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

Thank you Thomas Sevier 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:

78%

90%

96%

75%

81%

68%

87%

65%

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:
I am passionate about helping others

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
I Love the Lord
In am a sinner, and know my only hope is in God
The only hope for others is Christ

This gift’s evident in my life in the following ways:
The only way to truly love God is to have a relationship with Him. I need to open my heart, my ears, my eyes to His truth through his Holy Spirit, His Word, through prayer.

[H]eart

1. Serving God

2. Loving others

3. Being an encourager to others.

Paul said “I am all things to all people so that I may save a few.” In my older years, I have worked mostly with adults, but occassionaly with children and teens.

Teaching
Counseling

Marriage/family issues
Parenting
Financial stewardship
Abuse/violence
Spiritual laziness
Educational
At-risk children
Divorce

[A]bilities

Retired, serve as Sunday school teach, Bible Study teacher, GriefShare leader, Licensed counselor,

trained, licensed counselor
educator
administrator

Divorce care, Marriage Enrichment, Premarital counseling, Sexual Abuse Recovery, GriefShare, Divorce Care, Anger Management, Parenting, Assertiveness Training, Social Skills for Kids, Social Skills for Disabled, Stress Management, OT/NT Bible Study, Witnessing to other Religions, Boundaries, Improving Communication in the Family, Improving Communication in Marriage, His Needs/Her Needs, Eldererly Needs, Caretaker Needs

Love for God, desire to serve Him, desire to share the gospel, to serve others, to show compassion and openness for others.

[P]ersonality

Extrovert

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 Lion’, 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

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

Young boy, raised in a Christian home by parents who loved the Lord, were faithful in serving Him.. Serving God, church, and prayer was a part of our life, it was like breathing. In Yoakum Texas, in a small hispanic church, Templo Baptista, at the age of 9 years old, I new that I wanted to give my life to Christ, to serve Him. I still remember feeling His presence in me. I asked God to show me how I could serve Him.

McCart Meadows Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas, Associate Pastor/counselor, , 6 years

Oak Grove Baptist Church, Burleson, Texas, Educator, Counselor. 4 years

Parents taught us our priority in life was to seek God and follow Him. Dad and mom were not rich materially, but they loved God! If church was open, we were their with them. They raised their children well.

Brother was always steadfast in his walk with the Lord. He was a great role model. He reminded me God loved me, and He never abandoned me.

My wife! For years, I asked God for a wife that He would chose and send to me. I only wish it would have been sooner! She has kept me grounded. She has stayed by me through all the tough times. Thank you Lord! You answered my prayer!

My youth, college, early single adulthood, was not always a life honoring God, but God never gave up on me. He never left my heart. Even through those times, I would sense God’s conviction. I would finding myself praying for God’s help, his presence, his direction. Thank you Lord for your grace, for your forgiveness, for bringing me home.

Ministry is so important, but so is family. As I began ministry, my zeal to serve God almost destroyed my family. I was never home. My 8 year son met me at the door late one night coming home from work. He asked me to get another job so that I could be home more often. In my heart, I loved my family, but work, life priorities kept me from being the father and husband I needed to be. Now I wake up saying, Lord today, I need to be a better father, a better husband. Help me Lord!

I spent my young adulthood as a construction foreman, a remodeling company manager, a oil service crew leader. Seems, I was good at telling people what to do. My wife confronted me shortly after we were married. “We love you, she said, but we are not your employees to boss around. ” Being a my strong willed leader, having an impatient attitude toward others needed to come under God’s conviction, to reflect His love, so that God could change my heart and attitude to my wife, to my family, toward others, to help prepare me for 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. Grow church ministry as God guides us. Be a part of it as God allows me.

4. Love and enjoy my family, all my family, but like my parents, always teach them to put God first!

5. That God will direct me in how I can serve him, as long as He allows me.