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Shreddin the Gnar

Posted on Wednesday 5 November 2008 by Greg @ 9:44 am
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Thanks for deciding to SHRED THE GNAR with your friends! We will be praying for you as you begin to share the GOSPEL Journey with them. Please be sure to list their first names below so we can pray specifically for them!

Tell us your story below and don’t forget to visit this site often and update us. We want to know how God is using you to SHRED THE GNAR!

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On November 9, 2008 @ 7:02 am Phil McClay said:

Greg

Wow!! What an amazing weekend in DC!! Brother I am a youth leader from Faith Baptist in Sellersville PA…our youth pastor and I talked to you at the dinner Saturday night and I introduced you to my son…we are from Philly. I thank God for your ministry and everyone of the phenominally passionate Jesus lovers at D2S! You all are an amazing challenge and blessing to me, my son, all the teens in our youth group and obviously so many, many teens across America! I accepted the 48 hour challenge and double dare last year brother and I continue to share my faith with everyone I know. I was so challenged this weekend and am so burdened for the teens in our youth group as well as all the teens in the Philly area and am praying for God to do an amazing work through our teens that have been energized by this weekend! I have accepted the challenge you gave at the dinner Saturday…I want to reach our youth for Jesus!!! Last night at the hotel I had the opportunity of sharing the GOSPEL with 4 teens from our youth group…one in the parking lot, while about 20 teens from our youth group and another youth group had their own praise and worship and prayer time in the parking lot. That young person did not accept Christ but is considering it…I told that teen I love them and was praying for them. As I walked to my room around 11:30 I stepped over 4 of our teens who were talking in the hallway. One of our young ladies was share her faith with 3 of our foreign exchange students. One of the students from Thailand asked me to come back and answer some question about HOW do you trust God. I shared the GOSPEL and answered questions and prayed with them. I told them they could make a decision now. they chose to think about it more. I said if you make a decison tonight tell me tomorrow or ask me whatever other questions you may have and I will keep praying for them. 30 minutes later all 3 students were led to Jesus by 2 teens from our youth group as they “Shreaded the GNAR”!!! Praise God!!! Brother…Last night Dare2share went international in our youth group!! Greg, thank you for you love and passion for Jesus and for teens!! Keep shreading the gnar and teaching teens to do the same! I love you brother and I am praying for you and the INVINCIBLE tour!!

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Doug Gardner Reply:
November 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am
God is continuing to do some awesome things in our community north of Philly. On our first Wed. night service back I noticed a new girl sitting and asked one of our teens who she was. His reply was “Her name is Hannah and she got saved today at lunch.” Two of our teens were eating lunch with a friend and started Shredd’n with her and she received Christ. We had a 10th grade teen at the DC conference who was fighting God pretty hard. Phil made mention that he talked to him in the parking lot of the hotel after the conference. A week later after battling hard with God he received Christ over the phone as one of our teens led him to Christ. God is doing some amazing things in this area as Phil and I just had lunch yesterday with two other youth pastors in our area who were at DC and we all shared how much God was doing in the lives of our teens. We also discussed some really exciting ways to keep that merry go round spinning. We are committed to developing teens who are passionate about the Gospel. We are seeing some obsessed teens Shred like crazy. On the Wednesday after the conference when I asked how many had already shredded with a friend I had over half my group of about 50 teens there said that they had already shredded that week. I began to get text messages from kids who weren’t even at the conference that they were shredding the gnar with their friends. I don’t even want to see my cell phone bill for next month! At our TOTS (Teens Outreaching To Students)Bible study the Monday after the Conference we had more teens commit to shred with five of their friends. God is just exalting Himself in the eyes of our teens and it is exciting to see their passion for Christ and the Gospel. Thanks for the sacrifice you guys make to help us to mobilize our teens to relationally and relentlessly share their faith!

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ostynn bartels Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
yo Greg awesome job last night at d2s…i had so much fun…….do u know marty hein cause hes my youth director and i shook ur hand last night with him.For me it was really moving and it opened my eyes and im definitly coming next year…if u want write back to my email–obartels@yahoo.com u and zane are awesome!!!!!!

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Nicole Reply:
January 1st, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Greg,
I am not sure how else to get into contact with you. I have been searching the website and this is the only thing I could come up with. I need your help. I have been to a Dare to Share conferences years ago and have even heard you preach at the Foothills Church in Arvada. You are the only one I know who can help me. Please, email me back so that I may share with you my story and find help.
Nicole

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On November 9, 2008 @ 11:36 am Aaron Ulrich said:

These are my top 5 best friends to start shreddin the gnar with!! I hope it goes great. Ben is a mormon, Ryan I don’t really know what he believes in. David, I don’t know either. Arash is a muslim, one of my best friends and Meredith appears to be a Christian, but it’s better to ask then to never find out. I was at the Dare to Share and it was great, it was good that you all weren’t the “fire and brimstone” preachers, it was rally laid back and as a youth student I can say that everyone loved this event. Greg and Zane rock!!

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On November 9, 2008 @ 4:41 pm Tiffany said:

Hey Greg! During the conference when we had to call someone, I called my friend Mikayla-Blevins Taylor. Right when I asked her “What are your spiritual beliefs?” she hung up on me. Then during the second meeting when we had to text someone I texted her. She finally started listening to me. I’m in the process of getting her saved!! your script really helped. Thank you sooo much for what you told me at the conference:)

JESUS IS THE MAN!

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On November 9, 2008 @ 8:06 pm viorica frazier said:

The one Sunday, when Doug Winne was talking about when he went to a conference one time when he was about my age, that he was not looking forward going to. I sat there in service listening and thinking the same thing. I was really not excited about it. Our church youth group and other kids went to Dare to Share Conference. The first night we had speakers. One speaker was talking about that we need to go and make disciples of all nations. We need to get out of our comfort zone. When they said we were going to house to house and telling them about the gospel and getting canned foods for the Salvation Army. I was feeling uncomfortable. I was not ready. I was one of those kids in the crowd acting like I was ready putting on an act. I was not ready. During the worship that night I could feel that the Holy Spirit was trying to say something. One of the speakers said are you ready to go out and do this? I was saying that over and over in my mind. Then we sang some more and I just stood there and cried. I started praising God and crying his name out.

One of my friends asked if we could talk. She felt the same way as me. She said I donâ€™t belong here. She just was saying how she felt just how I was not being ready and all these things that she did a lot of bad things. â€œGod wonâ€™t love me because I did all theses things (bad)â€. I asked her if she knew what the word forgiveness means. I explained it. I knew that I could feel God saying â€œam I ready to tell her about the gospel.â€ I was ready. I asked if she was a believer. That night my friend became a Christian.

That next morning we had a really good discussion. I knew I was ready. I was so excited and ready to go out and evangelize. I couldnâ€™t wait. Our group went to lunch out at a big mall at a food court. Right after lunch we were going to different houses and evangelize. I roamed around to see what they had to eat. Then I went into 5 below. I was just getting my wallet out of my pocket and next thing I know someone grabbed my wallet. First I thought one of my friends was just playing around. I snatched it back. Once I looked, it wasnâ€™t. It was two black guys with black sweatshirts. I ran out of five below and out side. I turned around and didnâ€™t see anyone. I was relieved and just walked on. Next thing I know those same guys grabbed my shirt and gave me a good closed hand punch to my mouth. (I still had my wallet in my hand.) I remember hitting the ground. I remember looking back and seeing them running away. I donâ€™t understand why they didnâ€™t grab my wallet? A punch and run? When I got to find my group, I finally told one of the leaders and which told Ryan. Ryan and Marie were with me with the police in the security room. I had to retell my story several times. I thank Marie and Ryan for being there with me. We were there for 4 or 5 hours. The rest of the group went to evangelized. I sat in the room thinking, God why did this happen to me? I was ready wasnâ€™t I? I donâ€™t understand why I got punched and couldnâ€™t go with the rest of the group. I figured out that I think God was testing me to see if I would tell the Gospel to one of the officers and obey God and see if I was ready. The last officer that talked to me was really nice and polite. The first questioned I asked was â€œHow long have you been a police officer? Then I asked if he believe in God. He said that he was a Christian. He was a youth pastor for 10 years. I was obedient to God and God gave me two people to witness to and I didnâ€™t say another time. It was a blessing that I went on this trip. I have changed a lot and fell the presence of the Holy Spirit. I am not afraid to get out of my comfort zone. I thank God that the punched I got was a wake up call to me. You need to be ready anytime to share the gospel to any one. We need to go out and make disciples.

God bless your day,
Viorica Frazier\

This happened last year at dare2share in 07

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On November 9, 2008 @ 8:14 pm viorica frazier said:

Today the day after Dare2share….on sunday after church i went to the park with my autistic brother and TSS(aid) I was chillin and this guy was chillin and i asked him “do you know where u are going to go when you die?” He said i dont really know. THen i asked if he knew how people get to heaven. He said ” I think it is byy doing good?” I said it is not by good deeds but by accepting christ in your heart and asking God to forgive you of your sins. He then said ” God wont like me because i have done alot of bad stuff” Then i said ” yeah he wont like you…he will love you and love you for every. story short I explained about Jesus taking the price and dying on the cross. By the end i prayed and he accepted CHRIST!!!!! I gave information about our church and hoping to seee him Sunday. HE seemed really interested. PRAISE GOD!!!

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On November 9, 2008 @ 9:03 pm Ebony Gough said:

Hey i was @ the confrence yestrday ad friday and i was like so glad i came cuz i didnt feel the same way i did when i first came to when i left and i happy i came i enjoyed the speakers and You mister” Jesus when agian !”
But yeah i had fun and uh
I Loves Yah BYESS

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On November 9, 2008 @ 9:55 pm Todd Bruce said:

It is after 10pm, and I am getting back from dropping off my last teen and cleaning out the van (brushes, paper scraps, gum, and other things I didn’t really want to touch after driving all afternooon.) But, I am still pumped up from the DC conference. I am especially excited because of the work God has done in my group of 12 teens.
3 salvations, with fruit right away and at least 2 other of their friends trusting in Christ because of their witness! I am hoping they are going to plug in their stories here.
My group of boys…actually stayed up late…well that isn’t anything different…but we talked about Spiritual things! My guys have never done that. The girls were the same. All were pumped, ready to Shred the Gnar when I left them.
I was able to share the gospel with one of my teens on my heart along the way home. He called checking on his sister, to see when to pick her up. I said, it is great you called, because I totally wanted to talk to you! After our conversation, he wanted to put his trust in Christ and said (responding to the GOSPEL), “since you put it that way…that is amazing”
That isn’t the END! It just the beginning of shredding the gnar…I hope to continue to encourage those who hear the GOSPEL to go deep and wide! And I will encourage our teens to do the same.

Praise God! Jesus has done some great things. The momentum is going full force, I pray it will continue!
Todd Bruce- Youth Pastor. North Fork Baptist Church Seneca Rocks, WV

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On November 10, 2008 @ 3:15 pm Elizabeth said:

I was at Dare2Share DC this weekend, and I had a great time. The message was really moving and I made the commitment to Shred the Gnar with my cousin Melanie from San Antonio, TX. One part of the weekend that really got to me was the memorizing verses as the “sword of the spirit.” I’ve already started and there’s already a shift. It’s just Monday! God Bless you and Dare2Share for everything.

Your friend in Shreddin’

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On November 10, 2008 @ 4:50 pm April said:

I had an awesome time this weekend. The skit on Friday and Hayles story really touched me I have cut myself in the past and I am just getting over it. It really encouraged me to stop and do what is right. God worked in many ways in my life this weekend. I was save September 9,2008 and I haven’t really rely on Him to help me with my problems but this weekend changed that for me. I am so glad I went.

Thank You for doing what you do,
April

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On November 10, 2008 @ 5:49 pm Chris Ruefer said:

Greg:
I’ve been praying for years that my parents would be saved. I’ve spoken to then on and off but it’s been sometime since I’ve asked them again, who do they really think Jesus is?

After this weekend’s conference, I felt moved to go see them so the whole family loaded up and drove an hour west to spend Sunday afternoon with them. I was aole to speak with both my parents letting them know that I’m convinced Jesus is who says He is and that I want very much to continue a conversation with them about that very issue. I explained how it’s not about religion (I used your story about how jesus couldn’t stand religious people either!) but about knowing the God of the Universe.

They weren’t ready to commit but I know the Lord wants them too and they said they understand why I would want to tell them.

It’s time for me to wait on them some more so please pray they will be moved to ask me more questions!

Also, I meet a friend for lunch obn Wednesday and plan to ask him whee he’s at with teh Lord as well. Pray for me and him!

Thanks for the inspiration and ideas and tools!

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On November 10, 2008 @ 7:14 pm david cook said:

i love dare2share i loved the music the people the speakers everything i also want to thank zane for introducing the book shreddin the gnar

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On November 10, 2008 @ 8:32 pm Ashlie said:

I have a friend who has been through alot. She has been cutting herself, and drinking, and going to parties,and she just got saved over the summer, but she isn’t living her life like a Christian should. I have been trying to pray for her. Actually, when you were teaching us the whole PRAY thing in D.C. the other night, I prayed for her then. That was my request to God, that she understands how serious that this actually is. I was talking to her right after I prayed, and she said that she was gonna stop cutting herself since she just figured out that this wasn’t just hurting her physically;it was hurting others emotionally. I was glad that that she was finally taking that seriously, but later that night she told me about all of the other problems she has and I just felt horrible for her. She says she’s going to stop cutting, but she’s skipping church on Wedneday and Sunday because she’s going to parties. For some reason I feel like it’s my fault because I knew that she didn’t have a good family-life at home(abusive stepdad;doesn’t know who father is)and I’ve felt before that I needed to talk to her about it because I didn’t want anyone I knew to have to go through what she’s going through now. She doesn’t get very much attention at home, so she looks to guys for attention. Please just pray for her because she says she might be moving, and she has been with our church her whole life. And we have AMAZZZINGGG youth ministers that could help her through it.

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On November 10, 2008 @ 11:02 pm Tessa Anwyll said:

Greg,
I took your challenge to witness to 5 friends at Dare2Share in DC this year, and so far I’ve witnessed to 3 of them, and one of them has accepted Christ! I’m so thankful for the Dare2Share conference and how it teaches me so much and lights my faith on fire. I feel a million times closer to God thanks to your efforts and prayers for the youth of america.

In Him,
Tessa Anwyll

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On November 11, 2008 @ 7:18 am Chelsea Kramer said:

I have been telling them about the Tour and shredding the gnar but they laughed. I tried to tell them it is not a laughing matter . So i desided to teach them all you ,Zane and Derwin talked about Nov 7-8.
Please pray for me!
Chelsea kramer

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On November 12, 2008 @ 7:45 am Jenna Haton said:

So I was talking to my friend about my weekend and Derwin Grays name came up in my speech, and my friend is a Colts fan, and so i was talking to him about what happened, and i shared the gospel with him and i talk to him everyday about it. Its soo cool that i could do that. I feel way more confident about it since i went to dare2share confrence.

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On November 13, 2008 @ 10:16 am Timmy said:

Shreddin The Gnar is one of the greatest things ever. On the way home with my youth group we stopped in washington dc and we saw a homeless man…so we decided to shred the gnar with him. Things were a little nervous at first but it was all good at the end. we gave him some food and a new pair of sunglasses while we were at it. He put his trust and God and believed every man and woman should believe and put that trust into God.

I am also working on my one friend she doesnt want to hear what i have to say but i know God will help me and help soften her heart. Ill be getting the point across to her soon =].

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On November 15, 2008 @ 9:50 pm Emily Kiesel said:

Wow!!! I’m going to shred the gnar with my friends. It’s going to be tough I know, but with the armour of God, I KNOW I can do it! The Devil will not win! Not under my watch. I’ve learned how to use the armour of God, pray, and give my whole heart to God. I’m so stoked! It’s going to be the biggest wave I’ve ever ridden. But I can defeat it. There’s no other choice. I’ve chosen to shred the gnar and there’s no turning back. For all of you out there who are with me. Let’s go! Our journy starts now! This second. Let’s do it! SHRED THE GNAR! But remember memorize verses for you defense. Make this the motto to your life. Shred the gnar in everything you do. Amen (So be it)

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On November 15, 2008 @ 9:52 pm LEYANET said:

duDE IM A sKATEBOARDER!
I LOVE GOD WITH ALL MY HEARTS!
i LOVE MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, cLIVC FIVE, gREEN DAY, pANIC AT THE DISCO yoU NAME IT!
bREATH sKATEBOARDING AND sKATEBOARDING ON MY MIND 24 HOUR!
im shREEDING THE gnar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
loVE GOD WITH ALL MY HEARTS!!!!!!!!!

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On November 15, 2008 @ 11:51 pm m.shack said:

i just got back from dare 2 share in DENVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m totally stoked and am ready to shred the gnar!!!!!!!!!!! i know its gonna be hard but ive got God the father on my side and i know i can never lose.i have my five friends that I’m starting with and i would like to ask anyone reading this to pray for dona Katherine Katie Andrew and quin. they don’t know our God yet and i plan to change that real soon! i started with my friend Katie. I’ve been asking her to come to church with me for a while but shes always refused, but a couple days ago she came up to me and just said “i think I’m gonna try church with you.” she explained that her dad said that its better to believe in some thing than nothing and she wants to learn more about the christian faith. I’m so excited to share everything i know with her and to prove to her that Christ is the only way. so when you read this please pray for me and pray for Katie.

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On November 15, 2008 @ 11:57 pm Manda said:

My friend Ryan( doesn’t belive in a higher power and he belives nothing happens after life), well he’s not really my friend but he is my brothers friend, and I met him awhile ago but last week I started talking to him,and on friday. On friday I got his number and started texting him, I told him that I was going to Dare2Share with my church. He said that he wasn’t religious, I said I wasn’t either and then he stoped texting me. I immediately wanted to call him for the cellphone challenge, but I knew that came the next day. When it came time to call him, I got alittle nervous. I explained everything to him and he said it didn’t make sense so I tried again but he still didn’t understand. So I said that I would explain to him on monday. When everyone was at lunch, I started to text him and I got into to a convo with him about God,Jesus,that God gives everyone a purpose, and stuff like that. Half way through it seemed like I got to him, but I said that God cares about him and loves him and God has a purpose for him and he just said “sure mkay” and that was it…..nothing else, so if you could pray for him that he will become a Christian please
Thanks a ton!!
Manda

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On November 16, 2008 @ 12:44 am Jeanette H. said:

Hey Greg, I literally just got back from Denver. This is my third year at Dare To Share and as always it was amazing. The dramas always touch me but this year it was so touching, thank you for bein a tool for God. He uses you in an amazing way. When Lauren walked out of her room and followed Jesus and handed him the razor, I started bawling because I knew that I was that girl who walked away with Jesus and gave him my scars. I can’t wait to tell my friends the good news, you really aquiped me this year. Next year I will be there with those five friends.

