Comments on: If you read “Dare 2 Share” or bought “Go Wide” I need your help!

By: Jessica Mallow

Jessica Mallow — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:59:24 +0000

I really really really REALLY liked your dare2share book, Greg. I started reading it the night i came home. I sat down on my bed and read 5 or 6 chapters to start with. From then on, i was literally hooked. I am in an e-team in my youth group, and i love talking to people about God. Your book has helped me in many ways to communicate to other people about the Gospel Journey. It has also helped me communicate with myself! I have learned so much from dare2share. For instance, in the book, it shows the styles of sharing the gospel message. I am a talker/stalker combination. I am really more of a talker though. I am sometimes afraid to offend people, and I share the gospel message in a creative way. In the future, however, i hope to be a mixture of all the styles. I was talking to my Mormom friend the other day, when she suddenly brought up the subject of "What did you do last weekend", and i said "I went to the most amazing dare 3 share conference ever!!!!!!!!!!", and she said "what’s a dare 2 share?" I explained to her what it was, and i told her about going out into Charlotte and telling others the gospel message. She suddenly said, "That’s wrong…don’t you have to go through training before you can go out and evangelize?" I told her no, that all people can be disciples, and she just seemed to stop talking. I have got our Gospel message started, and I will continue to answer her questions and share with her the gospel journey. There are many other people I have shared the gospel message with, but my Mormom friend is my major concern. I am praying for her, I am persuing, and I am working on persuading her. I hope i can even take her to a dare2share conference next year also. sincerely, Jessy [a world renound evangelist in the making]

By: Dozman

Dozman — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:36:33 +0000

I am a youth leader at an INCREDIBLE church here in Denver CO! We are reaching out to the "unchurched" community and God is doing INCREDIBLE things. Now, saying that, you can imagine what kind of students come with the "unchurched" family mentality; "what is church?", "who is God, really?", "why should I commit life to God now?" and so on. Well, we have been to two Dare 2 Share events now since I have been serving at this church. Our first year, we took 11 students. This year (GAMEDAY), we took almost 40 students. Now, the reason I said that is to not glorify anything that I have done, but the philosophy of dare 2 share. Not only do they put on an INCREDIBLE event, but their curriculum is TOP NOTCH. I am now well over half way through the "GO WIDE" strategy (Curriculum) and these "unchurched" students are starting to understand, commit and go wide in their lives on their campuses. I am not only doing the "GO WIDE" curriculum/strategy, but also am teaching my students the "30 Core Truths" on Sunday mornings as well. My students are eating this GO WIDE strategy up! They are bringing God up at their schools, in their families and at work. I started with 11 students that signed up (post GAMEDAY Conference) and now we have about 50-60 students that call our church their home. Not only are we growing as a youth ministry but the e team (students who are passionate in the local youth ministry to pray for their unsaved friends, pursue their friends in a deeper relationship and pursuade them to not only come to youth group but commit their lives to Christ) has grown. We are getting more kids on the e team that want to go to the next level in their commitment to Christ. We now have 14 students on the e team. In 1 month time, we have grown SPIRITUALLY and numerically. Why would a Youth Leader NOT want this happen in their ministry and one of the CORE reasons this is happening is because of this new strategy called "GO WIDE"!! Oh by the way, we as an e team are using the Dare 2 Share Field Guide to Sharing Your Faith as the training that I purchased for them and they LOVE THIS BOOK! I LOVE THIS STUFF, and would recommend this to ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE!!

By: BigDaddy

BigDaddy — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:58:47 +0000

I have been in youth ministry since 1996. Every time I pick up a resource from Greg Stier or the Dare2Share ministries I am thrilled to the core! The amount of experience and knowledge that has gone into this little red "first-aid" book is astonishing! Greg and his staff continue to raise the bar from excuses and statistics, to resources and challenges. The authentic relationships that Greg and the staff promote beyond the book reflect that it is a ministry sold out to further the Kingdom (not to just sell books)! This isn’t just another "next best thing", it’s a way of life! It is by the grace of God that Greg brings evangelism in a culturally relevant way to a spiritually apathetic world. It is love that the book equips the reader with, not just a method. In my opinion, this newest resource, "Dare2Share: A field guide to sharing your faith" is the most relevant and practical evangelism tool available today to both youth and youth workers!

