really understand why it is important for them to have faith in Christ.

2. I really like to help other people write well and help edit books and articles. I like to help with doing spreadsheets and organizing things

3. I love to play classical music on my piano, and listen to music. I would like to imagine that when I get to heaven I could help play heavenly pianos. I love reading history books, especially church history.

I like to work with older people, and middle-aged people (I am older). Although I have grandchildren, I’m not so keen in working with children.

I would like to see the church music program to be more diverse, moving beyond merely current worship choruses, having some small choirs, more traditional hymns. Most of all, I would like to encourage worship leaders to turn down the volume in services–we could hear just fine at a lower volume, and singing at high volume doesn’t make the music any more spiritual or worshipful.

Poverty/hunger
Financial stewardship
Other – Music in worship, or engaging in discussions on Bible content and Christian history

[A]bilities

Retired

Librarianship, teaching college students

I have led classical music appreciation groups, done watercolor painting, play classical piano

Love of meeting and greeting people, caring on discussions of Bible and Christian topics (I am not a teacher, but I a good support person in classes).

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

Low Risk

Peace Maker

50-50 People/Project Driven

50-50 Follower/Leader

Team

Routine

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

I moved to the Boston area, believing if I moved there, I could really be happy. I began going to the Tufts University chapel services (where I worked, not realizing it was unitarian/universalist, went to a young adult group suggested by the chaplain in Boston. I was uncomfortable with the sermons, which seemed to leave out discussing Jesus Christ; the young adult group became creepy with people who were not projecting an emotionally healthy atmosphere. One night in when I was going to the Boston young adult group, I couldn’t bring myself to go, so I turned back across the Common toward the Park Street Station to go home. As I looked across the street before I headed into the subway, I saw a college and career group advertised beginning at that moment at the Park Street Church, and evangelical bastion whose pastor was John Harold Ockenga. I decided to go in, and found myself among a joyous, welcoming group of young adults. I stayed, and a young Canadian Mennonite Harvard student (who later became my roommate in Cambridge) invited me to go the the 1st Presbyterian Church in Cambridge. Then later, one of the young staff at Tufts University Library invited me to go to the same church. I felt that maybe God might be telling me something, and since I was reaching out for something, I decided to go. The first Sunday, I went out with a group of young adults for lunch, and they witnessed to me. More than that, the pastor’s sermons seemed to be speaking to me in a very strong way, I became aware for the first time that Jesus Christ was very alive real person that I needed to get to know. With the help of these young adults, I was blown away, and I gave my life to Christ over the course of the next few weeks.

1st Presbyterian Church, Cambridge, Mass. , 1968-1973, church treasurer; I served as a staff advisor to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship group at Tufts University, 1969-1972; Manchester Baptist Church, Manchester, Mass., 1973-1982, choir member, church pianist; Canton First Friends Church, 1982- choir member, led a classical music appreciation group, occasionally taught a Sunday school class session

Also: went to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 1974-1978, received an M.T.S. with a concentration in church history

I lived in a Christian commune in West Gloucester, Mass. from 1973-1982, living with Christian young adults, including two other Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary students. We learned how to live as Christians (male and female), supporting each other.

I had two great parents, who (although they were not Christians), believed in me and what I could do, and helped to fund my education at Northwestern University

My marriage to my wife Cheryl, who has helped me to develop as a person, and has been my partner in beginning a truly Christian family that is being carried on by my children and their spouses

I had a period in my twenties when I struggled with depression and a lack of purpose in my life; church people helped me develop a more positive and hopeful outlook on life, and Jesus Christ truly gave me hope and purpose

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. Continue to serve Christ to the best of my ability

4. Lead in discussion groups about the importance of Church history and our Christian heritage

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