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Followers of Jesus are SHAPEd to complete a God-sized task. Let’s discover how every Christian can find fulfillment by serving the King & His kingdom, in the unique way God has SHAPEd us. 

SHAPE: Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experiences. 

Every person in here is different. Like a fingerprint or DNA, God has SHAPEd you to serve in a unique way. This church is SHAPEd to complete a God-sized task.

Check out the past teachings on our website: FOM.life

Your HEART represents the things you LOVE to do, the things that you are passionate about.

That might include: Sports, Shopping, Camping, Hunting, Fishing, Farming, Fixing Stuff, Motorcycles or Automobiles, Arts & Crafts, Cooking, Hospitality (Having Others at your Home), Playing Music, Yard Work, Serving Others.

“How could God use THAT?” 

• Joining others in these activities helps in building friendships, and leading to significant conversations.

Abilities aren’t just things you enjoy, but things you are SKILLED at. 

Some Scriptural examples include 

• skilled hunters (Esau Gen 25:27), shepherds (Joseph’s brothers in Egypt Gen 47:6), loggers (1 Kings 5:6), skilled metal workers (1 Kings 7:14), craftsmen (stonecutters, masons, carpenters, artists) to build & craft the tabernacle and the temple (2 Chronicles 2:13–14). 
• Women skilled as mid-wives helped birth many generations of babies (Gen 35:17; 38:28), even protecting babies from being killed by Pharaoh (Ex 1:17-21). 
• Weavers & designers of clothing (Ex 26:1; 28:23, 39) helped make clothing for priests and curtains for the tabernacle and temple.
• Musicians like David (whose music would help King Saul relax when he was troubled.)
• Keneniah lead other skilled singers and musicians to use their abilities to honor Yahweh (1 Chron 15:27-28) as the Ark of the Covenant was moved back to Jerusalem.
• Instrumentalists & singers served at the temple who were “trained and skilled in music for the LORD” (1 Chr 25:6-7). 
• After rebuilding the temple, Nehemiah notes 245 male and female singers (Neh 7:67) assigned to lead people in worship to Yahweh at the temple.
• In the New Testament - fishermen who knew how to sail the Sea of Galilee - whom Jesus called as disciples who sailed Him from town to town.
• Paul, Aquila and Priscilla who use their tent-making ability not only to make a living, but a tool that allowed them to share Jesus in places like Corinth. Aquila and Priscilla later moved to Rome and used their home for the church to meet in (Rom 16:3-5). 
• Likewise, Lydia, a woman who was a dealer in purple cloth (Lydia Act 16:14), used her home (provided by her abilities), as a missionary home for Paul and Silas in Phillipi. 
• How might God used your ABILITIES to honor Him & bless other people? 
• Abilities without God are just talents. 
• Abilities WITH God are tools for ministry.

Do you see how God has used His people to accomplish His task in the past? So too...

This church is SHAPEd to complete a God-sized task.

4 Personality Profiles

LIONS - fast paced, task oriented - decisive, self-starters who are goal-driven and competitive. Often blunt, impatient, and poor listeners who can view projects more important than people.

OTTERS - fast paced, people oriented - enthusiastic, personal, and fun-loving. Tend to be be disorganized, too talkative, and impulsive - without thinking through the necessary details.

GOLDEN RETRIEVERS - slow paced & people oriented, who are patient, team players, compassionate, loyal, & supportive. Likely to avoid confrontation when needed, sacrifice results for the sake of harmony, & indecisive.

BEAVERS - slow paced, task oriented folks who are detail oriented, orderly, thorough, and analytical. Can also be too critical on others and on ourselves, perfectionists who are overly cautious and overly sensitive.

* Some have a mix of a couple of those personality types.

Experience is the great teacher & God uses our experiences to shape us into followers of Jesus able to minister to others.

• God uses the joyful experiences: a wedding, a baby, a friendship. 
• God gives us spiritual experiences: the times you can sense His Presence as He has been so near. 
• And God doesn’t waste the painful experiences: our past mistakes, when death visits our door, even the times we have been injured by others.

Not all things are good, but all of our experiences - good & bad - are intended to cause us to be conformed to the image of Jesus. 

• How do we learn patience, if not for moments when things don’t go as quick as we want them to?
• How do we learn to forgive others, if no one sins against us?
• How do we learn to live for what is eternal, if there was no death, no break-downs, and no disappointments?

Galatians 1:11–17 (NIV)

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ. 

For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being. I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus.

• Before Paul met Jesus he was driven to do what he thought pleased God. After he was saved and knew what pleased God, he set the pace for the race. He didn’t wait on the approval of others, but followed Jesus quickly.

Paul is THANKFUL for his experience in prison as he sees this as an opportunity to share with the prison guards and other inmates. Further, because of Paul’s fearlessness, the Christians were encouraged to be bold for Jesus.

• Paul had many joyful experiences with His Christian brothers & sisters.
• Paul’s spiritual experiences: Salvation from Jesus on road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-20); Miraculous release from prison (Acts 16:25-34); Special vision of heaven (2 Cor. 12:2-7).
• Paul’s painful experiences: Paul participated in stoning Stephen (Acts 8:1 - he later realized was a murderous mistake); In prison multiple times, flogged 5 times, stoned and left for dead, beaten up many times, experienced 3 shipwrecks, went without sleep, food, shelter, or clothes (2 Cor. 11:23-27); Experienced demonic torment (2 Cor. 12:7)   

• God allows us to go through some tough times in the present so that we can more effectively care for others in the future. Your name is in their little book, and when the time comes, they will need your ministry. 

SPIRITUAL GIFTS DISCOVERY. Spiritual Gifts Discovery Link

SHAPE PROFILE. = Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, & Experiences. Consider taking this online SHAPE Test: www.freeshapetest.com (this test leaves out/adds some gifts not on our Spiritual Gifts Inventory). Then send this to Christy@FOM.life or Jackie@FOM.life

Plug into minisTRY (find the right fit) - Aug 21st we will have CONNECTION SUNDAY - hear about GROUPS and MINISTRIES you should consider plugging into.

1. What challenged or encouraged you most from today’s teaching? You might need to look back in your notes to help explain your answer.
2. Take some time to fill our your Spiritual Gifts Discovery & SHAPE Profile. Then share your responses with your group, family, or friend(s). This will take a lot of time, and it will be well worth it. Use the QR codes (above) - to open tests - then PRINT them and fill them out. 
3. What other questions has this teaching or discussion prompted for us to talk about?
4. Share prayer needs and pray for one another.