By: mwe7632

mwe7632 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:27:30 +0000

I am currently taking my group through the initial 4 week Go Wide study with the plan to start our E-Team this coming January. The study has been powerful. We had a teenager saved this past Tuesday night while studying the Pursue portion!!!!! The Go Wide study is simple to put together and the discussion questions are great to be used in small group discussions rather than in a large group setting. More kids get involved in the discussion that way and my adults get another chance to mentor. I’m looking forward to the E-Team portion come January. I’ll post back after that is over. Keep up the good work!!! -Mark

By: Brian Alexander

Brian Alexander — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:07:16 +0000

I attened the D2S conference in Charlotte. I got a copy of Dare To Share the book. It truely is an amazing outreach tool. I’m still reading it, and haven’t put it down. If you haven’t read it..you should

-Brian

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:51:02 +0000

I bought the Dare2Share book at the Denver conference. Two other youth with me also bought it. We all have read it at least once and are constantly using it to reference our ongoing experiences with sharing the Gospel and also as a very strong teaching tool for those wondering what the heck they are supposed to do out there in the world! As a youth leader I need to be very sensitive to where my "kids" are in their spiritual journey. The Dare2Share book has allowed me to help each child to know that being different and having a different approach to how they share their faith in OK. They all have great respect for the Dare2Share team and can’t wait for next year’s conference. Thanks

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:38:51 +0000

Totally delete that wow that was the wrong book… but my friend did by the dare 2 share book and he challenged us to apply one of the stories to our lives. I think it was go around school and everyone you see walk by has bound for hell on there forehead… I did that and man i wanted to scream i don’t want all those people going to hell there not that bad. It has made me think a lot about what it going on in my school and how i can get to the kids that don’t know God!

Sorry about that … my bad

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:29:35 +0000

I love the Dare 2 Share book… I carry it with me everywhere. It gives me confidence to walk throught the school hallways… Just the other day i got to put it to good use. I was in my health class and were were talking about nutrition and how different religions eat different ways. Getting of the topic the teacher took a pole to see how many students attend church every sunday. I was the only one that had there hand raised. So we started talking about different religions and i remebered that my dare 2 share book had some information on them. I took it out right away and started answering peoples questions and i had the web sites handy if they wanted to know more. Oh and some of the people had thoughts that christians want to be God but now they know that we want to be like him. This is one of many instances where i have used the book. I truly use it everyday to keep me right with my life. It is a very good tool. Well off to face the world again with more confidence than ever.

By: Will Bratina

Will Bratina — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:05:45 +0000

Hey, Greg. I picked up the Dare2Share Field Guide at the PK conference in Colorado Springs in August. I had seen it on the conference site and it reminded me of a Swiss Army survival guide. That was the hook. Your passion for the Cross and the Gospel are evident in the many vivid real-life parables you use to bring the rewards of Heaven and the punishments of Hell to the reader in a powerful way. The timing was perfect because I was able to read the entire book before our D2S conference in November in Denver. I was so impressed by the no-nonsense, yet loving techniques to share the Good News of Jesus Christ that I purchased 10 more copies to present to the kids I accompanied to the conference. The title "A Field Guide to Sharing Your Faith" is AWESOME, because this book is so streamlined in size and easy to reference the user can carry it and access the segues ANYWHERE, ANYTIME! I keep going back to it as a reference. Definitely not a "one-time" read. God continues to use Greg Stier in a POWERFUL way to reach more than one generation for Christ through the Dare2Share Field Guide.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:58:53 +0000

I can’t review this for ya since I’ve never seen the product, but man, infusing evangelism into the DNA of my youth group is exactly what we need. You can count on me to throw some pennies in your pocket as soon as my youth budget resets in January.