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On November 16, 2008 @ 10:23 am Carter Budwell said:

Thank you so much. I just posted my friends names (Kelsie, Taylor, Victoria, Cynthia, and Leigh) I and some other friends will be organizing a Q & A this Thursday at my old college, where we can hopefully answers any questions our non Christian friends may have. Be blessed!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 10:53 am Lauren yaffe said:

Well At the cell phone challange I called my neibor but she didn’t answer so I left her a message saying “Jesus loves u lots and lots and I do too!!!” so then I caked my other friend and asked her if she was a beliver in Christ and she said of course I love him so much

That afternoon I went to this guys house and he opened the door and we read the script and he gave us cans but I felt so so touched because this guy had nothing and he might Have given me his dinner for the next night.

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On November 16, 2008 @ 12:56 pm Kaitlyn Lawrence said:

Greg-

Last night and the night before changed my life! D2S is an amazing experience every teen should go to! I had never really thought about how there was a spiritual war going on, i just knew that God and the devil didn’t get along and fought often. I also had never thought about how Satan’s demons whisper in your ear, telling you lies about you and your life. I have had demons whisper in my ear, but I didn’t know it was them. Thank you so much for starting the D2S for teens; it really can transform you and change your view on life. I’M GOING TO TELL ALL MY FRIENDS TO GO!!! See ya at Blaze!!!

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November 16th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Wow, I was there too and it was a life changing experience. I also went last year and both of the years i have gone both changed my life, relationship with God, and how i spread the Gospel.

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On November 16, 2008 @ 2:49 pm Isabel said:

Hey guys!

Well I haven’y gotten a reply but I started to evangelize to a friend online.He hasn’t replied but I am hoping he will! Thats all for now.

See Ya!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 2:50 pm Mackenzee Shultz said:

This weekend was a life changing time for me. I went to Dare2share and i absolutly loved it. I found God, i found Jesus.
The first night i had a “Jesus moment” (thats what my youth leader called it) When the skit about cutting was over and you talked about all the demons that cause it, i started to ball my eyes out.
I cryed and cryed and cryed, that was my Jesus moment.
I had that jesus moment because i used to cut, alot. It was an addiction.I would tell myself, “ewe look at how fat you are, your fat and the only thing to like about you are your eyes”.
people only liked my eyes.
and i would say that over and over.
the first time i cut, i only had 5 cuts.
The second time i cut i made 42 new cuts in my arm.
after that it just got worse and worse.
I’ve been to many hospitals because of it.
The thing that truely made me relise that people do love me and jesus does love me was dare2share.
I believe Jesus has forviven me.
Since that day, being at dare2share, i’ve decided that my life is gunna change.
I’m completly christian now.
And i thank you and the others for this.
By the way, You made me smile and laugh the whole time, your a funny guy, i love how you can make what your teaching a fun experiance for everyone.

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On November 16, 2008 @ 3:06 pm Matt H said:

I Not only am given the chance to share with these 5, But also with my entire guitar class. For our final, we are given the oppurunity of playing one song that we pick. I picked Never Underestimate My Jesus By relient K.

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On November 16, 2008 @ 4:37 pm Amanda Whitler said:

So i was inspired after dare2share in denver to start sheddin the Gnar as sson as possible and i did. I wrote an email to all of my friends telling them about the gospel and to tell them what it means. I also told them not to offend anyone and not to pressure anyone who doesn’t chose to change. So here is my awesome email.

Hey sorry if this is akward but HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW GOD? At a conference that i went to we talked about shreddin the nar! And to talk to our friends that may not be christian and we also learned about the gospel and an acranime for, and please try not to offend your friends because that is rood and disrespectful, so if your friend tells you no or not to talk about it listen to them, or u may end up in big trouble with parents and then whoever forwarded it to u will get in trouble and whoever forwarded it to them will and it will just be a huge giant chain of people getting in trouble and people feeling like they are being pressured into something that they may not want to be in. So please don’t hurt peoples fellings, offend them, or make them do things that they don’t want to. Also please read everything and theyn reply and forward to others.

G: God created us to be with him

O: Our sins separates us from God

S: Sins can not be removed by good deeds

P: Paying for sin Jesus died and rose again

E: Everyone who trusting alone in God has Eternal life

L: Life that’s is eternal means we will be with Jesus forever

And what this means is that if we trust in God and follow God and believe that he is there for us then we will have eternal life in heaven. And shreddin the nar if u are wondering what it means is that it means to go out of our comfort zone to preach the gospel to everyone that i know isn’t a christian or whoever doesn’t believe in God. So what does this mean to u? Can i pray for anything for u? And after what u just read and i can talk to u more about it if u want me too, but if u wanted would u commit your life to Jesus Christ our God? And u don’t have to i am just wondering.

send this to all of your friends and tell them about the gospel and lead them to a life with God so that you can see them in heaven.

And if you already know God then really start to connect with him and follow in his words, steps, and life plans for you!! This is also a great way to reach you friends and help them learn more about the gospel and God.

Forward this to your Christian, non christian, and maybe non believer friends and then call them to see if they understand it and if they are willing to turn there lives over to God today!!! If they are then email Amanda at whitlers@netzero.com. or Casey at thedawnsings775@gmail.com And tell me you story so that i can tell one of my leaders at church your wonderful stories. And don’t pressure you friends into becoming christians or changing their religion it is just what i have been inspired to do and many people may say no because they can’t have a religion but the way i look at it and some others look at it Christianity really isn’t a religion it is a lifestyle. don’t use our emails for sending us anything rood or inappropiate or your parents will get a phine call on what u sent us.

Thanx for reading and cosidering, and replying,

Amanda and Casey

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On November 16, 2008 @ 4:46 pm Valerie said:

Hey!!

Well, this was my first Dare to Share, and I have to say, it was amazing!!

During the time where we had to call our friends, I texted my friend instead. I’m never good on the phone. I texted my friend Adam and told him where I was and stuff. He was like, “Isn’t church only on Sundays?” And our conversation started from there. I explained a lot to him and he said he had never heard it quite in that way. He said he has a lot of christian friends but none of them talk about anything “interesting.” So, I asked him what he thought was “interesting” (meaning about Christianity) but he just replied with “guitars, video games, and girls.” I used that and turned the conversation back to Christ. Once again, he tried to get off subject. I went back a few times until finally he didn’t text back. Then, a few hours later, he texted me and asked me what I was doing for the rest of the night. I told him that I was still going to be Dare to Share. He hasn’t texted back since.

You see, I’ve tried to talk to him like this before. He says he just doesn’t think that God is worth the time. He’d rather be doing other things.

I’m going to keep talking to him about it, but I want to thank you so much for getting this started. I’ve never been good at sharing my faith.

So, keep praying for Adam and that God will give me strength when I talk to him.

Thank You!!

In His Grip,
~Valerie

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On November 16, 2008 @ 4:59 pm Bailey W. Lonnberg said:

For the 48 hour challenge, a miracle happened. I went to churchand was in the youth group room waiting for everyone to show. My leader came in and said,”Grab your stuff and hurry!” We order bread very and some of the church families take some, right. Well, we for some reason we got a couple hundred hotdogs with it!!! So we gave out free hotdogs in Brigton during our youth group time today. We did squeezed in 10 minutes though of bible time. We made posters like ” Jesus loves free hotdogs!” and “Honk if you like free hotdgs” or “Jesus and Hotdogs Mix”. We also made blak and white copies of the G.O.S.P.E.L. and handed them out with our hotdogs. It Was AWASOME!!!!!!!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 5:18 pm claireg said:

O my goodness! Greg you rock! I went to the Denever Dare 2 Share and it was life changing and amazing and I am so pumped and will go crazy waiting for Blaze to come! I had so much fun!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 5:27 pm Ali said:

I went to Invinsible and it was a blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the band Fee. And I Really want to read The Shreddin the Gnar book!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 5:30 pm claireg said:

I really felt alive and blessed!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 5:48 pm savannah said:

Hey Greg!
I was at the denver dare 2 share and it was amazingly awesome!! during the cell phone challenge, i actually chose to call my dad..I have been trying to talk to my dad about christ for a very long time, but everytime i have tryed to bring it up he gets really deffensive and even trys to put down god. i love my dad so much that is why i have tryed to get him to come to christ so he can be with me in paradise someday! well during the cell phone challenge he did the same exact thing. i am really scared for my dad, and i just need to know if you have any advise for me? Thank you so much! and god bless you!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 5:59 pm lyndsey stecklein said:

Greg,
hello from colorado. i was at your confrence yesterday and friday, it was a life changing time. umm about shreddin the gnar, this is probally going to be the hardest thing i am ever going to do. well during the cell phone challenge there were two people in my youth group that could not talk to there friend that they wanted to shred the gnar to. are friends name is dillon he is in jail for doing some dumb stuff. but before he went to jail he did a really stupid thing, he got a tattoo and that tattoo was a up side down cross. so he started believing in the devil. and we were talking to him before he went but he would get so mad at me, but after this weekend listening to you, zane, and derwin talk we learned alot. so towards the end of the challenger me and my friend prayed together for him. so i just would like everyone at the dare to share family to pray for him.
and the last thing is i want to tell you that you and zane and derwin are amazing. just looking around the pepsi center this weekend and how many kids were there i think it is great that you guys could actually talk in front of them. so thank you. and thank you for praying for my friend.

glory to the one who created us!
~lyndsey

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On November 16, 2008 @ 6:37 pm Bailey said:

I started 2 shreddin the gnar right after i got home from dare2share in denver co!!!!!!
SHREDDIN THE GNAR!!!!!!!

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December 22nd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I agree totally!!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 8:25 pm Nicole Mule' said:

Hello my name is Nicole and i go to First Christian Church in Canon City Co
My story is that when i called my friend last night i told them about G-O-S-P-E-L and told her what it meant and i also told her that jesus died on the cross for us and he rose again three days later. I asked if that mean’t sense and she said yes and that night she became a christian and now is going to my church.

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On November 16, 2008 @ 8:48 pm sarina p.v. said:

I was born a Christan but I thought that by being a Christan that I was already saved. But then I realized that I needed to put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ. So when I was 7 years old, that’s exactly what I did.

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On November 16, 2008 @ 8:55 pm zach prather said:

hey greg,
i have actually had one of my friends say they are going to come to youth group on average and tell me she has been talkin to jesus….it is a feeling like no other. i feel like i just had the biggest success in my life. but her parents wont let her come to any of the conferences and she would have to sneek to the youth group because her parents are catholic……..i really need some advice for both me and her…she is trying to convince her parents that it cant hurt it that much to go.”which we know it wont” and yea please help me!!!

thanks
zach prather

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On November 16, 2008 @ 8:58 pm Ellie said:

Hello my name is Ellie and I go to Rockland Community Church, When i went do dare 2 share it changed my life this year was my favorite, and i think it was a message from god to me to be there because I was a cutter 2 until this weekend. I am telling myself that cutting doesn’t solve anything and it just hurts worse than anything. My life has been so difficult lately, I mean my dad left and my older brother is starting to do drugs,and I feel alone. So I am deciding to tell my friends about the GOSPEL. I memorized it. So I thank You for helping me change my decisions

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On November 16, 2008 @ 9:10 pm Stormi said:

I’M GOING TO SHRED THE GNAR!!!!!!!!!!!

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On November 16, 2008 @ 10:13 pm Jeremiah Brown said:

Greg, as a new youth group and as a new youth leader, i was excited to go to a “real” event. It was well worth it. Two of the four we took are totally serious about the commitment they made over the weekend. THey have both hit the five person goal early in the week and have been sharing very actively in their school. One completed the call you had them do on Saturday, when we returned to our area. THanks for the ministry you do.

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On November 17, 2008 @ 1:04 am Ashley L. said:

Greg,

I was at Dare 2 Share in denver this weekend and it was amazing….this was my fourth D2S and it was AMAZING yet agan. This year for the cell phone challenge i decided to talk to my friend sam only i couldn’t call her because she was working but i texted her and she is really interested in what i was saying. I wasn’t really able to articulate what i really wanted to say over text messaging so i’m going to see if she would like to get lunch this week so i can discuss this with her in person. She is really seaching right now and i’m just excited to be one of the people to help her along the way and show her God’s love.

So, thank you so much for another great dare 2 share weekend. I’m sad cuz this may be my last one. But it was so much fun….keep doing what you’re doing you’re changing so many lives!!!

your in my prayers,
Ashley

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On November 17, 2008 @ 8:30 am Haleigh said:

Greg i was at dare2share and it was so amazing it changed my life and others as well. For example when we were out telling the people about the gospel i got into a conversation with a lady and didn’t change her heart but the opportunity was and hopefully still there for her. Thank you so much for holding the confrence. It was so much fun. Tell ZANE, and Derwin and the rest of the crew,”haleigh washington from denver says hey.” my prayers are with you and my faith is so strong. Thanks again i feel confident to preach no i’ll just tell them about it firtst well i feel better to help people understand the gospel and the Lord Jesus Chirst.
“It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Chirst was not known so that i would not be builing on someone else’s foundation.”-Romans 15:20
P.S. Pray for me my dumbometer keeps going off.

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On November 17, 2008 @ 10:09 am brianna delgado said:

i told my 5 friends about the gospel and i explained to them about jesus and how he loves each and every one of us and some of my friends didnt really seem to care but there were a few that seemed to open up to god and i want them to understand that god is there for them

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On November 17, 2008 @ 10:16 am ashanda harris said:

when i was at dare to share in DENVER COLORADO…lol….i took the cell phine challenge and talked to my best friend. she is an athiest. when i was talking to her she didnt mind because i was her best friend so she listened…. by the end of our conversation she was closer to god then she ever has been in her whole life! i was so proud of her! god totally used me to make his way to her soul! i gave/give all praises to him!…..im still talking to the other friends lol

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On November 17, 2008 @ 12:00 pm Daniel Reed said:

God works in mysterious ways

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On November 17, 2008 @ 12:45 pm Zoe Leishman said:

I just graduated form PU again after shreddin the gnar with my friend Brandy. I went through the gospel with her and when I asked if that had made sence she said yes, but when I asked if she wanted to put her trust in jesus to take her to heaven she told me how she belives in reincarnation and that there is no heaven. I’m really disapointed but I’m going to keep praying for her. If nothing else hopefully I got the door knocking

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On November 17, 2008 @ 4:47 pm Shanelle said:

Hey you know what is crazy I have grown up in a christian home and I have never really felt comfortable about sharing my faith with anyone around me but now I shred the gnar every chance I get. I am asking you to please pray for me to continue to shred the gnar and not to be scared.

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On November 17, 2008 @ 4:50 pm Taylor Abney said:

Dear Greg,

Today, Monday November 17th, 2008, I shredded the Gnar! I was getting a ride home from school by my friend Justin. We were talking and all of a sudden I thought that it was the perfect time to SHRED THE GNAR! Well I asked what he thought of religion. He basically told me how his mom and dad grew up in a church until they met each other and had kids they stoped going to church and that they only went with their grandparents on holidays. I told him that a religion is confusing and that its not about a religion its about a relationship. He told me that he has never heard of it that way before. So i broke down the GOSPEL acronym with him. I also asked him if Jesus was sitting next to me right then, would he go to heaven. He said, you know Taylor I dont evan know I want to but I dont know. I kinda put my hand on his shoulder and I told how he could change it starting today. He told from know on whatever I do with my church that he wants to become a member of my church and follow christ as his savior.
Thanks for all the help,

God Bless,

-Taylor Abney

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On November 17, 2008 @ 4:59 pm Gabriela Gonzales said:

Hi Greg,
I gave my life to Christ on Friday night after seeing the skit about the girl in the room with the demons. I feel like that because I have a hard time with self confidence. I am really down on myself and I am starting to pray and ask God to help me. Today at school, at lunch I asked my friends where they thought they were going when they died. My friend Sam said heaven and my other two friends Rebecca and Olivia said that they didn’t believe in heaven. Sam is a christian so she helped me “shred the gnar.” They told me that they believed that heaven was a dream and that when we died we would become fairies or sprites. I talked to them until they kind of laughed at me and told me to change the subject. Could youm please pray for me that when another opprotunity comes that I can me ready to talkto them.

Thanks and pray for me,
Gabriela Gonzales

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On November 17, 2008 @ 5:05 pm Gabriela Gonzales said:

Hi Greg,
I gave my life to Christ on Friday night after seeing the skit about the girl in the room with the demons. I feel like that because I have a hard time with self confidence. I am really down on myself and I am starting to pray and ask God to help me. Today at school, at lunch I asked my friends where they thought they were going when they died. My friend Sam said heaven and my other two friends Rebecca and Olivia said that they didn’t believe in heaven. Sam is a christian so she helped me “shred the gnar.” They told me that they believed that heaven was a dream and that when we died we would become fairies or sprites. I talked to them until they kind of laughed at me and told me to change the subject. Could you please pray for me that when another opprotunity comes that I can me ready to talk
to them.

Thanks and pray for me,
Gabriela Gonzales

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On November 17, 2008 @ 5:30 pm Danae Pruit said:

I went to D2S this past weekend and learned about “Shreddin the Gnar!”
Sunday night I texted my friend and neighbor, Arlexis, just talking about random stuff. I wasn’t sure how to start talking about God, but then it must have been a God thing because he sent me a “forward” about God. So I asked him what he believed in and he told me he believed in God but not Jesus. I told him then what i believed and all about the GOSPEL. All in between the text messages I was praying God would open his heart and be more powerful that the demons around him. After an hour and a half of the Lord speaking through me in text messages he came to the conclusion he wanted to ask Jesus into his heart! The next day after school when we got home I made sure to ask if he really believed he was a sinner and that Jesus came to die for his sin. No sooner, did I lead him through a prayer where Jesus came into his life, right in the middle of our neighborhood! God is so amazing! Now we as Christians have a new brother in Christ and Satan lost that battle! The Lord is amazing! Arlexis is going to start coming to church with me and my sister so he can grow in his faith! Please pray for this new Christian!

