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

Thank you Susanna Etzel 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%

75%

62%

56%

43%

81%

56%

81%

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 am comfortable speaking in front of people. I like making connections between the truth of Scripture and (seemingly) unrelated or secular ideas. I like taking confusing or difficult ideas and clarifying them for myself and others. (Does the prompt mean “I believe I was given these gifts in order to use them in the following ways” or “The following evidence shows me that I have these gifts”??)

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I don’t know! I have not thought of myself in this way at all. Concern over the future has so little bearing on our daily call to obedience that I don’t think about it much – or at least that’s what I have believed to this point.

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
Although I am completely comfortable speaking in front of others, I also like organizing or setting up events and functions. I would rather be a committee member than the leader – assuming that the leader actually leads.

[H]eart

1. Reading

2. Talking about ideas

3. Watching my husband and children do things they love

Late high school through college age students
Children ages 3-7
My peers – adults in my own stage of life

Concerns
The degree to which the American church conflates Christianity with Republicanism
The poor use of language in numerous praise and worship songs
The limited musical language used in numerous praise and worship songs
The emphasis on feelings in many women’s ministry materials
The lost place of beauty in worship spaces and services – God is beautiful, so worship services and spaces should reflect that.

Spiritual laziness
Educational
Policy/politics

[A]bilities

Teacher

Teaching applied music
Tutoring
accompanying (piano)

play piano
foreign language

literature
philosophy of Christian education
arts in history (Western civilization)
foreign languages
inductive Bible study

my ability to order ideas

[P]ersonality

Reserved

50-50 High/Low Risk

Challenger

Project Driven

Leader

Solo

Routine

Your Primary was ‘The Beaver’, with your Secondary coming in as ‘The Lion’, and here are the descriptions of your Personalities, and how they can be used for God

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

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

[E]xperience

I grew up in a church-going home, so I learned faithful church attendance, participation, and a lot of hymns. I accepted Christ in 8th grade, but it was not until college campus ministry that I began to grow and learned to study the Bible intentionally. I decided to be baptized as an adult while in graduate school. The Lord has further used my marriage and children sharpening tools.

Grace Baptist Cedarville; Cedarville, OH – occasional pianist for worship services and hymn sings. About 5 years.
Men’s gospel quartet – pianist. About 3 years.
MOPS Mentor Mom – Cedarville, OH. About 2 years.

Eureka United Methodist Church; Eureka, IL – worship coordinator and pianist. About 2 years.

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship volunteer – Hamline University; St. Paul, MN. 1 year.

Living and teaching overseas for about two years.

Seeing the Lord work out funding for my graduate education.

Being active with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in college and the Wesley Foundation in graduate school.

Growing up with an emotionally absent and chronically angry father.

Learning of and working through trust/pornography issues in marriage.

Watching and experiencing betrayal and spiritual abuse in a Christian workplace.

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. leading/teaching adults in Christian life and thought

4. playing piano in a chamber ensemble as part of worship/church life

5. learn Greek as a tool for Bible study