This isn't the stick your tongue against a frozen pole type of Dare. This is a Dare for each of us to step out of our comfort zone and serve someone.
Each day you will receive a dare that you agree to fulfill that day and then post your experience, the good, the bad and the ugly in the comment section below.
Imagine what would happen if we all decided to take the Dare Challenge...
Don't just imagine it... Do it!
I Dare you too!
* To sign up for the Dare Challenge please email us @ news@lifepointvineyard.com
Thanks!
12 comments:
It felt great to write a note of gratitude-I had no problem sharing on paper how this person impacted my life-I need to do this more often.
I was working at a table at Kidd Coffee when I got my dare. So the next person that walked in got his coffee free! He was shocked, I assured him it wasn't a weird thing and we had a great conversation about God! Very cool.
I've done this before. It's fun! What's really neat is if the person who receives this also passes it on to the next person...to show God's love!
A co-worker asked if I was running out for lunch because she had used her lunch time to run an errand and didn't eat. I don't typically run out because most of the time if I wait to late to go I get a parking spot about mile out from the building. I only get 30 min and we are watched on our time. It was late, and I hesitated and thought.. ok here's my chance. I ran out and hurried back and sure enough there were cars circling the lot trying to find spots. About to give up and go park on the other side of the building, I see a woman I work with walk out. She was leaving early for an appt. I asked if I could get her spot. It was about 4 spaces from the door! Such a little thing but I laughed out loud. God rewards in the smallest of ways and cares about.. yes.. parking spaces. I came in, gave the girl her food and refused to let her pay me. I explained it was a small token of God's love:) Very cool all around.
Dare one challenge...wrote a note of gratitude and forgiveness to a family member I was having issues with, and having been praying over this troubling issue asking god to erectify our falling out. How ironic the first dare was to write letter of gratitude and reconsiliation. Knock and the door shall open, ask and you shall receive, but it is up to us to go through the door when it opens.
Dare two, Wow!! did not expect reaction received or total look of unbelief when I told cashier that I was paying for gas for the young man in front of me at the gas station. The young mans response was "Whats the catch? No one does things like this without wanting something" My response to him was "this is a gift from god", again he asked whats the catch..I told him to take for what it is a gift from god... still in disbelief as I paid for his gas. He look at me and said thanks. The cashier told me that was a cool thing to do. As I left the store the young man was pulling out from pump, He and his wife and/or girlfriend wave to me, and I notice the two baby seats in the back of car. The feeling of being a blessing to someone overwhelm me...No longer did he have the look of disbelief as he waved away..
When good dares go bad.... I did not get a chance to take care of Dare 2 on Tuesday. I was never out anywhere buying anything. However, I was at the grocery store today, better late than never. As I collected my items, I decided that I was definitely going to follow through on this dare. While I was checking out, I noticed two other customers in the check-out next to mine. One woman had finished scanning her items and was trying to bag them. The gentleman behind her was losing patience with her bagging pace. The two of them began exchanging verbal barbs, and I thought, "that guy needs to know the love of God today." (I will be honest here. As an added bonus, he had three items, the woman behind me in my line had about $200 worth of stuff.) When I approached the man and offered to pay for his items, he was a bit apprehensive and wanted to know the catch. I told him there was no catch, just showing God's love in a practical way. He didn't seem moved in any way, just glad he didn't have to crack open his own wallet. I quickly paid and began to walk away when the woman who was in line in front of him happened to walk back by. That's when she gave me the stink eye. She was giving me a dirty look, I guess, because I was being nice to a guy she had just been fighting with. I had no idea what to say to her, so I smiled, grabbed my cart and headed for the door.
I'm a day behind in my dare's so today I was paying for someone's meal-the guy was shocked and as I was walking away he said I have to call my wife about this-she'll never believe it.
Tomorrow I am off to my neighbors to invite them to LPV this weekend
Today is Thursday...this morning I dropped my daughter off at preschool and decided to swing through the McDonald's drive-through for some breakfast. (So far none of the dares have been about healthy eating!) As I pulled up to the window to pay for my food, the cashier told me that the person in front of me had already covered it. Wow! This has never happened to me before, but I remembered that this was Tuesday's dare and I wonder if someone who was blessed on Tuesday decided to pay it forward.
In turn, I paid for the meal behind me. The cashier said he had never had this happen before and he was happy to know there were people doing good things in a difficult time. I told him it was an honor to serve God by serving others.
these stories are so inspiring! the first dare, i wrote an email to my dad thanking him for all he's done for me over the last several months. he also got the dare. so...he responded to my email "back at ya". we're pathetic. ;)
then, the next dare...i was going to invite my cousin to church. except my dad beat me to it.
i'm too humiliated to tell how the rest of the dares went. i'm a dare chicken. could we play truth or dare instead? i pick truth. the truth is...i'm so glad i joined a reset group!
I was very up and down on the dares, I thought I would be totally unable to invite anyone to church on Sunday, since I would be gone myself this weekend. But Wednesday I met a guy at work who I had seen once at the Springdale Vineyard, years ago. Not thinking of inviting him, since he already went to a church, I asked if he still attended and he said, "Once in a while." He said he lives a long way away fom there. I told him I attended Lifepoint and it turns out he lives about a mile from Lifepoint. So I invited him, but warned him I would not be there. So that one suprised me!
Friday we were dared to help someone and I thought, "easy" I am always helping random people. It seemed I would end the week with a ridiculously easy dare. Usually it is old ladies, I am not sure why that is but I have helped numerous old ladies in airports around the world, either I find them or they find me. Friday I was leaving town for the weekend to go hang out with some friends, shoot some guns and basically have guy time in the woods. A man who truely bugs me was there and my first thought was that I would avoid him as much as possible. But he came up to me first thing and asked if he could sit by me and the Lord told me, "He admires you." So all weekend we hung out and I was kind to him despite the fact that he truly bugs me. I could tell that he really does look up to me, I have no idea why, but I knew Jesus wanted me to be his friend. A tough way to end the week but I did it! And I absolutely do not feel superior, I know that I am as big a pain to God as I can possibly be, but he continues to tolerate me. It was simply time for me to do the same thing for someone else.
I really enjoyed the dare challenge last week. I have always been the type of person who would follow through with dares if someone said "I dare you to!" This was a good experience for me to step outside my comfort zone and grow as a Christian. I was not able to do every dare but I did the ones that I could. After reading the previous blog about McDonalds it made me laugh because I was also at a McDonalds and completed my dare on Tuesday. I am so glad I accomplished some of the dares last week and I feel like I have grown so much. Gods love is truly amazing.
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