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On November 17, 2008 @ 5:43 pm Danae Pruit said:

I went to D2S this past weekend and learned about “Shreddin the Gnar!”
Sunday night I texted my friend and neighbor, Arlexis, just talking about random stuff. I wasn’t sure how to start talking about God, but then it must have been a God thing because he sent me a “forward” about God. So I asked him what he believed in and he told me he believed in God but not Jesus. I told him then what i believed and all about the GOSPEL. All in between the text messages I was praying God would open his heart and be more powerful that the demons around him. After an hour and a half of the Lord speaking through me in text messages he came to the conclusion he wanted to ask Jesus into his heart! The next day after school when we got home I made sure to ask if he really believed he was a sinner and that Jesus came to die for his sin. No sooner, did I lead him through a prayer where Jesus came into his life, right in the middle of our neighborhood! God is so amazing! Now we as Christians have a new brother in Christ and Satan lost that battle! The Lord is amazing! Arlexis is going to start coming to church with me and my sister so he can grow in his faith! Please pray for this new Christian!

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On November 17, 2008 @ 5:44 pm Danae Pruit said:

I went to D2S this past weekend and learned about “Shreddin the Gnar!”
Sunday night I texted my friend and neighbor, Arlexis, just talking about random stuff. I wasn’t sure how to start talking about God, but then it must have been a God thing because he sent me a “forward” about God. So I asked him what he believed in and he told me he believed in God but not Jesus. I told him then what i believed and all about the GOSPEL. All in between the text messages I was praying God would open his heart and be more powerful that the demons around him. After an hour and a half of the Lord speaking through me in text messages he came to the conclusion he wanted to ask Jesus into his heart! The next day after school when we got home I made sure to ask if he really believed he was a sinner and that Jesus came to die for his sin. No sooner, did I lead him through a prayer where Jesus came into his life, right in the middle of our neighborhood! God is so amazing! Now we as Christians have a new brother in Christ and Satan lost that battle! The Lord is amazing! Arlexis is going to start coming to church with me and my sister so he can grow in his faith! Please pray for this new Christian!!

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On November 17, 2008 @ 9:04 pm Emily said:

Dear Greg,
Hey, my name is Emily and I am 13 years old. My dad is a pastor at this Ethiopian church. I always thought that I was a christian and that I had accepted Christ into my life. I knew all the verses and just about everything you could learn about Christianity. I figured that I was destined for heaven. On Friday I was showed that saying a prayer was not enough. I had to actually believe. Well I did and it has changed my life for ever.
The next day I got to lead 3 people to Christ myself. Two were complete strangers that I met while walking around the 16th street mall. The other one was my dear friend Alex. I called him during the cell phone challenge. He told me that he was at Sears and had time to loose. We talked about the Gospel for a little bit. His dad never played a big roll in his life, so hearing about an Everlasting father with that much love really touched him. Then right there in Sears he decided that he wanted Jesus Christ to be his savior. During this whole time he was just balling. I myself almost started to cry too. Now Alex is full strong with Christ, right along side me. I shared already with one person the GOSPEL at school today.
The only thing that bummed me out was the fact that my friend Victoria couldn’t be there. She says that she has a relationship with Christ, but the things she does makes me think other wise. You see I found out about 3 weeks ago that she was cutting. I just couldn’t believe. Because of this everything that was about cutting, especially the skit just made me cry. I was wondering if there was a place that I could show her that skit. I think that if she say it that she would be changed.
The very last question is how do I start a conversation with a Buddhist? Selina is one, and I’m not sure how to talk with her about it.
Well thanks for listing to my long whatever you call it, please respond.
Emily

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Emily,
Check out this D2S resource on How to Share Your Faith with a Buddhist.

http://www.dare2share.org/buddhists/

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On November 17, 2008 @ 11:26 pm Sarah Logan said:

Dear Greg,
This weekend was so totally awesome and super and just amazing and wonderful! I learned so much and that drama was SO real to me! I was a cutter and then that was like oh, I should probably stop! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It made me believe again that there was hope and that life doesn’t have to be that way. It was so awesome!!! I can’t thank you enough!!!! After I was talking to my friend Krista tonight, who was a Buddhist and we were talking and she was explaining Nirvana and then my friend started talking about joy. We were leaving young life and when we were in the car she asked about the GOSPEL and after listening she was like wow, i’ve never heard that. Then she decided to put her faith and trust in Jesus and it was just so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!! Now we have decided to start our own little Bible study and learn more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s just way super!! Thank you so much!!! You will never know how grateful I am to you for SO many things!!! You’re just awesome!!!! I’m praying for you that you keep it up!!! Could you please pray for Krista that she will just grow strong in the Lord? Thanks so much!!!!!

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On November 18, 2008 @ 9:20 pm Phil McClay said:

Greg

I posted my 5 friends with whom I am shreddin the gnar. The first friend is actually one of our teenagers who I shared the gospel with Saturday night of D2S in DC. Other teens in our youth group shared with him days after D2S and then my son had the priveldge of leading him to Jesus a few days ago!! It is amazing how many of our teens are shreddin the gnar and even more exciting how many want to disciple these new converts and take them deep in the Word and in their faith! I will be going to breakfast with another one of my friends this Friday and plan to shredd the gnar…I called him during the cell phone challenge but just got voicemail. As youth leader I want to be a blessing and encouragement to our teens by setting an example and shreddin the gnar with my friends.

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On November 18, 2008 @ 9:30 pm Leslie Trejo said:

This was my 6th and final year attending the Dare 2 Share conference in Denver Colorado as a student and the drama friday night was the most eye opening for me and alot of my youth group, it hit home for some of them and im glad it did because they have decided to stop the cutting and doubting themselves and god and live 100% for Jesus Christ.So thank you Greg, Zane, Dewy, and the entire Dare 2 Share crew for everything you guys did

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On November 19, 2008 @ 5:35 pm meleanie conner said:

I need a little help!!! One of my friends says that she believes in everything but she chooses not to cause she looks and sees all of these people who say they are christians but then they go off and drink, party, do drugs, etc. and she said that they were hypocrites. I don’t know what to say to that!!! If possible could you email me and tell me some ideas?

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On November 19, 2008 @ 5:37 pm meleanie conner said:

oh by thw way my email is butterfly2004mc@yahoo.com. Thank you soooooo much.

-Meleanie

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On November 19, 2008 @ 6:17 pm SaraBeth said:

Greg, I think your resource, “Venti Jesus Please” is a great way to Shred the Gnar with teen friends. I’ve been wondering though…is there any chance D2S might work on a movie version of the book (right, I know financial resources are unlimited there at D2S). But I am worried that those kids who are not readers will get left out. Before I gave the book to some of my high schoolers, we started reading a couple chapters together in Sunday School. I was suprised at how many words they didn’t know and how many concepts seemed beyond them. They totally enjoyed what they were reading, but I began to wonder how much the average teen was going to be able to understand. In such an image driven culture, your Gospel journey curriculum is great. My students are able to understand a great deal from Gospel Journey, but is D2S working on visual media that students could give to friends that might open the door to sharing the gospel?

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On November 20, 2008 @ 11:08 am Connor said:

Hey Greg!
Thanks so much for this past weekend in Denver! It gave me exactly the awakening I needed! I’ve already started shredding the gnar with some of my friends and I totally love it! And I’ve started memorizing bible verses too! Your words also spoke to my heart. I’ve only been a disciple of Jesus for a very short time but in that time He has revealed to me what my gifts are: one loving people with an unconditional passion and two music. He has taught me to love everybody the way Jesus loves them. I do struggle with it sometimes but then I remember this thing I read in a book and it keeps on track. And the whole music thing, well I pretty much think, breathe, and feel in music. Most of my friends don’t understand and some even criticize me for it but I know God gave me these gifts for a reason. To glorify Him! Thanks again!

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On November 20, 2008 @ 11:09 am Connor said:

And if you could e-mail me and help me out with some ideas to help me shred the gnar more that would be great!

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On November 20, 2008 @ 5:18 pm brandon said:

Can u give me your e-mail so i can talk to you guys about something

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On November 21, 2008 @ 9:22 pm Scott Bean said:

Well Greg, two amazing thing have happened this week, and neather of them would have happened if it wasn’t for D2S.
First: One of the people I was trying to talk to out of my 5 rides the bus with me. On Tusday morning I had my Dare 2 Share book with me on the bus and desided that would be a good time to talk with Josh (one of my 5) only to find out that I talk to loud, and that i was the only Christion on the bus. Only a few seconds into what I had to say I saw that nearly everyone on the buss was glaring at me. At that point i felt like i had shredded the gnar right into a pool of hungery sharks that all wanted a piece of me. So i stopped talking. The only one that had been listening the whole time was my friend Hoshi(who i that was already christion)and when i stopped talking she told me she wanted to hear more. well to make a long story short, God put me in a place to share with someone i had no idea nedded it.
Second: Today i was walking around and in a parkinglot i saw a woman who was trying to get some money for gas to get home. I stopped and gave her $5 (because thats what i had) and as she walked away i thought “you idiot you just missed your chance.” I had the chance to talk to her about the love of Jesus and i missed it. Well later that night i was telling my mom about it and a guy overherd me and handed me some money just saying “God has provided for me too”. when i got tho the car i look and what he had gave me. $10, and i almost cried. So now im going to take that and give it again. I saw this as god telling me that i had another chance to tell someone the good news, and thats what im going to do.

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On November 24, 2008 @ 8:04 pm Paul Loiacono said:

greg and zane:
my name is paul loiacono and i am a member of Zero Gravity Ministries out of Edmeston, New York. i went to your youth conference in washington d.c and i can honestly say it changed my life. i orginally went to see D.C. and hang out with my friends. that changed awfully quick. i realized the first night during the drama skit that this was really a big deal and i have known people that have gone throught that and are still going through it and vowed right then and there to tell them about christ. we were in the conference room of our hotel and we were talking about what happened that day and we all got pretty emotional about it because it opened alot of our eyes. the next day after the conference, we went back to the hotel room to decompress what had happened that day. i learned right then that my friend matt gould, a kid that came to my youth group and church on a bet from his parents that he couldnt do it, got saved right then. my youth pastor Shawn Conboy said to matt, “you ready to shredd the gnar and share your testimony with the adults?” and he said, “yes sir!” he went into the other room where the adults were having a private conference and shredded the gnar. he came pack a half hour later and we continued our conversation. then, a man by the name of brandon clark, the most unreligious man in the whole group who came with his wife to be a driver, came in the room, pointed to matt and sayed to all of us, “you! because of you and your testimony, i just accepted jesus christ as my lord and savior!” everyone broke into tears and we were all just very amazed at gods work. well, god wasnt done yet. far from it actually. i saw how my life related to these two people and, although i had been saved already, i wasnt doing the things i should have been doing. i went to shawn and chris, our guest pastor from binghamton, and said, “im done. im done living just one big lie. i was saved at 6 because i was bored, but never really meant a minute of it. until now. i want to live the way god inteded but i know that only jesus could do that, but i want to show people what greg and you (shawn) have shown me.” and shawn said to me “im gonna hold you to that. you ready to shredd the gnar with the adults?” and i said “oh yeah!” i went and shredded the gnar with the adults in a hotel room at 2:00 in the morning and made alot of them cry with my testimony. afterward, they all grouped around me and prayed for me. it was the most amazing feeling ive ever had to that day. well god wasnt done then either. i found out that a bunch of people had been led to christ while i was talking with the adults and more when i was sleeping. we got up the next morning, planning on going to the monuments before going back to new york, but god had other plans. we were in the parking lot, and my youth pastor brought me over and said to me, “would you shredd the gnar with zach here?” zach was my best friend, so i said “yeah lets do it right now!” so, we went behind our van and i went through the gospel the way you taught us and he said right there ” i want to be saved” so i led him to christ right there. after its over, i look over and my other best friend hunter is crying in the back of the van. he sayed to my youth pastor “i want to be saved too” so i led him to christ also. i had two girls named susan arnold and mallory eckert come up to me and hug me and tell me im amazing at shreddin the gnar, which made me feel pretty good. we spent between and hour and two hours, i cant remember how long, in that parking lot sharing christ. well, god still wasnt done yet either! on the way home, we got a call that my friends James and Susan Arnold’s dad was on his way to albany hospital, which either meant he was getting a kidney transplant, or he was probably dieing because something went wrong with his kidney. the woman that was driving the van that susan was in was just praying for somewhere to pull over so susan could be with her brother. out of nowhere, a paintball arena parking lot shows up so we could pray for them and switch cars. after the tears stopped flowing, we got back on the road and about a half hour, my pastor, Jay Henderson, got a cell phone call and said, “James, Susan, your dads got a kidney waiting for him at Albany!” that hit us like a bombshell. the man was on the waiting list for 2 years and gets the transplant right as we were coming back from a life-changing trip. even then, god wasnt done yet! i called my friend Patrick Jarvis on Mallory’s cell phone and told him what had happened during the weekend. Patrick has a bible study group in albany and he had 6 kids that were interested but skeptical about jesus. i learned a week later that those six kids were later saved. alot of people were coming up to me and telling me that they couldnt shredd the gnar. i told them, if i can help lead 6 kids to christ over speakerphone, i think you can do it with one person. our final count for salvations over 3 weeks was 41 spiritual salvations, 39 teens and 2 adults, and one physical salvation in the form of a kidney transplant. thank you for all of your hard work and i pray every day for you and your ministry and hope that it will continue to change lives like it has mine and my friends. thank you,
Paul Loiacono

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Greg Reply:
November 25th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Wow Paul…Wow! That’s all I got…Wow!

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Allie Reisinger Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:54 am
Oh my gosh that is amazing! 39 teens?! wow thats definetly shreddin the Gnar!

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Jess Walter Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Nice work, man! God definitely had/has great plans for you! Don’t stop at just 41 people. Keep it goin’! -

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On November 26, 2008 @ 12:52 pm Ryanne Ritchey said:

Hi Greg,
I was very blessed to be able to attend the D2S conference in Denver with my church youth group.I just want to say that you,Zane, And Dewey do a great job with this program! I had never wanted to talk about my faith to anyone before I went to D2S. I was afraid they might judge me or not want to be my friends anymore. After being at that conference I am now a changed girl for God. During the cellphone challenge I called many of my friends,but only one answered. So she and I talked and she accepted! Now I talk to all my friends about what they beleive,without fear! Not all of them want to hear it,but I ask you to pray for me. That I will stand strong in th Lord!
God bless and Happy Thanksgiving,
Ryanne Ritchey

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On November 26, 2008 @ 1:43 pm Reagan Ritchey said:

Hi Greg,My name is reagan and I attended d2s in Denver. I never have had a problem with sharring my faith but d2s really opened my eyes.At my church I am known to be the evagelistic one and I am offten talked about in adult service by the evangelistic pastor. When I show at livestock shows my friends tease me and call me Dr.Phill for going up to complete strangers and sharring my faith with them.I don’t let their smirks offend me.After d2s it made me think what were my intentions for doing those things.It was for my reputation at church and then I realized that church only goes so far in life. After that I was changed and my youth pastor challenged me to memorize the book of Phillipians wih him.He told if you memorize the book of Phillipians faster than me I will buy you a season pass to WaterWorld! Well shortly after that I called him and told him that I was done with book of Phillipians.Its short and simple,I WON!!! And just to make sure I really had memorized all that he made recite the book in front of the whole youth! But I am glad he did now that entire book has influenced my life in a huge way, for the right reasons! God Bless, Reagan P.S. please e-mail me I have some questions that to be answered.

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On November 28, 2008 @ 8:59 pm Courtney Cowan said:

greg

I was so exicted about Dare 2 Share and it really helped me to get over my fear of being judged about having a relationship with God. I went to school on monday and my friend Kate was upset over her ex liking me. Insted of getting upset back I told her that I was in that same problem. We really connected and she broke down in the middle of the student center saying that no one loved her. I then hugged her and said that God loves her and nothing can change that. Ihanded her the journey book that we got at Dare 2 Share and she told me that she wasn’t christan but i told her that you don’t have to be christan to read it. i don’t know how it all happened but it was awesome! ! ! Thnak you soooooo much for what you do and totally keep it up! ! ! Tcho

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On December 2, 2008 @ 6:20 pm Connor McFarland said:

Greg and Zane
The most amazing thing in the world just happened to me. The other night, I was just lying in bed one night and I saw this picture of my older brother and I in my head (we’re as close as a brother and sister can be. He’s like my best friend but he moved to college so I don’t get to talk to him much). Anyway, he and I we’re sitting together and he had his arm around me and we were laughing. Then I heard this voice kind of in my head telling me that He loved me so much and He could be everything I needed now that my brother was gone. He told me that I should adore Him as much as my brother because He was so awesome. I couldn’t even speak for like an hour. I just lay there picking worship songs off of my IPod to try and communicate to Him what I was feeling. I felt the grace and mercy and love of Jesus filling my heart up so much that I thought it would explode. It was the coolest thing ever. I was changed for forever. I couldn’t do anything; I was broken and humbled to the point of speechlessness. I don’t even know how to explain it but it showed the true power and might of God. Ever since then I’ve been shown how God sees people. I’ve also been reading the bible so much and I love it! And I’ve been talking to God every time I get a chance! It’s the coolest thing ever. I’ve been sharing His word with my friends because I’m so excited for Him! And I have to thank you both so much. You guys really showed me at the conference in Denver what He could do. I’ve also had a lot of issues with a bad body image and the day after my epiphany happened I was looking at myself in the mirror and I heard that same voice telling me I was fearfully and wonderfully made. It said that God made me exactly the way I am and God doesn’t make mistakes. Now I know I’m His and thatâ€™s fine with me. It’s the most amazing thing in the world to be loved so desperately. Thank you both again so much. I also have a question for you: have either of you ever met your angel?

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On December 12, 2008 @ 7:07 pm Mackenzie said:

i have Shredded the Gnar with my 5 since your Washington DC tour and i think that tour was amazing by the way…really! I have been going to youth group for a year im only in 6th grade! And, I have seen your Gospel Journey with the wiccens and all those religeons. I think your programs you do are amazing and they toughed my heart and I think this is an awesome expirience helping people get saved at such an early time in my life. Hopefully, I can pursue a life in ministry! Shred the Gnar yall!

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On December 22, 2008 @ 12:54 pm Hannah Thomas said:

Dare 2 Share has totally changed me and my whole school …every day we see more people come to know Christ…thanks so much for getting us back on the right track!!

