Video Transcript: Be Daring

Alright, we're at the last session, Henry, maybe this is the thing that will change  your life. Are you willing to step out of your comfort zone? Dare to be different.  Dare to take these principles and make them real in your life, courage. Dare to  

do something different dare to connect with this person you admire? And is very  interesting, but you think they're out of your league and why would they want to  bother you dare to step out with this group and tell a story about something that  

happened to your life? Will it work where you'll be able to, you know, put this  story in a way that people will find interesting. What What if you fail? What if you lose your place? What? Dare to, dare to be a Daniel, dare to be enthusiastic  when you're in a situation where the whole room is devoid of any enthusiasm  whatsoever? And will people follow? Or will they think you're crazy God will be  with you. I can do all things through Him who strengthens. You know, in some  ways, I think I remember going on a mission trip when I didn't dare I didn't know  if I could speak. I didn't know if I could do evangelism. I didn't know if I could  lead anything. And I went on a mission trip. And I went out there because I  needed to be forced to try things. I went on my own and I gotta go knock on  people's doors, right. But I thought if I sign up for like, the Marine Corps, they're  gonna make you do stuff. And that's what happened. And, but when I got there,  all the things that were supposed to like I was supposed to do Sunday school,  and all of a sudden, that job got taken by somebody else, I was supposed to do  something else. And that job gets, all of a sudden, I was left with nothing. I  didn't, you know, like, I remember sitting on the curb saying, God, I wanted to  come out here and try things. But now nothing is there. Right? And so I had to  make a decision to am I going to sit on the curb here and wait to see what  happens? Or do I dare to step out? Do I dare say, I'm gonna leave the puppet  thing, right? When I am not confident about that. I've never done anything like  that. I don't know, if I didn't do it, I could probably make a fool of myself. And  then all of a sudden, is I stepped out, all of a sudden things came flying my way.  And all of a sudden, the person that was going to do the Sunday school said no, I'm not doing this, all of a sudden, I got my class. So I borrowed a tent. And I put  up a tent inside of the room inside thing and we're gonna get in the tent, we get  the flash light out. I mean, I was gonna go all out. I just, you know, I remember  working all night, my lesson for the next day, you know, prepared, I prepared for  like three hours, right? I got in that tent. And I used like, material that I prepared  for three hours, it was done in 10 minutes, right? Now, what do I do, I threw  myself into this. And I just, I'm gonna try anything and everything. I tried  preaching, I tried everything. Because I stepped out and I was like, I am going to make if I'm going to make a fool, I'm going to make a fool for the Lord, you  know, I'm gonna die trying. So if you want to be interesting, at some point, you  have to be able to step out of your comfort zone. You're taking classes at CLI,  you know, daring to take a class and you know, will you succeed or not? Who  knows? When you step out, and you take this class and maybe some of you 

should take Hebrew or Greek or something and you're like, No, I could never do  something like that. Maybe you can't. Or maybe you can, you're not going to  know unless you step out. Try it. So, to dare, here's what I encourage you to do  is get out a piece of paper or your computer or your iPhone or your smartphone  and write down after you reflected on this course now, and even before maybe  write some things down. What is your dare plan? The dare have come up with a  dare plan a dare plan like what is going to be you know so you look at the  categories of what we talked about whether it meeting interesting people or  learning from when new interesting ideas or interesting possibilities. You can  even go through the various things. What's your dare plan for interesting people  or dare plan for interesting possibility or what do you what are your list of  questions? Yeah, what would help Write down questions that in that you're there to memorize in Professor Elzinga talked about being in the tent for three hours  of preparing yourself, what tent are you going to create? And you don't even  know where that's gonna go. But know this, you're gonna have a story to tell.  You're in a Naval School is even if you fail utterly and miserably, right, thank God sometimes you do because that is a great story. Right? We have a phrase that  we say and now you're past 65 and I'm 60. Now, it's a phrase we don't want to  detour. So we're not we're narrating our lives. And we are young. Okay, and we  don't know if the Lord's gonna take us home at any day. But there's always an  attitude. You know, we have more to do. More to dare to dream, dare to do dare  to talk about dare to accomplish in Christ Jesus. I can do all things through Him  who strengthens me.