[This post is a Guest Post by Corey Grunewald.  Corey does Video Production at Faith Lutheran Church, is pursuing a career in youth ministry, and also does some phenomenal hand-drawn design work.]

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The message is from the conclusion of our 3-week series entitled Truth or Dare.  This series focused on the importance of both knowing the truth of the gospel and daring to live it out in our daily lives.  While the game truth or dare allows us to choose one or the other, our faith requires us to choose both.

The Truth Only…

When I think of what it would like like to live a life, that solely focused on the truth of the gospel, but never dared to live it out, I can’t wrap my mind around how that can be justified.

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[These message notes are from the Truth or Dare series]

This week we continued our 3-week series entitled Truth or Dare.  The idea of the series is that as Christians we need to both know and grow in the truth of the Gospel and also dare to live it out in our day-to-day lives.  While the game truth or dare allows us to choose one or the other, our faith requires that we do both.

Risks, American Idols, and a Bunch of Lions

When I was a young kid, I was pretty much afraid of anything.  I was afraid of swimming, even with a life-jacket on.  I was afraid of eating taco bell; I actually cried when I was forced to try taco bell for the first time.  When I was a kid, everything seemed to be too big a risk.  In life, there will always be certain things that have some element of risk to them.  And this is especially true when it comes to our faith.  There are risks that comes with living out your faith.  The risks may be losing respect, friends, popularity, or something else.  Taking the truth of the gospel seriously, to the point that we are willing to live it out everywhere, can sometimes be risky.

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[These message notes are from the Truth or Dare series]

This week we began a 3-week series entitled Truth or Dare.  The series is all about looking at the importance of knowing and growing in the truth of the Gospel and also daring to live out our faith in our daily lives.  While the game Truth or Dare is all about deciding which fate might be less uncomfortable, our Christian faith expects us not to choose one over the other, but instead to not only know the truth but to live it out.

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Truth or Dare is a game all about making a difficult decision; which will be less uncomfortable – being truthful about a difficult question or following through with the dare presented to you?  I remember not knowing what I would choose when playing the game and being frozen as I tried to determine, should I focus on the truth or focus on the dare.  As Christians, it is crucial that we spend time both knowing and growing in the truth and daring to live out that truth in our day-to-day lives.  It is easy to view these things as a choice.  It’s easy to think that we can just choose whichever is less uncomfortable, growing in the truth or living out our faith.  But the reality is that it is not either…or, but a both…and.  We must know and grow in the truth.  And we must dare to live out our faith.

The messages we will be doing over the course of the series will be;

1. The Truth

2. The Dare

3. Truth + Dare