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On December 29, 2008 @ 3:01 pm Kenzie said:

Dear Greg,
I went to your Washington D.C. Dare2Share thing as an attempt to see my friends. It turned into so much more than I possibly expected! The first night, the skit about the cutter totally blew my mind and I was excited to see the next meeting on Saturday. It was so cool! We came from Edmeston which is a tiny town in upper NY, and I was so brought out of my comfort zone already, but then I was told we were going to do a can drive, I was so suprised, but I went with it. It was so amazing, though! My group I was in went to one house and the family turned us away. At another, the family greeted us and was supportive and it was awesome! We had so many people led to Christ on our trip, too! In a parking lot, in our hotel at 2 a.m., but I didnt have enough courage to do it. But that didnt mean the trip was a waste. We got back to Edmeston, and weeks later, we had youth group, and I accepted Jesus because I got enough courage to do it. And now, I shred the gnar with people in my school so they know how i felt when I did! Thanks a bunch! -Kenz

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On January 31, 2009 @ 8:59 pm Darylsue Lockhart said:

I have been trying to get my friends in my youth group for a long time. They keep putting it off, or changing the subject, but i have not given up yet, and i am not going to. I beleive that GOD has something good for me to do and i am not going to stop until get it done. Thank you so much for inspiring me to do this. I have been putting it off to because i knew that they weren’t going to listen, but i have a feeling they will come around to it. I am looking forward to next years!!!
–darylsue–

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On February 1, 2009 @ 6:42 am Allie Reisinger said:

I went to Dare2Share and during when we were trying to get cans (which we only got one house to even open the door) the one lady we got gave us lots of cans and when we asked her if there was anything we could pray about she started crying and she said that her daughter had died 5 months earlier and that her husband wasnt letting the lady see the kids. and thankfully she and her daughter were christians.

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On February 1, 2009 @ 6:44 am jesusrox24 said:

I called my friend and witnessed to her the first time this weekend. I was scared to death, and by all means it didn’t go smoothly, but i will not give up on her that easy…ill keep trying. This was my 3rd year going, and it gets better every year. Even though we had doors slammed in our faces with responses like:”My wife does all the praying in this household.” and “After i die i will be in a grave.” we didn’t give up, i would like to think that I planted a seed in all those people. And i keep praying to God that I don’t just loose touch after a while. Thank you for what you have done. Oh and i also decided that when I grow up, i would like to go into youth evangelism…just thought you might want to know. Great job in Columbus!!!!

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On February 1, 2009 @ 12:31 pm stephanie amador said:

Dare2Share was amazing im never going to forget it. It has been a long time since i’ve had an encounter with jesus the way me and my friends did at Dare2Share. This was my first year and it was great I learned so much and I feel like I grew so much closer God. When we did the challenge to call a friend to invite them into our family in Christ i desided to call one of my best friends, Harley. I couldn’t realy talk to him because he was on his way out the door when i called him but i felt like he was starting to feel unconfortable when i told him what we were doing. He’s a great person and i love him so much but he really needs Jesus in his life, so i’m not gonna give up on him and some how with Jesu’s help i know im going to make a difference in his life through Jesus.Thank you so much for all you did for us. You all did fantastic and you impacted soo many lives including mine. Again thanks for everything and i hope to come back next year!!

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On February 1, 2009 @ 12:36 pm Katelynn Buchwalter said:

I called my friend today after church, because I didn’t have her number at the conferance. I knew she wasn’t a Christian but I have mentioned it to her before but she wasn’t too interested. So, I gave her a call and we talked for a bit. I asked her if she knew where she would go after she died and she didn’t, so I talked to her and explained everything to her. Then, I asked her if she understood and wanted to pray and we did. Thank you SO much for teaching me how to share my faith. Those were two of the best days of my life. I hope to come again next year, thanks again!!

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On February 1, 2009 @ 12:37 pm Jordan Crum said:

Hey Greg I have a sweet story to share with you! It’s a little long but please read the whole thing. My buddy Jon and I were paired up during the can collecting, and after we had finished our route we were very disappointed. We were really excited to engage in an intense conversation with someone about God and tell them how great it is to have a relationship with God. So we asked our van driver if we could stay a little while longer. She said that we still had to eat and get back to the convention center. Jon and I proposed that we skip dinner and keep can collecting and trying to save people. She said it was a good idea but to ask the youth leader who was in the other van. We quickly ran out and asked the other van. Unfortunately, too many of the teens wanted to eat. We said saving a soul is definately better than any meal. Our youth leader, Scott, said that we could stay another fifteen minutes. At the very last house that we visited, Jon and I found ourselves face to face with a guy dressed in all black. He was about 6′3″ and had a strange look in his eyes. He said he had no canned foods, but when we asked him if he knew he was going to heaven when he died, he paused, turned his music off and asked us to step inside. Jon was so excited he practically jumped in, but I stayed in the doorway so that the van could see us. He told us his name was Kyle and that “by your Bible’s standards I’m going to Hell, but according to Jesus I’m going to heaven.” We talked for a little while longer and told Kyle that there are no condradictions between the Bible and Jesus. The conversation went back and forth for a while until it turned from scripture to Kyle himself. He shared that in the past month he had been declared insane, and that in the past few months had developed a bloodlust. He said he was becoming a very dangerous person to be around. Surprisingly we weren’t scared at all. God was in that doorway with us the whole time. We got back onto the topic of God and he asked if we knew what a moral compass was and that the Bible says we are all born with one. Jon said he didn’t know what it was, but before I realized it I said “Yeah, I know what you’re talking about.” I really had no idea what he said but I know that God did because a few seconds later I remembered the Bible says all men are born with the knowledge of right and wrong. God spoke through Jon and I for twenty minutes and at the end of the conversation, Kyle said he would think about praying and developing a relationship with God. GOD TRULY IS AMAZING.

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On February 1, 2009 @ 12:40 pm Kaylyn said:

Wow… Dare2Share was amazing!!! i am so God high right now and have been since friday. i am bound and determined to keep the energy and use it to witness to others. It’s like… i have an olympic torch and i wanna light up others worlds.. so first i gotta teach them about the bible… which is like handing them a torch, and then asking them to let god in their life is like lighting it. I was ranting on and on about wut i learned at dare 2 share to my boyfriend (who also attended) and he says that i am just a god loving lunatic. But he is the one who encouraged me to write this… So thanks Eric!!! But fantastic job… the music was powerful and amazing and stuck in my head. i always considered myself a quiet worshiper, but i gave the hands up a try and was swept off my feet by the power and glory of God.

O HAPPY DAY…. HAPPY DAAAAAYYYYY YOU’VE WASHED MY SINS AWAY!!!!!

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That song was AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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On February 1, 2009 @ 12:58 pm Ashley Sawyer said:

Greg,
Hi, my name is Ashley Sawyer, I’m going to be nineteen years old in a few days, and I’ve been a believer for as long as I can remember. I just want to take the time to share with you (and anyone else reading this) my story.
I am blessed to have two best friends. We’re definately the “only in movies” group of friends. There’s the blonde (let’s call her Sarah), the red head (let’s call her Susie), and the brunette (me, Sally). We each have our own differences that we bring to one common friendship and love. We have our ups and downs, but we get through life one step at a time, hand in hand, standing and facing it all. Well, just as we thought life was going great and we were at the peek of our friendship, Sarah had terrible news to share with us. She had been sick for a while and was fighting this battle in her life, struggling for just that: her life. Susie and I had been continuous goers of our youth group at church. And we invited Sarah to come, and she did. But when she told us she was sick, we were really sad and hurt and torn. She told us that more than one doctor told her that she had Leukemia. They told her she would get really bad really fast, and that she would probably only have a year or a few months left to live. All the doctors had to do was get her to come back and get blood tests to confirm their beliefs. We.were.crushed. This perfect move-like friendship we had, it felt cursed and destroyed. But it ended up only making us stronger… and as soon as Sarah started coming to youth with Susie and I, we prayed for her. We prayed for healing in her body. God’s word says that “by the stripes of Jesus Christ, we are healed.” Three or four weeks later, she came back to youth. She had a tear in her eye and a piece of paper in her hand. She unfolded it and started to tell us that she didn’t have Leukemia, :*) and the note she was holding was a letter from the nurse saying that the doctors don’t know how it happened, that they had never seen anything like it. Her cancer was just GONE. Our prayers were answered, and our best friend was healed. And we are all very blessed to be celebrating her nineteenth birthday TODAY!!
Heavenly Father, you are so awesome. You have touched our lives in huge ways, and we feel that even the greatest praise and thanks would never be enough to show you how much we love you for it. Thank you for my best friends, Lord, and thank you for this wonderful and amazing chance to live. I will live for you all of my days, until I meet you in heaven someday. I love you so much, Daddy. Amen*
And another funny story… after the final gathering this weekend, my youth group and I went to our cars to head home. Some how my lights were left on in my car (I’m one of the two who drove). I didn’t touch them and I know no one else touched them, but they were on the whole day and killed my battery. Our youth leader went down to the front and asked to borrow some jumper cables. The lady said she’d get them to him soon. Fifteen or so minutes passed and our youth leader went back down there to ask again. The lady apologized and said that the security is held up at the event let-out and that it would be a while before she could get us some cables. Well my friend Renee and I had the idea of putting our faith into action, right then and there. So we gathered our youth together and told everyone to place their hands on my car, and that we were going to pray for my car. RIGHT after all of us had placed our hands on the car and BARELY began praying, a random stranger who was walking by asked if we needed jumper cables. D Oh how God works in amazing ways! We got the car started and on the road in five minutes after that. I just think that was really cool how, as soon as we put our faith into action, God rewarded and blessed us.
Thank you for everything you and everyone else at dare2share have done for us. Lives have been changed and are continually being changed. My little sister who is 13 comes to youth with me now because I took that leap of faith and invited her to dare2share last year. This year she confessed that if it weren’t for me inviting her to that and to the youth group in general, she wasn’t planning on being here today. So, again, thank you. Thank you so much. I rejoice not only in what you or I do in reaching out to others and changing their lives by sharing the truth, but that our names are written in heaven, and we’re continually bringing more of God’s children home to Him.
God bless, we love you all and we’ll see you next year,
Ashley*

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On February 1, 2009 @ 1:15 pm Trevor McDonald said:

I had such an amazing time at D2S! It really opened my eyes. I am a Christian, but that helped even more! I was struggling with the urges to have sex and some other stuff, but now I know that it isn’t what Jesus wants me to do. In the cell phone challenge i called my friend that had said that sports were more important then church. I didn’t know how to explain it to him then. I do now though. Just today my other friend i invited to church came and I was so excited! I can’t wait to share the GOSPEL with my section in choir. I really like that i am section leader and can tell everyone about my super-awesome experience! I recently did a fundraiser at my church too. I came up with a fundraiser for Cancer and I raised $1,000. I then visited the James Center in Columbus. It was an amazing experience! Well, I would like you to pray for me. I am trying to get to do the fundraiser in my school now. So thank you for all you do for us teens. God Bless!!!

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On February 1, 2009 @ 1:21 pm adrienne owers said:

*I talked to my friend who is an atheist (but still celebrates Christmas for an obvious reason)and i could tell she was mortified of dying when i asked her where she would go when she died because she had no answer. I feel as if i planted a seed in her head and that god will water and take care of. You know, strengthen her awareness that there maybe in an infinent reality far of that there actually might be more to life than the latest song or the newest styles.
*Knowing that god can be my shield empowers me and urges me to do more than what ive bin doing because he protects his children and does not hold doing his will against us.
*my revelations do to this conference: what can anyone do against me that is worst than what will happen if i’m against god almighty? Why should i be so shy and afraid when god is with me and i can ware his armor?
*For the longest time now, the only thing keeping me from fully living for god is my unhealthy addiction to music not worshiping the him. This weekend, God almighty took away that addiction and smited it to call me back home and i can live fully for him now! And at invincible, listening to Fee and Leeland made me raise my hands to show all the praises lifting to the lord for the first time and it broke away the shy barrier keeping me from showing my faith. To god be the glory forever!
Sincerely Ada Mach

P.S. You did an amazing job speaking and im looking forward to next year

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On February 1, 2009 @ 1:39 pm Elaina said:

I just returned from Dare to share last night, when we we’re asked to think of a friend that we can share our faith to on the very first night God laid it on my heart my friend Ian. We haven’t been friends for very long but we talk often. He talks about how his life is ‘hell’ and how he is depressed. I was talking to him online before the conference and tried to talk to him but his computer shut down and he logged off. I’m talking to him right now, and for the fist time he is opening up. Please pray, I’ll keep you updated.
Thanks,
Elaina

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On February 1, 2009 @ 1:42 pm J.Owen. said:

I was there in colombus and i have actually been trying yo talk to them about christ but you guys showed me better ways of how to and i really love how you guys made it in a new 21st century way (shieding the GNAR, the movie clips,ect). it was sooo amazing. THANK YOU.

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On February 1, 2009 @ 2:56 pm Jess said:

greg!
i just went to the dare2share in columbus ohio! and i loved it! i just shredd-ed the gnar like just like a hour ago! and see his name is joey and i just felt like i should talk to him about Jesus. and joey thanked me alot for talking to him about it. and he said he loved me and that he never wants to loose his bestfriend (ha thats me!) yeah
I loved dare2share! i so wanna go next year!!! it really helped me to figure out how to ’shred the gnar’ so now it seems so much easier. i am so happy that i went this weekend. i had a awesome time. i really enjoyed the singing part! i loved Fee and Leeland! they is soo cool! (: i just loved the whole experience and i hope Fee and Leeland can come to Columbus next year!
Love and God Bless,
Jess

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On February 1, 2009 @ 3:12 pm ilovemygod012 said:

Hey,
I loved Invincible and everything about it! I am definatly going next year to Blaze! Shred the Gnar! I go to this Youth Group and are motto is Shred the Gnar..it’s incredible what you guys do and after this I love everything and I want to know even more then what you told us at the Dare2Share conference.
Shreddin’ the Gnar
ilovemygod012

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On February 1, 2009 @ 3:18 pm ilovemygod012 said:

Oh, during the trip when we went out to get canned foods we were actually done doing what streets we were given and we were getting ready to eat when we saw this guy that was across the street and he was stuck in the snow so all of our guys that were in our van jumped out and got him out and then another person just like right across the street from him was stuck and she called us over and we rescued 2 cars that were stuck with like 10 people and only in like 5 minutes. It was amazing!

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wow 2 cars. Thats awesome and when my youth group went out to collect cans one of the groups were walking to a house and they heard tires rubbing against the snow. They ended up pushing a car out of the drive.

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February 2nd, 2009 at 10:34 am
Thats sweet! I never got to help but 3 of my friends jumped out of 1 of the vans to help get a car through a stop sine when we were going to eat.

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On February 1, 2009 @ 4:00 pm B. Wright said:

Today when i got home from dare to share i started to text my friend. After a while i asked him if he had ever heard the saying ” Shreddin’ The Gnar” and he said no. But that wasnt all he said he also said that it was weird. I texted him back saying well no it really isn’t that weird. I told him what it meant and when he texted me back and it said weird again. I asked him if he believed in God and he said Duh! His father is a paastor but still I didnt no if he truly believed. Which I still don’t no because he had a weird tone to the text. Dare 2 share meant alot and i ahve decided to change some of my old ways. THANK-YOU!

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On February 1, 2009 @ 4:04 pm Josh Messersmith said:

Hey Greg! how are you doing? i was at Dare 2 Share and i came with my awesome pastor Geoff Grow and we came with 60 People in our group and had a really awsome time at the Convention Center with you. We can’t wait to come back next year with you all and have another awesome experience with you all. Here is a little about my self, i am going to be 19 on March 17 and i am currently leading alot of younger kids at a christian mininstry center called The Steps and we usually have around 75 to 140 kids coming in to get closer to jesus and we also have alot of gaming systems where they can play for free. I have worked there for about 7 years and im about to graduate school and go into the army soon. Every Tuesday, Thursday we are open from 6-8:30 and on Friday we are open from 7-10. We go on alot of mission trips with older student and go door to door telling about the gospel. in 2005 we went to Mexico and saw a man who had passes away trying to get power for his family. we changed alot of lives when we were there. in 2006 we went to Mississippi where we had changed alot of people and helped rebuild houses ruined by the Hurricane Katrina. Then in 2007 we went to North Carolina where we stayed at a camp that was really run down and mowed the yard, cleaned the pool, and helped others through out the mountains. Then last year we went to Shipshawanna, Indiana and redone a camp there, in which i weed eated for 5 hours straight. we are hoping to go this year to New York in the inner City and talk to strangers like you did on the strip in Vegas. We are also trying to go to Huston, Texas to do a mission trip there and also go to Joel Osteen’s church. We are hoping to change lives as much as we can every day at a time. I had a great experience at the convention and the thing that helped me the most was when you taught us how to talk to people and share our faith with others and to lead others closer to god. My work is at the Steps also consists of a thing every year where we go to different city’s and do a thing called Faith Fest and set up inflatibles and give out free food to everyone. I also liked when you taught us how to pray and how to live closer to god. Thanks for a great time with you and i hope to see you at Blaze Next year at the Convention Center in 2010. Have a safe trip home and god bless you and your family.

Your Friend, Josh Messersmith

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On February 1, 2009 @ 4:58 pm Gina Reed said:

I’m going to Shred the Gnar with these 5 people but i need lots of prayer.Thanks for showing me that i don’t need to be scared to share my faith=)

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February 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Shreddin the gnar!!! I’m praying for you Gina… remember, with God we can do all things.

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February 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I am praying 4 you too. Keep Shreddin the Gnar… Pray 2 God cuz none of us can do this on our own.. And pray for others as we all try to turn this world to Christ!!!!

-ur sister in Christ

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On February 1, 2009 @ 5:52 pm Jessica said:

OMGee!!! I absolutly LOVED dare to share….you guys made everything soooo clear to me and all the dramas were great. I loved the bands – fee and leeland and hope to see them next year because our church already has reserved spots…this conference touched everyone…all six thousand of us and i think that this has incouraged mannnnnnnny teens to spread the “G.O.S.P.E.L”. I am definetly now going to spread the gospel as much as I can so please pray for me as i spread God’s love. I Love Greg, Zane, and Derwin. Zane your wife is soooooo pretty!!! You guys are sooo cute together!
Always shreddin’ the gnar!
Jessica.

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On February 1, 2009 @ 7:25 pm Megan said:

Hi, my name is Megan. When I got home I decided to “Shred the Gnar” With a great friend of mine who also happens to be my cousin. His name is Joseph and I also called him during the cell phone challenge. Joe has always been atheist..For as long as I can remember. I recall one time he was over at my house and we had been discussing Christianity and all that it could do for him if he would just accept Jesus Christ into his life. Well, He was completely rude about it all. He even tried to throw a Bible that was sitting on my kitchen table. Since that time, I’ve never quite had the guts to talk to him about Jesus. During the cell phone challenge I called him and..Well..I graduated PU..He hung up on me and told me if I wanted to stay close, then I would never call him like that again. Joe is my best friend. I prayed all night last night asking Jesus to give me the strength to do what is right. This morning I woke up and I just knew it was the day to tell him. So I called, and this time instead of “puking” it onto him the first thing I asked was “If you were to die tomorrow, where would you go?” He started crying. He said he didn’t know. So, I shared the Gospel. I “Shredded the Gnar”. Joseph accepted Jesus Christ into his life this morning. I am so happy and I couldn’t thank you enough for helping me with this. I’ve been struggling to talk to him for years now.

God Bless,
Megan

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On February 2, 2009 @ 6:25 am alisha said:

I had an awesome weekend at d2s!! I enjoyed it even more so than last year!!! When we went out to collect cans last yr. I pretty much was like “I’ll hold the bag and smile real pretty and you guys can talk to the people (they didn’t go for it though). Needless to say, this year, I got yelled at a couple of times because they said that I was “steeling their houses” I told them that they were not quick enough, so ha!! There was also a guy that we met who I would like you to pray for. We went to his house and asked him for cans. He told us that he did not have any cans to give us because he could not aford them himself. He told us that he lived in this house with no heat, had only a few clothes and slept on a very small mattress. The man told us that he was a construction worker who was currently out of work. We began to go through the gospel with him and talk to him. He told us that he was not interested but thanks for the offer. As we were walking away, I ask him to wait a second. I reached inside od our bag a tried to hand him a few cans. I said since you cannot afford them, then you can have some of ours… He declined them saying that there are others who are far worse off than him. We said okay and we will pray for you then and walked away.

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Zech Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
That was an amazing story, I’m sitting in my computer class here at school half in tears at it. You love for God and people has encouraged me. Please continue living for Him!
God Bless,
Zech

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On February 2, 2009 @ 6:51 am Allie Reisinger said:

Ok i got to tell you guys when we were leaving to eat we had to go down a hill to get to the main hill and we heard our youth pastor beeeping at this guy in front of us and all us kids figured out that we were slidding on lce! but this guy in front of us wouldnt move! so we hit his van and thankfully we only dented the back of his van and blew out a window. but we had a serious seatbelt check. and for a lot of us it was our first “wreck”. of and before that we had lost a kid in the convention center!

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February 2nd, 2009 at 10:39 am
My youth group walked past me & 2 other friend of mine. So we pretty much got lost in the convention center. But all of us thought it was fun to be lost.

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Dude thats sweet!

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On February 2, 2009 @ 9:50 am Emily said:

Hey Greg! I had a great weekend at d2s in columbus this weekend. This was my fourth year going, and it amazes me how I always learn something new each year. One of the things that really hit me this year is when Derwin said “If perfection were a requirement for being a Christian, then only Jesus would be a Christian.” Just to hear it put like that was really cool for me, because no matter what happens or how I mess up, Jesus will still love me and He will take me back every time. That is just so amazing… our God is so amazing. I made a commitment on saturday to start shreddin the gnar, and no matter what people think of me I will still love Jesus and live that love out for others to see. I was really disappointed because my youth group had to leave early on saturday night (right before the concert was over), and the past 2 years we have been like the last group to leave the building. Last year I think we literally were the last people except for all you guys that work in d2s. Anyway, I was disappointed because I really wanted to ask you this question but didn’t get to… So I’ll just ask you on here Can Satan read our minds? I mean, I know he puts thoughts in our minds, but can he actually read our minds like God can? I’ve really been wondering that cuz my mom and I were talking about it, but we just weren’t really sure. If you could maybe share some Scripture or something that would help me understand that it would be awesome. Thanks! I hope you having a great week, and thank you so much for serving our Awesome God!!
Keep shreddin the gnar!
Emily

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On February 2, 2009 @ 12:04 pm Rebecca Ashley said:

Hey greg,

i was at dare to share columbus. during the cell phone challenge my friend laughed at me like i was joking

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On February 2, 2009 @ 5:00 pm ShredTheGnarSarah said:

I LOVE to share the “SHREDDIN’ THE GNAR” lesson with my friends(: It’s jkust ssooo much fun. I had SO much fun at Dare2Sgare, it was UNBELIEVABLE! Greg and Zane REALLY inspired me. I’m totally blessed by what GOD has done for me in life(: Keep it up guys!! God bless<3

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On February 2, 2009 @ 6:03 pm Laura Sharp said:

Hi Greg!
My name is Laura Sharp, and I am a sophomore in Marion, Ohio. After attending two Dare 2 Share conferences in Columbus, I started thinking about some of my friends who I was definitely aware that they weren’t in a spiritual walk and relationship with God. One of those friends really stuck out to me(not that she needed salvation the most, because everyone does). I had never heard curse words or bad language come out of her mouth, but I could still tell she needed Christ. So, just to give it a shot, one day at school last year, I asked her if she wanted to spend the night on Saturday, and come to church on Sunday. The only response I got was “no.”Even though she said no, I didn’t give up. Another day we were walking through the school halls before school started. My friend sneezed, and I said “Bless you.” A few seconds later, she said “Laura, you didn’t say ‘God bless you.’” For a second I didn,t know what to say. Then I just started saying things like “Well, I want you to be blessed by God’s love for you,” or “I hope you understsnd that God blesses you every day,” etc. She interruptedme by saying “OK, I don’t want to talk about all this ‘God’ stuff anymore.” So, around Christmas,2008, I thought I should write Bible verses on notecards to give to this friend. The first one I gave to her, she read it, said thank you, I’ll keep this in my locker the rest of the year. Whether or not keeping it in her locker will help, I don’t know. But by reading your books, Greg, and going to Dare to Share, I believe I can make a difference somehow. Thank you for everything you do!

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On February 2, 2009 @ 6:54 pm Kelsey Manes said:

Wow! What an experience dare to Share was this year! I had gone once before but never felt God movie more in me than he did this past weekend. When we went out to collect canned goods in the suburbs of Columbus, I tried to stay positive as we got door after door slammed on our faces. I don’t think that I convinced a single person to give food to the Salvation army. I was feeling a bit discouraged when a good friend of mine, who I kow hasn’t built a relationship with God yet, called me. I told my youth pastor that I had to take a break from collecting cans so I could talk to my friend Dylan. As nervous as I was, I shared the GOSPEL with him, and talked to him about God’s love and my relationship with Christ. He’s interested, curious, and hungry to know more about Christianity. So, even though canned good collecting didn’t work out very well for me, God had other plans in mind. Pray for Dylan as he begins to hear more about the Lord. What an amazing weekend. God bless. :]

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On February 3, 2009 @ 4:41 am GospelGirl7098 said:

Dear Greg and Zane,
My youth group is doing the Gospel journey Maui video series but i had to do a school project and chose to read the book for it. I’m halfway through and got it at the columbus conference on Friday. Anyway, i prayed to God sunday night that i would have the opertunity to share Christ with someone using the book the next day. Turns out, in all 7 of my classes and lunch, someone asked about the book and i got to share the good news of Christ with them! I was estatic after school and even told some of my non-christian friends about my joy. They didn;t understand much, but knew that it ment alot to me. Thanks for this book! And for the Columbus conference. I have a new outlook on life and am on fire for Christ 100%!!!!!

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On February 3, 2009 @ 6:58 am ryan rowe said:

Greg,

I attended dare 2 share last weekend in columbus. It was the first time i had gone but trully a life changing event, im in the process of SHREDDIN THE GNAR!!!!. There is a huge road block in doing so, the friends that i am ding this with happen to be my brothers. I know that they are all belivers but it seems that they have not fully put there trust in god. My little brohter is very open minded about my shreddin the gnar with him, but my older two brothers just wont listen to what i have to say. I called one of my older brothers in the cell phone challenge and i doesnt seem that he was listening to me at all. I will keep on trying to shred the gnar with all my brothers. Thank you very much you, Zane, and everyone else at D2S for preparing me for such a hard challenge/

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On February 3, 2009 @ 7:55 pm DanielaG-L said:

So I was deliverin’ my newspapers, right, and I see this lady walkin’ her dogs, and after talkin’ a while I invite her to church and she seems interested!
So, later on (I’m in a good mood now, right ’cause I’m like “WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!” on the inside) so, anyways I see this guy who I always talk to in the summer when he walks his dog, and I told him ’bout what I did this weekend, and about those girls who fized the one dude’s window, and I could tell it had an impact. And I finally know the dude’s name (it’s enrique {”ehn-reek-cay”}) And I’m thinkin’ “wow! I’m so stoked!!”
And then, it get’s even better, ’cause I see this little girl who always wants to know if she gets the paper today and I say to her “well, you have to ask your mom! look, just go up to her and say (gotta love my way of changing topics) ‘Mom! we gotta get to church! I hear it’s totally cool! It’s the best place to (doing my best impression of you) SHRED THE GNAR!!!!!!!!!’ So come check it out!” and I gave her the info ’bout my church, and she seemed totally hype about it!

I think the one thing I learned is this: A Jesus Jolt can be a good thing at times. Your ministry is like a car. For some of us, it’s a junker that needs to see a repair shop and need a new battery. Others Keep their “car” in good shape, and it runs like a cheetah. For those of you who need new batteries, a Jesus Jolt can fix that. ‘Cause when you have a full battery for a little bit, it gives you the chance to start the car up…Bad news is you need fuel. Good news is, it won’t cost you an arm and a leg. It’s Passion Fuel, and as soon as it’s in the system, you’ll be good to go.
There is one thing you need to know about maintenance: it takes a while to adapt to the change. But if you keep using passion fuel, and don’t slow down for your regular fuel, eventually, you’ll be runnin’ like a cheetah too!

P.S. SHRED THE GNAAAAAAAAARRRR, DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDES!!!!!!!!!

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February 5th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Dude! i LOVE the illustration!!! a Car!! im totally a just like new Mustang GT! Loud and on Fire!

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On February 4, 2009 @ 11:30 am tyler thaxton said:

Dear Mr. Greg,

I just got done shreddin the gnar with my science teacher for 30 min….. It went really well. My whole life I loved God but i never really showed it like zane…. Now im just like him and as craz and i want to thank you both for that…. This past weekend changed my life!!!!!

Another thing is is i have a problem with my five friends….. most of them, or the ones i want to work on are not christians but they believe in God… how do i get to change them….. One is gay too and i have been working on him for a while… just to let you know, he was the one that i called at ur conference and he went to church with me the next day!!!!

I would love to hear from you. Just email me, or find me on myspace/facebook if at all possible…. Thanx again and this last weekend might have been the weekend that will get me into heaven.

Dear Zane,

Zane you are the man!!!! You are the new Zach effron (dude from highschool musical haha) You are so pumped about God and i love it… keep it up and shred the gnar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! o and i was the kid that gave you a playin card that said Jesus loves you haha =)

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On February 5, 2009 @ 12:20 pm Allie Reisinger said:

Ok i am So pumped about sharing my faith! Please Pray for a friend of mine Logan, he is not on the right track with God and hes not coming to church anymore. he makes excuses all the time. he is a christian but not practicing it. i tried to get him to come to D2S and the Chrysalis im going on but he said hes too busy. he might be but i think that was just an excuse. Please pray for him and me!

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On February 6, 2009 @ 3:07 pm Andrew Whitman said:

First off I had a great time in Columbus, thank you so much! You helped me overcome my fear and helped me talk to my girlfriend, Allison, about her beliefs. She is an atheistic evolutionist, and man was it hard talking to her about Jesus! We talked when I got home from the conference, and i had a 4 hour converstaion with her on the phone. I felt God was giving me the right words to say, but I never totally got through to her. It didn’t end to well, and eventually it led to our break up, with her calling God and the bible both stupid, and her hanging up on me. So, needless to say, I graduated from PU that day. But i keep praying for her everyday, and I just feel like God is working with her somehow. So maybe I wasn’t meant to be the person to bring her to Christ, but I’m not going to give up! Please keep praying for her, and for me to have the right words to get through to her! Thanks again!

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On February 7, 2009 @ 4:46 pm Danielle said:

greg and anybody else who is reading this,
hi umm my name is danielle and i went to the dare to share you conference the last weekend of january. i called my friend jaynee and i explained to her the gospel, but she still doesn’t believe. the reason why she doesn’t is that when she was little her and her sister got in an accident and her sister had to go to the hospital. everynight jaynee would pray by her bed that God wouldn’t let her die, but then she died. that is when she stopped believing in God. she is a pretty stuborn person and i don’t know what else to say to her. i would greatly appreciate if you had any suggestions to help me make her believe in God. if you could comment this post with suggestions i would greatly appreciate it. thank you!

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Hello Danielle,

I am sorry to hear about your friend’s loss. I am not familiar with the dare2share program as I have just found out about it. However, I strongly encourage you to check out the link in my post below and check out the video called Hell’s Best Kept Secret. The teachign they bring is absolutely excellent and something in the Bible that much of modern American Christianity has often missed. Basically it teaches us how to bypass the intellect and go to a persons heart and conscience. I am so greatful God has lead me to it, and so I strongly encourage you to check that out and continue to look into their materials is well. They actually have a tv show that is on every week called Way of the Master, it is designed to equip Christians to witness, it is on various religious channels, I know that it is on TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) on Mondays at 7pm EST. Also early in teh mroning on Wed. and Thursday I believe, its also on other networks. They also show how to witness to different people, and from the little I looked at it is a different approach than what dare2share uses, and I think we all would benefit from listening to the Way of the Master teachings and studying them in the Bible.

I don’t really have the answer for you though unfortuantely as I am not rather new at looking into their teachings, and I can’t explain it as well as they can, so if you watch the Hell’s Best Kept Secret video that would be best. What I can say is that the Bible also tells us that we have to pray according to God’s will. Jesus prayed to God that if it was God’s will the cup of crucifixion would pass from him, and that he wouldn’t have to go through it. However, Jesus was committed to the Father’s will as you know, and still went through the crucifixion. Perhaps similiar to yoru friend’s loss, I will share a brief snippet of my testimony. I grew up my whole life believing I was saved, however I lived like the world, I cursed, was into pornography, etc., but I knew that Jesus is the Son of God and died for the sins of the world. My fiance is a Christian and she got me to start thinking more about God and his reality and starting to go to church again. We got engaged, probably two weeks later she died in a car accident. I was destroyed and devestated. I put everything on her, my happiness, my future, my whole life I dreamed of being with my soul mate, because she would accept me and make everything better, but I was only with her for a short time. Thankfully I turned to God for the answers, and ended up getting saved. I do not believe i would have ever truely gotten saved if she had not died, because as long as she forgave me, I didn’t understand and wasn’t concerneda bout God forgiving me. So of course the only way this relates is the death of a loved one, but it was God’s will for her to die, not that I believe God killed her, but that God allowed it, God certainly could ahve prevented it if he watned to, but he allowed it to happen, and I am actually very thankful for it, because I was saved as a result. God is so much more powerful than sin, that he can still work through the wrong things, to get his truth out. Romans 8:28 is somethign I have had to learn veryw ell, God truely does work in all things, especially the bad things, for teh good of those that love him and are called according to his purpose. Now of course you friend won’t be able to understand the spiritual side of it without the light of the Spirit in her, so I don’t know how you can use what I am saying to help, but thought I would share anyways. A lot of it has to do with our attitude I think, Jesus had the proper attitude, in obeying God’s will, God has chagne dmy life to realize that great things have come fromt he worst thing in my life, just as with Jesus on the Christ, twice now, death and defeat, have become vicotry and life for me, trely life from Christ’s paying for my sins, but also the death of my fiance who brought me to Christ to see what he has done for me.(not that she in anyway had part in my actual forgivness from God). However, something that I had struggled with but that I learned, is that God knows everything, He knows when each person is going to die, and he is all powerful, he can and does accomplish in and out of each persons life waht needs to be done. My fiance died at 18, but God was able to work everything in her life taht was required, she was saved. God was able to accomplish in your friends sister’s life, everything that needed to be accomplished. Also I don’t know if her sister was saved or anythign about it, but if she herself prayed for her sister, it would seem there was some faith in the family, if her sister was saved, then she has had a far better time with the Lord, then she would have had going though life here. If she isn’t saved, then as with the story of Lazarus and the Rich man, she would desperately desire for yoru friend to be saved.

I think these are thoguhts you might could share with your friend, but more importantly watch that video I suggest, because it helps us to get to the heart of the matter. And really helps people to understand what Jesus’ death was all about, and why it is that we need to accept him.

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On February 21, 2009 @ 9:41 pm Aaron Dittmar said:

Heyyyy Greg I just want to thank you for all you do! I just got back from dare2share! Your crazy man! In a good way though. I’ve started my quest to lead 5 friends to Christ! Prayin for you. God bless.

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On February 21, 2009 @ 10:01 pm Daniel said:

Hey I went to Dare to Share and it was AWESOME! But it really hit home too. I realized that I need to share my faith with my friends, and yeah I might get rejected or maybe they wont want to talk, but I need to keep trying. That’s why I’m going to go out and shred the gnar, share the gospel. The gospel means good news, so lets go spread the good news. We all need to go out and share Christ with our friends because it is the only way to Heaven. So I ask that you all pray for me as I go out and make disipels of God and go out and Shred The Gnar! And Greg thank you so much you helped me understand so much. How to protect myself from the devils lies and how to arm myself with the Armor of God. Again I just thank you so much and ask you to pray for me and my friends.

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On February 21, 2009 @ 11:56 pm Tess Widdowson said:

Greg,

After attending Dare2Share in Nebraska this year, I had an opportunity to share the GOSPEL almost immediately afterward. God is so amazing, this makes me so excited every time I think about it! I was at a friend’s birthday party, hanging out on the couch with a couple people there. I had been complaining that I was working on very little sleep and still needed to get up in the morning to do a number of things, including going to church. Off hand, I asked if either of them had to go to church. One of the girls, Tiffany, commented that she “Didn’t do church”, and I saw an opportunity to put on my Boots of Readiness. Let me tell you, I was shreddin’ the gnar, bro! She seemed to be confused about who Jesus even was and what he was all about. I talked with her with caution, being careful not to puke the GOSPEL on her. She seemed to be very responsive; asking me questions like “How did Jesus die?”, “Why did people want to kill him?” and (the most exciting part!) “How can I put my trust in him?” I told her all she had to do was say a prayer and ask Jesus to be her personal savior, and I prayed with her. It was so exciting! I have invited her to come to youth group and am waiting anxiously to see how I can help start her journey with God. Thanks to Dare2Share, Greg Steer, and of course the God of the universe!

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On February 22, 2009 @ 1:38 am Tom Birk said:

hey man i saw this insane hat at dare 2 share and i was like
dude!
but i didnt have any money and i went to the site like 10min ago and idk if i just cant find it or if there isnt a merchandise thing on there but i was wonderin if you could hook me up with a site i could get the hat at and still support dare 2 share!?
jw man
oh and you should reply to me on my email cuz i probably will check that one first..
but thanks for the awesome message im pretty stoked to see how our school is gonna change! anyway later man!

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On February 22, 2009 @ 1:46 am Morgan Caroline said:

Hey Greg! I wanted to first off, Thank You for ShreddinTheGnar in Lincoln this weekend! This is the first year my youthgroup has gone on the outreach, and it was an awesome experience. And verbally, I’m horrible at sharing. So, on the way home, in the dark I wrote on a magazine a way to share the G.O.S.P.E.L. like it hit me and I was on fire writing this down! So, I decided to post it on facebook and tag like all my friends and family in it, now I have a cousin who is an atheist and I kept thinking about her while you were speaking and it took so much out of me; but I tagged her in it too. I feel like God is finally using me. He’s wanted to, I just wouldn’t let it happen. So, I wanted to share my interpretation of the Gospel with you!

“‘Hello everyone! My name is Morgan, you may remember of such occassions as we are friends, we are family, or we just know eachother’s names.
Well, I’ve heard some things these past couple of days that I’ve heard before, but never had the integrity to actually talk about it. So, after being ‘drilled’ or ‘knowledged’ about it, I am going to share it with you to the best of my ability.
Now, you may think I am crazy or just not care..I know, I had to go door to door and try to share with people while collecting can goods. Their reactions, I don’t think I will ever forget. So please if you could read this and take what it says into consideration, it means a lot to me. And hopefully it can mean a lot to you too, if it doesn’t already.

Here goes:

I’m sure you know what it’s like to have a stuffed animal that you love. Well, there’s a store called Build-A-Bear Workshop. Maybe you’ve been there, maybe not. Well, at Build-A-Bear you get to pick a type of stuffed animal, choose how much stuffing to put into it, what outfit you want on it, and you even get to pick a name for your ‘bear’. And you make this bear or stuffed animal for yourself. You create it so you can be with it, it can be your friend in times of needs, you just wanna hold it because you created it and you love it so much; because well it’s a work of art that you made! This brings me to my first point:
~G- God created us to with Him. God created us, like you created this bear. And He loves us, like you love this bear.

Now, have you ever done something behind your parents or a loved one’s back thinking that you’ll never get caught. Like something that you know they would totally disapprove of? Like sneaking out late to hang out with your friends or breaking something very valuable to them or watching a movie they disapprove of or going somewhere they said not to go or talking of things they wouldn’t like to hear you talk about; and you think that they will never find out. And you start to feel distant from them, because you know maybe you shouldn’t have done this or maybe you should tell them. But you’re scared of getting in trouble and you just keep feeling further and further apart. Like this little rebel act is separating you from them. Well,
~O- Our sins separate us from God. If we sin, our relationship with God distances. It grow further and further apart, until you just aren’t sure anymore. But not to worry, don’t start thinking that you have sinned too much for God to love you. He loves everybody, no matter what. An unconditional love. And all you have to do to close that gap is ask God into your heart, He heals all.

This story is fictional but has a great point..
My friend had to bake a cake for a banquet. Well, she chose the same night of the banquet to bake this cake. And she ended up burning it, like she torched this thing. It was originally a white cake but it could have been mistaken as dark chocolate, it was that bad. Okay, now the same night as the banquet and there is no time to bake another one, she couldn’t show up empty handed, and she couldn’t afford to buy one. Thinking hard, she remembered that she had some frosting in the cupboard, sprinklers too! So, she made this cake look so good, that you had no idea what was underneath it. It had all these good things on the top of it. She took it to the banquet, everyone complimenting how good it looked. She’s acting all shy and like blushing, but deep down she’s scared like screaming to herself “NO! Don’t eat the cake!” haha. Now, it’s time for dessert and everybody is like looking at this cake with such desire, they really wanna try it. By the time we get through the line, there isn’t any cake left. And my friend she is so mortified, she doesn’t want anybody to know that she made the cake, and we are looking for the people who got the cake, and they look a little confused. Because it was not what they expected, she tried to cover up the bad with good, but the bad was still there.
~S- Sins canNOT be removed by good deeds. Like the burnness of the cake couldn’t be hidden by frosting, your sins cannot be shoved away by doing good things. You’re sins are always going to be there, unless you ask God to forgive you. Trust me, He is very forgiving. And don’t think that because you have sinned that you don’t belong with God. Everybody sins, I mean have you met me? All I’m saying.

You watch movies, right? If you don’t watch a lot of movies, you’ve seen some at least. Well, a lot of time in movies you may see a scene where someone is about to get killed by a gun shot or hit by a truck or any possible way somebody could die on the big screen. Media, right? No, seriously though, people about to get killed or murdered, and a loved one jumps out in front of the bullet or pushes them out of the way of an oncoming truck and that person is the one who ends up dieing. Because they cared so much about that other person’s life to give up their own life just to save them. And like if it’s a superhero movie, the superhero does something that no superhero should ever do and they die. And after a couple of sad scenes of trying to cope with the death, this superhero is alive and back saving the world! and your like “WOAH! Superhero’s not dead! What a great ending!” Am I right?
~P- Paying the price for sin, Jesus died and rose again. Jesus died on the cross, so that we could be forgiven of our sins. So we could be free to worship God. And he came back to show the ‘religious’ people that He was great and to show that just by going to Church doesn’t make you right in Jesus’ name, but actually having a ‘relationship’ with Jesus does. Because Jesus spoke with the sinners and was a friend to them. And the ‘religious’ ones who believe that if you sin, you go to hell, are the one’s who hung Jesus on the cross. So, I’ll repeat it so you won’t forget it, Paying the Price for Sin, Jesus Died and Rose Again.

TRUST is a big, big thing. Trust is one of the biggest things you can offer to someone. But, you put trust in your car, trusting that it will start, that the breaks will work, or that nothing is leaking from it. You put trust in your family to love you and help you in times of need. You put trust in your best friend to help you keep that one secret. In your alarm clock to wake you up in the morning. In your oven to cook something right or in time. In the notes you took so you won’t fail that big test coming up. You even put trust in yourself to make sure that you feel good about yourself, that you wake up each daying feeling like you want to live, and that you will do your best to be positive.
~E- Everyone who trusts in Him alone will have eternal life. If you put your trust in Jesus, you will live with Him eternally in Heaven. All you have to do is ask him into your life and trust in Him to make you feel whole.

Have you ever tried to kill a cockroach? or seen somebody try to kill a cockroach? Maybe heard about cockroaches? Well, they don’t enjoy death. You can stomp on them all you want and they just won’t die!
I saw on an episode of The Fairly Oddparents, now if you’ve ever watched the show; you know Timmy Turner has two Godparents- Cosmo and Wanda. And they grant him whatever wish he wants. Well, on this episode, Timmy wishes that Wanda will have a relaxing day at some spa. And Cosmo is left to help Timmy with some school report. Now, Cosmo isn’t the brightest fairy in the magical wave of the wand. And Timmy wishes these cockroaches to be smart so he can communicate with them for his report. Well, the cockroaches want world domination. Smooth move Cosmo. haha. Yeah, so they try everything to kill these cockroaches, but cockroaches don’t die. They bring in bullfrogs and martians, even. The Magic won’t kill them.
~L- Life that’s eternal means living with Jesus forever. Trusting in Jesus and then dying is like being a cockroach, you canNOT die because you get to live with Jesus forever. Like your life isn’t ending, but just beginning; back home with Our Creator.
~**~
What I just shared with you is the G.O.S.P.E.L. Journey. It was shared with over 7,000 teenagers who took it and shared it all across Lincoln. And other cities to come. Jesus has done something great in my life.

I just want to thank you so much for reading this all the way to the end. I truly hope that it gets you thinking about Jesus. This has been such a great challenge, and I’m still trying to figure things out. But thinking, why not share what I already know!

If you have any questions,
message me!
or you can visit
http://www.dare2share.org

Thank you and God Bless!
<3.Morgan’”

Thanks Again Greg! See you next year in Nebraska!

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Great interpretation Morgan! I don’t know about the cockroach illustration but it sure made the point. We can’t get squished by death! Keep shreddin’!!

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On February 22, 2009 @ 2:08 am Jessica Morrow said:

Hey Greg,
So I just got home from the Lincoln, Nebraska D2S. I had such an amazing time. This was truely a time for me to take the next step in my walk with Christ. And now I feel I am ready for what God has in store for me next. It fails to amaze me how God’s timing works. For the past couple of months I have been asking God to help me speak to one of my friends about him. I would pray and ask God that he might open his heart and let him see God’s light and to help me say the things that needed to be said to my friend. Though I have been waiting for God’s signal and I was beginning to think maybe I wasnt the person that was suppose to help him. But God never gives up on me and I should always remember to never give up on him. Because when you ask us to think of a person who didnt know God I thought of my friend. I also called him when you asked the whole crowd to call their friends. Then tonight I got on to the computer and got onto webcam and called him. I began off with simple questions. He started out kind of awkward but as I kept the conversation going I asked God to speak through me and he did! My friend ended up starting to cry and I asked him if he would like to accept Jesus as his savior and he said “Yes!” So I knew he didnt really know what to do so I lead him in a prayer and he accepted Jesus into his heart for the first time!!!!! I am so happy and I just want to thank you and thank God for the guidance.
God Bless,
Jessica

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On February 22, 2009 @ 12:56 pm Lindsay said:

Greg Stier,

I had a testimony that I wanted to tell you about that happened at Dare 2 Share. For the past 5 or 6 year, I have been struggling with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. What would happen was a thought, such as suicide or hurting someone would come to mind, and the thought was not something I could control. I wasn’t thinking seriously about suicide, but the thoughts would pop into my head and I couldn’t get them out. I would get anxiety and be terrified that I would do the thought and it would run over and over again through my mind.

It was recommended that I see a counselor and take a pill so that the thoughts would go down. They decreased a lot, but they were never gone completely.

Well, Friday night, while I was watching the drama about Lauren, I was really being attacked by the thoughts. I kept thinking of cutting, and I was considering stepping out of the room so the thoughts wouldn’t bother me, when a tremendous peace came over me. At that moment, the thoughts were gone. I felt a release and the thoughts weren’t running through my mind. All fear was gone. I realized on Saturday night during the last session when we were worshipping that I had been healed of the OCD. I could stand next to high windows without being scared, and it didn’t bother me to be 5 floors up in the parking garage.

Now, I can watch all of the movies that I wasn’t able to watch earlier, and I can read books that previously affected my thoughts. I also have stopped taking the pill, and I am just so, completely free. The drama about the chains was also very important, because it showed me that OCD was a chain that could be broken.

Thank you for the time you spent reading this, and I want to tell you that the conference was truly life-changing.

Lindsay

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On February 22, 2009 @ 1:33 pm kaitlyn said:

Hi this is kaitlyn sewell my church group Eastside baptist and i just got back from dare2share last night at 12:30pm . I will start shredding the gnar tomorrow with my first friend courtney labahn my friend sammie veal and i will try are hardest to get to understand but we will not force her .
Thanks kaitlyn sewell

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On February 22, 2009 @ 1:39 pm Kyle Block said:

I just got back from dare to share and it was amazing! I am going to need a lot of prayer sharing God with one of my friends, he wants to be the ruler of hell and he is emo. Please pray for him his name is Thomas and he lives in Omaha Nebraska. I feel closer to God after this conference and will try harder to break my bad habits and live for God!
P.S. can you send me the link to the “Shreddin the Nar” book?
Thanks God bless you,
Kyle Block
e-mail jackcarverjr@yahoo.com

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February 22nd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Hi kyle this is kaitlyn i will be praying for you and your friend i hope god will give you the corage to talk to him about what jesus did for him good luck with your friend i will be praying
kaitlyn

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On February 22, 2009 @ 3:55 pm Tess said:

Thank you! so much you guys! I loved everything about the show! You guys have done soooo much for me! I love my God more now then i did befor. You showed me that it’s ok to ask for help. I got it! thank you again! I loved the band(Fee) they were great!!!!!!! Zane your the best thing ever I got so much out of what you said! and the stuff that you guys were saying about porn and stuff helped my friend alot( i am a girl but he was there too) I am going to come back next year!!!! Thanks SOOOO MUCH! GO BIG RED!!!!

GOD BLESS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU!!!!!!

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On February 22, 2009 @ 5:49 pm Zoe said:

Hey Greg, On the dare2share website I can’t find the Shreddin the Gnar t-shirt, can I still buy it??

Zoe

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On February 22, 2009 @ 5:54 pm Maddie said:

Please pray for my friends, Brennan, Katie, Mallory, Abbey, and Karly. They are all die-hard Catholics. Brennan and I have gotten in relgious debates before. He really does believe what you do gets you to heaven. Katie is never serious aout religion. I tried talking to her about it. And she aksed me if Dae2Share brain washed me. It broke my heart. Mallory is so lost. She thinks she’s dumb, she thinks that she’s ugly. She thinks no one cares. She has bought everyone of the devils lies. Abbey, is open to it, but I think that it just goes over her head. I dont think she really thinks about it seriously. Karly is very disobedient. She does everything for her. Everything is for her. Its just Karly in her little world. Please pray. Please please please! Pray for them in these areas expecially. They ned Jesus very much.
God bless.

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On February 22, 2009 @ 5:54 pm mara engelbert said:

Spencer is a really good friend of mine and i am worried about him because he always goes around joking about god and he says that you really have to mess up big time to not go to heaven, i have asked him many times if he is going to heaven and he has never given a straight answer. Cody knows little about god he goes to youth group sometimes but for the wrong reasons his parents have been split up and its really hard on him but he drinks and he claims he is a Jehovah witness it scares me.
Ben is a different story hes goes to church but he goes out and drinks parties and he has sex. he has been with seven girls and he is only 16 his life is really messed up. Phillip he want to believe in Christ but his dad wont let him go to church or youth group or any thing that has to do with god i feel bad for the kid. James is not a teenager but he is the one i am worried about the most he caught up with drugs and drinking and him and i are really close he was the friend i called at dare to share. he says he is going heaven but he is not for shore and i want him to try and get away from the drugs and go to church, but it is really hard when he is in Texas.

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On February 22, 2009 @ 6:02 pm Chantalle said:

Hey Greg! Just wanted to let you know that my mom used to know you! Her name is Lisa Masoni.She used to live in Boulder Colorado. She wanted me to say hi to you for her, but I never got the chance. Do you remember who that is?

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I think so. Did she go to Vista Grande Elementary School or to Arvada Christian school??

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On February 22, 2009 @ 6:49 pm Crystal Pizzimenti said:

On Friday (February 20, 2009) & Saturday (February 21, 2009), I went to Dare 2 Share in Lincoln, NE. It was amazing! On Friday we were supposed to think of one friend that didn’t have a relationship with Jesus Christ, and I thought of my friends Chris and Nicki. On Saturday we took out our cell phones and called our friends that needed help. I don’t have Nicki’s number and Chris was at a debate tournament so he couldn’t talk. So instead, I decided to call his girlfriend, Ashley. I talked to her for a while and she decided that she wanted to believe in God and accept Jesus Christ. She has her different beliefs about what happens after we die but she said that if I could tell her that she was going to Heaven for sure, that’d be a great thing to hear. On our way back home to Fremont after Dare 2 Share, Chris called me and asked me what I needed. I talked to him and he listened and came back at me with his usual sarcastic comments about God and Jesus but he finally decided to give up joking around and listened to me. He had to get off the phone but said he’d call me back today. We talked for a little bit and he said that he kind of understands where Christians come from and promised me that he’ll give God and Jesus Christ a chance. During this week, I am going to call or talk at school to Ashley again, Chris again, Nicki, Jesse, and Ethan. I will post again after this week to say how it goes.

God loves everyone including you, Greg. =D

-Crystal Pizzimenti

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On February 22, 2009 @ 8:25 pm Taylor said:

hey i have a friend and she told me like a month ago that this summer she started to drink and one day she started puking and couldn’t stop. her mom took her to the hospital and they found out she had cancer. i guess they got all the cancer out but while i was at the dare 2 share conference this weekend in lincoln, nebraska she texted me and told me her and her cousin got jumped and were in the hospital. then the next night after i got home from dare 2 share she told me she feels like dong things from last summer that she knows she should never do again like drinking, cutting herself, and wanting to die. well i prayed earlier to give me a way to help someone like you guys help soo many people. so i told her i knew a way to help her and she wanted to know how so i told her to learn about God and she was like no offense but im not a big believer. so i asked her questions like do you know where you would go if you were to die? and she was like idk. then i told her that dare 2 share made me want to help people like you guys do learn about christ and that christ can change your life once you believe and she told me that she could be my first person. i was so excited. she told me she was willing to give christ a chance. then i was talking to her earlier and she was like guess what and i was like what and she told me that she prayed the night before after i told her i wanted to tell her about God and she said she felt soo much better and she no longer wants to kill herself. i want to thank you guys soo much. you helped me save my friend and introduce her to christ. i couldn’t have done it without what i learned this weekend at dare 2 share!

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On February 22, 2009 @ 8:57 pm Amanda said:

Hey. I just went to dare2share in Lincoln NE. It was amazing! This was my 3rd year and i started to shreddin the gnar. But i have a question. How are you supposed to tell people about christ if your not sure you even know him? this has been my struggle for a couple years. Im not sure if I know God. And I think that I’m not worthy enough to be loved by him. My brain knows he’s there, but I dont think my heart does. And those two things are totally different. I just want to know for sure that I’m going to heaven. But I have no idea. I dont even know where to start believing. If I’m not even sure if I’m going to heaven, how am I supposed to lead others to God. I definently want my friends to know God. I just wish I did too. I just need help i guess…

But dare2share was amazing.. like always and i would like to thank you for making it that way. I just left with the same feeling i went into d2s with.. emptyness. I know what i need to fill that place.. God, but i just have NO idea how.

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Amanda,

The truth is, NO ONE is “worthy enough” to be loved by God–that is the amazing thing about the Gospel. God loves us in Christ because of who HE is and what HE’S done. God’s love is unconditional and steadfast because it is based on Christ’s righteousness and death on the cross. That means that God loves you no matter what, even during those times when you don’t love yourself or don’t feel like anyone else loves you.

You can know for sure if you are going to heaven by answering this one question: Do you believe that Christ is the only way to heaven and that you are a sinner and cannot get there by “being good enough” but only through his death and resurrection, which paid the price of your sins? If you answer yes with your heart, then you are a believer and are promised eternal life. The rest of the Christian life comes out of the understanding that you are a sinner saved solely by grace–there are no requirements other than trusting Christ’s work on the cross.

Please talk to your youth leader, your parents or a Christian adult about these things!! They will be able to help you more than I can.

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On February 22, 2009 @ 9:27 pm Libby Johnson said:

Ihave been to dare 2 share Lincoln the last 3 years and have lived my life toward God. The experience is amazing and my first year decided I know that I am going to heaven. I was shreddin the gnar with my cheerleading friends that made a really bad choice. I asked if they were to die if theÃ new where they are going 2 said yes to heaven 1 had no clue and the other laughed and walked away my 1 friend excepted christ right there but we pray for the other who did not.without dare 2 share I would never would have been able to help my friend receive christ. THANKYOU

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On February 23, 2009 @ 8:50 am Angela said:

Wow I have never been to Dare to Share before and this was AMAZING! Thank you so much Greg and Zane for showing me how to shred the gnar!

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On February 23, 2009 @ 1:53 pm sierra said:

well, i was at lincoln too this weekend. i would like to keep in touch, since last years dare to share had such a big inpact on my life! i was so glad to see so many Jesus loving christians in the house this weekend! it absolutly rocked! keep it up and you will absolutly be in my prayers! keep it coming because they are teens who were worse than me, and they need all the help they can get!
God bless you,
sierra

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February 23rd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
dare 2 sahre at lincoln was awesome

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On February 23, 2009 @ 3:13 pm Teagan Bassinger said:

Hey i attended dare 2 share for the third time this weekend in Lincoln. im shreddin the gnar with deon micheal sam alex and brooke they are all very open minded when it comes to sharing faith. Alex is agnostic brooke is atheist sam is catholic and i dont really know what deon and micheal have in mind when it comes to religeon but everything is goin great thanks a ton!!!!!!

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On February 23, 2009 @ 3:44 pm Brittany Zwerk said:

Greg i went to the the D2S conference in Lincoln nebraska 48 hours ago i have talked to 7 friends though none have opened to me yet but i wont give up im pumped to share my good news so someday my friends and I can party with Jesus in Heaven

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On February 23, 2009 @ 4:41 pm Hannah said:

Hi, my best frind, Ashley, she is an athiest and tries to commit suicide at least three times a month. she knows Jesus, read the Bible, and rejects that he exists. I don’t know what to do anymore.

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On February 23, 2009 @ 7:51 pm favre1994 said:

Hey, greg i was at lincoln it was awesome and on monday 2/23 i had 2 of may friends accept god as their lord and savior.

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On February 23, 2009 @ 7:53 pm favre1994 said:

my 2 friends john and nathan thought jesus was a joke so i will keep praying for them.

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On February 23, 2009 @ 9:47 pm Samantha said:

Hey Greg!
Im part of a peer support group. We think of things to help our schools students. we live in a small town of 6,000 and over the past 5 years 12 kids have died. So we are trying to help students alot! My story is I was at peer Support, and there were only 4 girls there tonight, and I knew they didnt know Jesus really well, so I thought to myself ” you know what, Im gonna shred the Gnar with them.” So after the meeting, The girls and I were just talking, So I asked them if they knew where they were going after died. And they all said no. So I told them about Going to Heaven. And I explained the GOSPLE to them. 2 of the girls werent interested. But the other 2 were. So after all that, one of the girls was asking if you could be a a virgin again. And I explained that you could, and all this other stuff. So after explaining all of this, I asked them If they wanted to pray the prayer of salvation, and they both said yes, and we did!! I was so Excited!!!! Thank you so much for coming to Linclon!!!!! It was awesome to learn how to share my faith with kids my age!!!

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On February 24, 2009 @ 3:09 pm : ) said:

Hey,Greg i don’t want to put my name but just a few days ago i came home from DARE 2 SHARE and it really spoke to me. I want to thank you sooo much for bringing me closer to God; I would also like to thank Zane and all the others who helped in Dar2Share and I really enjoyed it. I seriously can not wait until next year. Umm…..I also would really like you to reply to this comment/question cause I really need your help; anyways I am starting to shred the gnare and it is so fun and I feel really good when I do and I have those 5 friends in mind and I decided to start with my best friend when you told us to call one of out friends, I called her. When I spoke to her I was a little nervous and she answered so I talked to her about what we are doing and stuff about the conference and after I said a good amount of well thought out stuff all she could say was:”Okay?” and then she said she had to go. It dissapointed me and so when I got home from the most amazing trip of my life I e mailed her and told her almost everything you said in like a 50 page e mail and when she responded I realzed that I should have talked to her sooner cause she has no idea who God is and how to get to heavem. At points I can tell that she doesn’t want to talk about it but I am encouraging us both to continue please give me tips/ideas on what I can say and to the other commenters if you would please help me I will take anyhing to help my friend and I intend to keep in touch with you Greg if you respond my e mail is duck_lover@hotmail.com
Thanks again, YOU ROCK!!!!!
Shreddin the Gnare

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On February 24, 2009 @ 5:04 pm lee mckinney said:

a day after dare 2 share i went to a friend’s house named Steve Cole. he answered the door and i ask him if he wanted to go on a bike ride.
“i can’t i have a friend over and his arm is broken” He said
so then i asked him if he wanted to talk for a little bit
“bout wat” he asked
so i asked him wat he thought of religion he said he didn’t like it so i told him that ithought that it was phony. at that piont he woundered wat i was getting at. i told him that i Believe in fellowship
“like lord of the rings?”
“kind of” i told him and then i said that Jesus loves us and he doesn’t like religion either.
“i have heard the name jesus”
i then told him that jesus died on the cross for our sins and that we all sin esp. religious people
i asked him if he would come to jesus and accept him as his personal savior and he did!!!:)

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On February 25, 2009 @ 2:54 pm uthherder said:

Greg, I was at the Nebraska conference. This is my second Dare2Share conference, the first being BLAZE. Wow I like the tweaks they are really great and that drama was very powerful. I was the Guy that said in the Youth Leader breakout session that we’ve got to get our students from consumerism, “whats in it for me” and social networking, to having a heart for service and for the lost. With all of that said I really appreciate your sensitivity to the Lord allowing him to use you as he has and will in the future.

I would ask for your prayers in the following…

Sunday night I was met with tragic news that one of my former youth sponsors committed suicide. I was hit heavy and I can only imagine how this hitting the youth of whom are adults now. Her son turns 18 Today and these guys were good friends they were even on the search committee when I came to the Church in 1996. I would ask that I would have Godly wisdom to minister to the youth, to the family and the community of faith that is asking WHY. Over and over in my mind I have asked myself why my wife and my brother in law (a former elder at that church) and I all had her on our minds last week? I am convinced of this, that when someone comes to mind its not an accident its the Spirit of God saying there is a battle going on here ” Hit your Knees NOW”

Our power is Prayer, thank you for that reminder this weekend and thank you for your prayers for this family.

If Image is everything…I’ll take the image of Christ. ROM 8:29

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On February 25, 2009 @ 6:10 pm paige said:

well, it all started when my friend asked me to go to dare 2 share in lincoln, nebraska. i thought that it would be another time to hang out with my friends and maybe get to know jesus better. i wanst expecting it to have SUCH a big impact on my life. im so glad she asked me to go!
i have this friend who used to be really close to god. she had bible verses all over her myspace and wrote “i love jesus” all over her notebooks. about 6 months ago she started going into depression. i noticed that she hadn’t mentioned jesus at all for a while now. she is also going through health problems too. i called her at dare 2 share and i mentioned jesus. the next day she went to the counselar at school and told her about her problems. now she is working through her problems in a good way.
i still plan on teaching her more about god and telling her to just believe in him and he will help her through anything.

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On February 26, 2009 @ 10:14 am Catherine said:

I have just talk to my Friends during lunch yesterday and i asked them if they new if they were going to heaven or hell and they both said no so I started to tell them more about God and what he can do and one of them right then and their got saved and now she is sharing the gospel with others.

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On February 26, 2009 @ 10:15 am Catherine said:

I have talked to my friends about the Gospel and God and they both commited their lives to God.

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On March 1, 2009 @ 3:46 pm Kristen said:

Greg,
I just wanted to let you know you had a huge impact on me at Dare 2 Share this year. This is my second time going and I SO much fun and I learned SO much! It has gotten me so fired up for God. I love it! Anyways, during Dare 2 Share when we all had to call a friend I called my friend. We couldn’t talk on the phone but we texted for about three hours. It was really cool talking to her about God. Then my friend who was with me wanted me to call this guy we know because she said she was too afriad to talk to him. So when I was about to she asked me to talk to this other guy we know with her. So I did that instead. But the most awesome thing about this is that when i called him, the first guy we were gunna call answered his phone. Right then I knew God wanted me to talk to him. so i did. It was all going good and he was listening. Thank you for making us all call our friends to tell them the good news. I’m ready to go out and share God with everyone I know and bring more people to Dare 2 Share next year. Thank you so much for what you do. It means so much to me and a lot of other people too.

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On March 1, 2009 @ 4:57 pm Brandi said:

I have a question. I attended the Dare2Share ‘08 conference this year and I decided to “SHRED THE GNAR” so I went up to these two older men at the Arizona Center and ask them if they have accepted Jesus as their personal savior and what their spirituals beliefs are and they were MORMAN!! How do I handle that kind of situation?!

Thanks and the conference had a really big impact on my life!

-Brandi Cunningham

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On March 1, 2009 @ 4:58 pm Scott said:

I just want to share the gospel with my friends and others I have been a minister for about six years and even though I have preached if front of congregation and in front of youth groups, sharing the gospel with my friends as been the hardest. But after the experience I had at the dare2share conference, during the cell phone challenge, God taught me something new. I reached out to a friend and got a different response than I was expecting. The words that I spoke from the Lord were accepted. Praise God!!!!

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On March 1, 2009 @ 8:04 pm David-D2S phx said:

Greg,

I cant even begin to tell you how stoked i am to be shreddin the gnar. This weekend i(16 yr old jr in high school) was able to sponsor and pay for 3 jr high kids to attend. i knew friday night was gonna get me pumped and little did i know that my 3 guys accepted christ. We’re starting a bible study/outreach group to grow deeper. so than saturday our outreach rolls around and it was cool. i actually shared my story live. p.s. public speaaking =NOT FOR ME. so as im back stage. my youth leader there texted me and said put your trust and nerves in god. you got this.

now for the story.

I was walking down the st and saw a little boy about 6 or 7 nd so i go up to and introduce my sell and he tells me his name(juan) and that hes 7. i got to talking with this kid about life and what not and im sitting outside this house, well two houses in one and this is where he lives a house 35ft by 35ft one room kitchen is the bedroom and everything. he lives with 12-15 ppl on average night and doesnt get to sleep. I asked him why dont you sleep well. and this is where my heart broke down. Bcuz my brothers and dad they beat me. and i started to tear. and than i said well do you go to church. he was like yeah but they hate me last time i went they left me alone. and than hes like also i havent showered in 6 days and im like wow! and he tells me if im lucky i get a bath/shower every 3 days and if not no. and i could tel lthat while talking to this kid he needed it. but than i go into depth and start shreddin the gnar. I talked to him about how he can be saved and prayed a prayer with him and he prayed it aloud and accepted christ i gave him the gospel of john book and a pamphlet on the next steps. and walked away. he didnt want me to leave.

i walked out from back stage and knew my story had reached/touched many as i had a crowd wanting to talk to me and a line of ppl.

im super stoked to set phoenix ablaze with his word.

and im SHREDDIN’ THE GNAR!!!

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On March 1, 2009 @ 10:23 pm rachel r said:

hey greg! my name is rachel and i’m a freshman.
thank u soooo much for this weekend! i was a student this weekend in phoenix. i am on the worship team at my church in youth group and i just wanted to let u know that this weekend i truely know what it means to WORSHIP! i’ve been a “pastor’s kid” my whole life (or all i remeber) and i always just worshiped without thinking. even last week i got up on saturday to go to practice and sang and went home without thinking and then on sunday i didn’t even wanna get up but told myself…”i’m on worship i g2g and sing…” it was soooooo monotonous! but this weekend you taught me that worship is more than a style of song it’s a style of LIFE and a style of LOVE. now i wanna worship~not just singing although that’s super fun and a way to show God i love him with my whole heart…but actually “shred the gnar” and live my life for HIM.
please pray for me. today is the sunday after D2S and i called my friend during your cell challenge and she didn’t pick up and i told her i’d call today…but her phone wigged out and now i’m talking to her tommorw and i’m nervous. but i know that its not about me and my rep…Jesus is bigger than fear!

thank you so much again and i can’t wait till BLAZE!!!!!!!

sister in Christ, rachel

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On March 2, 2009 @ 7:48 pm Colton Kreuzer said:

WOW!!!!!!! Greg, you, and Zane and the NFL guy really impacted my life during Dare2Share. I thought that i was doing the most i could to live right for God, but over the weekend, i realized that i was missing one thing——sharing the reason why i am a Christian, and why i belive what i do, and how other people can know for sure where they go after death. I am so glad that i went to hear you guys talk, and my ex-girlfriend, Megan, has always gone to church, but she never actually trusted what she was taught, and thought that there were too many loopholes. BUT i explained all of those to her, and the GOSPEL, and how to know for sure, andshe converted to God right then and there. She was the first person I’ve ever “shredded the gnar” with, and thanks to you guys, i HIGHLY DOUBT she will be the last. THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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On March 3, 2009 @ 1:00 pm Claire Louise said:

Hey Greg,
Thanks so much for such an awesome weekend. This year was my second yar attending Dare2Share and it has changed my life and made me more on fire for God. It’s an amazing thing that you guys have working. And thanks to you and the D2S team I have learned to share my faith in a good way. I just wanted to let you know that at D2S 2008 on the cell phone challenge I called my best friend for the cell phone challenge and she said she didn’t know where she was going when she died, which was a huge shocker to me. This weekend I brought her with me and we had an amazing time and now I’m sure she’s not questioning what will happen when she dies. And to top it all off we ended the weekend with discovering our ‘dumb-ometers’ were rather broken also as we found out at one in the morning we were locked out of our hotel room. Thanks for teachin us how to Shred the Gnar, trust me we will continue to shred it back home in Vegas.
Fly With Christ,
Claire Louise.

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On March 7, 2009 @ 10:19 pm Leyanet said:

here is my shreddin the gnar.
i ended up calling a freind of mine about god and it didnt ended up well. he said he have no promblems about my relgion and someday he will be saved so i failed then next day i ended up calling my different of freind and this time it ended up awesome! she accepted jesus as her savior. then during our breakes we went to a park and got three peoples but one got saved! it was aweosme!
it was shreddin the gnar!

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On March 8, 2009 @ 4:33 pm Tiffany Gordon said:

wow this weekend was great.Thought it was great today has to be one of the best days ever my boyfriend of one year got saved, but even if I did help him to the point d2s was the one that really helped. He went to the altanta with me and was really moved by everything there. He was really moved most of all by greg. We talked this morning and after some long talks and some crying we called are youth paster and logan let jesus into his life its so great I could not be happier thank d2s for everything you really helped.

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On March 9, 2009 @ 4:56 am Tiffany said:

Greg,
OMG!!! my youth gruop went to the dare to share confrence in Atlanta on March sixth. That was soooo Awesome.We had a little bit of trouble though, I belive that satan didn’t want us to go out and minister to people because when we were eating breakfast, a girl in our youth group passed out! we were all praying for her in the middle of the food court, then she went to the hospital but she is fine now. After that we went back to the confrence. then on our lunch break another girl was throwing up and she had to call her dad to come and get her. then a little guy in our group threw up too, and then we couldn’t find the neighborhood we were assigned to and everyone was getting mad at each other and i started to get really anxious, and just had to get out of the car and breath, and we just went back to centenial parking. After i started breathing again,one of my youth leaders, Betsy said, “we aren’t going to let this get the best of us. we’ll have our own little praise and worship service right here.” so we started singing all these songs we sing in church and we were in the front row ready to go that night!!! I just wanted to share our story and say how awesome I think God is and say satan didn’t get his way, We still worshiped God!!!

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On March 12, 2009 @ 6:13 am Roger said:

Shred the Gnar!!! thats awesome. Im going to have to steal this for my leaders and volunteers. thanks for letting me steal from you! =)

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On March 14, 2009 @ 6:26 pm BREANNA KELLEY said:

WELL WHEN I WENT TO DARE 2 SHARE IN ALANTA I COULDNT BELIEVE WHAT AND HOW MUCH I LEARNED AND WHEN ZANE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CHILDREN LIKE ABOUT HELPING THEM AND STUFF WELL WHEN ZANE SAID IF WE CAN GO BACK THERE TO HELP THE CHILDREN. WELL I WENT BACK THERE AND GOT THA SLIP ABOUT THE CHILD. WELL SEE IM ONLY 13 YEARS OLD AND YOU CAN BE AMAZED OF WHAT I DID! THE NEXT
DAY I CAME HOME AND ASKED IF IT WAS ALRIGHT AND SHE STARETED TO CRY!!! AND SHE SAID SURE DARLING AND NOW WE HELP A LITTLE BOY WHO IS THREE YEARS OLD . IF IT WASNT FOR MY GOOD FRIEND KAYLA I WOULD OF NEVER GOT TO DO WHAT I DO NOW THANK YOU,ZANE,AND WELL I FORGOT THE OTHER ONE BUT ALL OF YALL FOR TELLING AND SHARRING THAT TALK WITH EVERYONE!!!!

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On March 19, 2009 @ 8:12 pm Dave Miller said:

SHRED THE GNAR! SHRED THE GNAR! Greg just wanted to update you on some cool stuff. Our youth and myself went to D2S Atlanta and this was the first trip for the teenagers. I have been before and knew of all the zany and cool stuff that goes on over the weekend. I wondered how they would do during the cellphone challenge and when it came time of course i was like staring at them. 2 of the 3 students I brought called and shared the gospel with their friends, but their friends said they were already going to Heaven. Once we got back they kept inviting their friends to church and one came last Sunday (we talked about Satan) and this past Wed (Gospel Journey 1–O our sins seperate us from God) I gave the invitation and he raised his hand! He later told me he knew it was time to quit playing games with God!! How awesome is that man??!! Not only did this guy accept Christ, but they got to see the “fruits of their labor”! Keep up the good work Greg, I know it’s hard sometimes (or maybe I don’t know exactly), but it is paying off! I appreciate you and the crew and love you guys!

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On March 20, 2009 @ 1:05 pm JesusIsMyBFFE said:

HEY HEY!!!
So this is my first post and I just wanted to say that Dare 2 Share was super amazing this year. It was my third year and I knew that it’d be awesome and I called my friend Logan and he hung up on me. Both of the previous years I did Dare 2 Share I’d either led my friend to Christ or helped them see there might be a God and that Jesus was the way to Heaven. Now, my friend and I have been tryin to share our faith with this kid since the beginning of the school year and everytime we bring up God, he puts us down. And I have to admit it really gets to me and it hurts because, he’s my friend and when the topic of God comes up the puts it down and refuses to listen. I ask you to please pray for Logan.
Thanks

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On March 22, 2009 @ 1:00 pm Tiffany said:

I am speechless from this weekend’s experience! It was so increadibly exciting that for a minute while I was driving both to and from the conference I thought that this wasn’t real! Being my first time to a dare2share conference, I didn’t quite know what to expect. Sure some of the things everyone did at the conference were both personally awkward and risky, but those moments were what made me think that one of the things about being a Christiann is taking chances.
Oh, btw I’m one of the bad singers!
Well, I shreaded the gnar (woohoo!) many times yesterday. I actually went from door to door and talked to a Christian, a family of methodists, two agnostics, and a family that believed in the different gods of the world. Talking to them, I learned many informational things, such as what the family of methodists believed in was that our Lord Jesus was just a profit, but they were one of the only two people that were patient enough to listen to my friend and I try to reach out to them with the gospel.
I also entered the PU! I wasn’t one of the people sharing on the stage, but I was one of the many other people that experienced doors being slammed in our face. But hey, Christ picks us up and we continue to spread the gospel! My friend and I came to this house and an old man opened the door. I asked him if he had any canned food and he said he didn’t, and when I asked him if he knew whether or not he was going to go to heaven some day he said no and shut the door. I had another experience that was similar, but yet somehow I think it was related to how stressed the person was.
I have many friends at school that don’t know Christ, or have heard of Him but never really wanted to trust Him as their personal savior. Please pray that the Lord gives me the strength to witness to them, and if they don’t accept Him that they at least listen to what I have to say. One of my friends that I want to witness to is this a really big leader. He doesn’t know it but so many people look up to him as a leader, but he doesn’t put his absolute faith in Christ. I believe that if I can lead him to Christ, that many other people will see Christ in him and trust in Him as well. Plus, he’s one of the many people that I know that I don’t want to not go to heaven.
It was an awesome experience this year and I plan on going next year to Blaze! So see ya there!

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On March 22, 2009 @ 1:27 pm Kirstie Opel said:

So pretty much i was the the incincible in seattle
i already saw 2 of my friends since yesterday, and i told them the story of the gospel
after explaining it, and them asking questions, i looked at the clock. It had been 50 minutes. By the end they both gave there heart to Jesus. And this happened just a few hours ago.

Just wanted to share my story with you:)
thank you so much
for just being who you are

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On March 29, 2009 @ 8:31 pm elizabeth said:

I’m going to try my hardest to share my compassion of the Lord to the ones I love the most. No body gets left behind, I pray time and time again and it seems to be working because my friends are now opening up their love and affection to Christ. I’m not only moved by this but they are too. What I am praying for is that one day they too will trust God with all of their heart and soul like I have and am. ;D

-elizabeth-

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On March 29, 2009 @ 9:47 pm Jasmin Fauth said:

my whole family really needs prayer please help

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April 1st, 2009 at 6:33 am
I will pray for you. Trust God and the Power of Prayer. He will help you out

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On April 6, 2009 @ 10:59 pm Bianca Johnson said:

I just want to tell you that you have truly blessed me this weekend at the sears center. I was in the middle of giving up on my Christian faith and letting myself go until I came to the conference.Your words were touching and the music was incredible! I really enjoyed ” Shreddin the Gnar” with all of you guys.I think the work you and the crew do is amazing and I hope you keep on doing more conferences like that one. I will keep praying for my friends and you so that when you come back through chicago I will have more great new to tell ya! thanks again

Bianca

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On April 7, 2009 @ 5:02 pm abs said:

God is totally INCREDIBLE! He’s using D2S in amazing ways. And even though I’m not at D2S anymore the same God that broke me and spoke to me there is the same one I walk with today. He is so awesome and all praise goes to Him! I got the chance to talk to my friend while she was spending the night, it’s little bit by little bit you know? Also got new seats in science today and I asked God to stick whoever He wanted me to speak to by me. One of the kids on my Shreddin’ list is right across from me! I’m pysched! There is so much to say but I guess thanks will have to do…Thanks.

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On April 8, 2009 @ 5:03 am Tony Kontney said:

This really helped because now there is alot of bad people out there with drugs and my brother os hanging out with them and he is only 13, he is very important to me and i am younger then him and my parent say to him set a good path for yor little brother and i always wantted to be him but not now. Thank you,
Tony Kontney

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On April 16, 2009 @ 4:28 am kayleen clute said:

the video opens and then stops after a few moments…sorry I missed it

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On April 23, 2009 @ 12:43 am Amanda said:

I am in an orchestra and have a couple friends that I would love to tell them about Jesus. Sam is Mr. Popular and usally ingnores me I know he needs Jesus and I try to tell me the best I can. Carli is in the orchestra also I talked with her on facebook and I told her about Jesus and she said “Well I’m not religous” I tried to explain to her everything the best I could but she hasn’t talked to me since! Another one is Sarah, I know Sarah and she is an okay friend but I don’t talk to her much. Sarah is a bit weird she likes to dress up in goth/emo/zootsuit and some other weird things. But she I really think she needs Jesus. But I haven’t told her anything I’m a bit scared.

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On April 29, 2009 @ 8:38 pm Cyndi_Hagan said:

Dear Greg,
We’ve been watching GOSPEL Journey Maui in youth group and I’ve gotta tell you…it’s having a humongous impact on me. I honestly wish that I could meet you in person and shake your hand because of what your doing with these teenagers. They’re really deep conversations. But, my youth pastor is awesome too(: Still, just once, I’d like to go to a Dare2Share convention and listen to what you have to say. I’ve had a lot of questions about my faith, and my relationship with God. I’m really confused, but I’m scared to ask my youth pastor Kurt, or his wife Sarah.

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On May 5, 2009 @ 1:29 pm Cyndi_Hagan said:

We get to watch day 4 Wednesday, hopefully. I’ve been reading more of Shreddin’ the Gnar and it’s amazing. The questions on page 68 really got me thinking..honestly, why are there so many religions? Does anybody know for real? I know they say some stuff in history, but is it from the Bible? I guess I need to read the Bible more to find out…and I have a question. Is Christianity a religion? That has me confused..I was talking to one of my friends, and I told him I was a Christian and he said “Yeah, but what’s your religion?” I was so confused.

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May 5th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Hey Cyndi! You know your question about Christianity and religion? Well, what your friend said is totally cool ’cause Christianity isn’t a religion…it’s a relationship! What’s really amazing is that we don’t deserve it, but since God knows we can’t get to Heaven by being good or doing this or that and because He loves us He sent Jesus! Jesus did all this incredible stuff and when the religious guys of His time killed Him and He rose again and set us free!! Isn’t that cool? Check out Ephesians 2:8-9. Hope this helps…prayin’ for you!

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May 6th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Oh wow, Abbie, thanks. So it’s a relationship? Cool. I’ll read Ephesians, that’d be sure to help. And I know about Jesus dying for us, but I’ve never heard the term ‘He set us free!’ And the thing is, he did! We’re free of sin because of Him, and His love for us(: That’s sooo amazing! Thanks for the prayer, and I’ll pray for you too! And, Abbie, you know another thing that’s cool? We’re two people, that don’t really know each other in person, but we know each other in Christ! That is so awesome!

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May 13th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Yeah, that is cool Cyndi! And thanks for the prayer, I need it! Ephesians is a great book! God’s got so much for you and it’s all because of Jesus that we have LIFE!!
Guess I’ll see you in heaven, huh?

Cyndi_Hagan Reply:
May 16th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Yes. I’m making sure of that I’m trying really, really hard to better myself so I can be with Him and all my loved ones and all of my brothers and sisters in Christ

Abbie Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Just remember, it’s not about what you do, but what He’s done. The only way to Heaven is through Jesus! Praise God for that!

Cyndi_Hagan Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Oh, believe me I do.
He’s sooo uhmayzing.
Can’t wait to see him, for real, for the first time, in person xD
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On May 12, 2009 @ 8:09 am DJDJ said:

Hey Greg Stier,

I went to the one of the Dare 2 Share weekends that happened this year in Washington DC. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!! Fee was an amazing, but I was wondering if they had a website because I can not find one. Anyway, our youth group at the church I go to were watching the Dare 2 Share Gospel Journey Maui series and they were talking about our purpose in life and it inspired me to write a poem. After writing it, I showed it to my youth pastor, and read it to our Wednesday night bible study and my youth pastor said I should show you. I just hope it shows up ok coming from my computer to the forum.

Purpose
By Daniel Jones

What is a purpose?
Is it something deep or on the surface?
Is it a legacy?
Is it something we can even see?
Is it something we can understand?
Or is it written by another hand?
For every character in a story there is a beginning and an end
And the in between is shown by how their time they spend
Because of this is makes sense to me
There is something bigger I have yet to see
Purpose is something we all have a drive for
It is something we look for through open doors
To me, my purpose can not be written by my human hand
Because there are so many things I do not understand
Because of the fact that I am a mortal man
So I leave my purpose and story to be written by the God of all books
For he knows the grand scheme and how it looks
I leave my purpose for his making
Only then is it mine for the taking
So I will live my life to his purpose
In hopes that HIS signature will be seen on the surface

From Your Brother In Christ,
DJ

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May 14th, 2009 at 11:14 am
that is an AWSOME poem dj.

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May 18th, 2009 at 7:47 am
thanks

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May 16th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
That is such a great poem, DJ(:
I like the last bit, ‘I leave my purpose for his making, only then is it mine for the taking’
that’s an awesome part(:

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May 18th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Thanks, I have more Christian poems if you want me to post them. My cousin is in college for a creative writting major and she said one of my Christian poems was like college level or something her teacher would make them read for an assignment.

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May 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
That’d be awesome if you could post them.
You’ve got some mad talent.
It’s great.
and college level sounds awesome!!!
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On May 26, 2009 @ 7:43 am DJDJ said:

Here is the poem that was said to be college level by my cousin.

The Leaf in the Storm
By Daniel Jones

There was a leaf that fell from the trees
That was taken off by a violent stormâ€™s breeze
Who was taken by the wind and blown away
Who grabbed anything he could, to find a place to stay
While flying through some trees with whom he was familiar
He tried to grab onto a twig which was made of timber
The twig could not handle the weight of the leaf and the wind
So the twig broke off and left the leaf to where ever it would end
The leaf continued to be carried off by the current of air
And thought to himself â€œThis is so not fairâ€
â€œWhat did I do to deserve this?â€ he asked
As more and more trees, the storm took him passed
The leaf tried grabbing a bigger branch
Hoping it would give him a better chance
But the branch continued to shift in the blustery weather
And kicked the leaf off, like a bird flapping off a feather
The leaf continued in the gust as it blew into town
Where he saw cars and streets as he looked down
The gust threw the leaf into the chaos under
The leaf panicked and began to wonder
â€œWill this storm ever go away?â€
â€œWill I ever find a safe place to stay?â€
He thought to himself as he tumbled across the streets
Wondering what kind of fate he would meet
He violently blew over a curve after it hit his head
And wondered if he were better off dead
The leaf blew into a church lawn
Where he found himself still being the windâ€™s pawn
He blew along the ground until he grabbed onto a rock
Which when he looked, found it to be a cement block
A block which was in the shape of a cross
Where the leaf found hope when all hope was loss
The leaf held to the cross with all his might
And the storm blew off after the violent night
The next day the sun came and shown through the clouds as it pierced
The darkness that beat the leaf all night and was oh so fierce
The leaf was safe and secure at the cross
It never had to worry about any wind it came across
The cross held strong in itâ€™s place
And held the leaf there with all of itâ€™s grace
So where will you go when faced with a storm force gale?
Will you try to do it on your own and face more hail?
Will you try to do things that are normal and hope it goes away?
And continue to get the same bad result day after day
Or will do what the leaf did and go to the cross
And find the hope to face the storm when all hope is lost?

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May 26th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Wow, that’s an amazing poem!
Now I feel like a leaf…and I’m NOT going to try it myself and face more hail.
Awesome illustration

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May 27th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Thanks. My cousin said it was a good illustration as well.

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Cyndi_Hagan Reply:
May 27th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
It is! Would you mind if I printed it out and shared it with my friends at my youth group? I’m sure they would like it, and my youth pastor would too(:

DJDJ Reply:
May 29th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Just as long as you keep my name as the one who wrote it, and you don’t claim it as your own poem. I dont mind.

Cyndi_Hagan Reply:
June 6th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Alright thank you.
and I wouldn’t do that.
That’s really low to do to a preson y’know?
and I can’t even write that well haha.
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On June 22, 2009 @ 9:02 am Jocee said:

This doesn’t really have to do with Dare 2 Share but I’m so excited I just wanna tell everyone!!!
I just got back from SMI (Student Mission Internship) with my youth group and it was spectacular!!! I’ve always loved mission trips and at my church SMI is a high school only program, so I’ve been looking forward to this since fourth grade!!! I was so excited and had such high expectations but God blew all of them out of the water. The program begins with an informational retreat and then you apply to be a part of the program, so they can see if you are commited and stuff. Once you are a part of the program you sign a commitment saying you won’t listen to secular music, watch movies with any sexual content and you won’t do things or go places that could hurt your testimony. Then we go through an intense 15 week training program and let me tell you, I grew so close to God during that time it was remarkable. Then we finally went on the trip on June 13 and we taught a few Vacation Bible Schools in the high desert area. It was amazing and definitely unforgettable because we spent basically ten hours with these kids (2 hour VBS’s, 5 days, you can figure out the math there haha. In the first two hours we intoduced God and His love to these kids. Then in the third fourth, fifth, and sixth hours we were showing them how God loves them but can’t be with sin and that’s what seperates us from Him, but because Jesus died and rose again He paid the price for our sins and we can be with Him!!! Going to Dare 2 Share in February for the past three years has helped me because I can effectivly share my faith useing the GOSPEL and other tools. In the seventh and eighth hour all of the kids at my team’s first location had commited to a relationship with Christ. It was amazing and inspiring, these kids have so little and they go through so much, one of our girls was telling us how she is mocked and made fun of my everyone of her friends because she is the only Christian her age. In the ninth and tenth hours we were playing games and having fun and teaching these kids how to grow in Christ. Also it was in those hours that we had to say goodbye. That was heartbreaking because after only ten hours we had built relationships with these kids. I was attatched to these kids and I didn’t wanna let go, even though we still could keep in touch, we left knowing we might not see them until we get to Heaven. Then one of my team mates brought something up that made me realize that we had no reason to cry or be sad. If anything we should be filled with joy!!! Why? Because we built lifetime relationships with these kids and that’s great, but we also helped them build an eternal relationship with their Father. And that is definitely NOT something to be sad about.

This trip taught me so much, the power of prayer, the urgancy of sharing the Gospel, and so much more. All in all this was a life changing experience I will never forget! And all the glory goes to God for everything that happened there.

SMI 2009
Teams-6
Locations-12
Attendance-246
Professions of Faith-113!!!!!!!!!

113 children were accepted into the family of God in one week! God is to amazing for words to describe.

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Greg Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
What do you mean this doesn’t have anything to do with D2S? You are Shreddin’ big time!

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Jocee Reply:
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Thankyou
It was amazing and a life changing experience!
God did so much there and I’m so happy I got the privlage of sharing Him and letting Him work through me to teach those kids.
I can’t wait till next year’s SMI.
But can you please be praying for those kids?
The ones who accepted Christ: That God will put good influences in their lives to build them up
And the ones who didn’t: That someone will come along and water the seed we planted.
Thankyou

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On June 29, 2009 @ 9:58 am cheyenne hewkin said:

greg,I loved Dare2Share this year! I am not so nervous when i share my faith with my friends anymore.Our youth group is watching gospel journy maui and it is awesome!oh and by the way or youth group consist of just three people! I can’t wait for next years Dare2Share blaze!

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On June 29, 2009 @ 10:01 am cheyenne hewkin said:

greg iam trying as hard as i can to keep shredding the gnar! please pray for me

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On June 29, 2009 @ 10:14 am cheyenne h said:

greg i have tried really hard to get my friend to believe in christ and to come to church but she won’t come because she said it is boring. she kinda makes me feel like i can’t bring anyone to christ even if i tried really hard. I am about ready to give up! What should I do? I really need help

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Abbie Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Don’t give up!!!!!! Jesus didn’t call us to play church and I’m not saying that’s what you are doing, but YOU bring the Gospel to HER. It’s not us that makes someone believe, the Holy Spirit does that, Jesus makes that heart change. We just kinda lay it all out there in love so they see who Jesus is. And yeah, church is important, so keep encouraging her….check out 1st Corintheans 1:26-2:16 I hope it helps and I’m prayin’ for you!

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On August 10, 2009 @ 7:29 pm Bekah said:

I’ve been really shreding the gnar with one of my friend’s over the past few years and at one point, she was praying every night. I promised to give her a bible when she turned 13, and then i thought it’d be best to wait untill she’s 15 right before her birthday.She didn’t know about this, and now she’s moved and is not talking to me. She swears and has changed a lot, she thinks its great who she has turned out to be but i know it’s not who she really is. I really thought that God had brought her into my life so i could share my faith with her, but now i’m not really sure what to do. We did not meet in the best way, to tell the truth at first i hated her. We’ve had A LOT of fights but I’m always there for her, but now I’m thinking about ending our friendship because she’s talked me into not going to church a few times. I’d really like some advice on what to do.

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August 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am
we are told to bare with each other and forgive and restore our brother gently. just because she’s different now than she was, doesn’t mean God’s done with her… or you. i’d encourage you to talk with your youth leader.

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On September 12, 2009 @ 9:16 am childofgod said:

i love jesus and there is no one who can change that. i gave my life to jesus on april 3 2009 on a friday night at the dare to share conference at the sears center. i am a chriatian teen

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On September 17, 2009 @ 4:45 pm elisa said:

for the past couple of days i have been trying to talk 2 my friends of the word ogod bet its seems 2 hard because they keep on telling me that we have only one life and that we need to have fun and not care about the workld and stuff like that but i got 2 ofmy friends to understand me and told her mom to try to go to a babtizd chirch and to stop going to a cathilice church so she is trying to con vens her mom and im telling ger to try to go with me to DARE 2 SHARE.

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On September 17, 2009 @ 4:53 pm elisa said:

I LOVE GOD and one or nothing is going to chang that i have my life and sol to god on februrary 29 2008 on one of the conference of DARE 2 SHARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW I AM A TEEN THAT BELONGS TO JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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