Whats the purpose of making promises?
Theoretically, it means your word can really be trusted on that item. If you tell your friend you’ll do four things, but you attach a promise to one of them, what might that mean about the other three? Hey, no promises! Maybe it’s true, and maybe it’s not-maybe you mean it, and maybe you don’t. PLAY ON WORDS You’ll Need Bibles or another way to make the dare passage visible for an extended period of time (the passage is too long to put on one PowerPoint or MediaShout slide). Divide your students into larger teams (eight to 10), depending on the size of your group. If you have a small group-say six kids-then you’ll have one group! Instruct the groups to turn in their Bibles (make sure each group has at least a couple Bibles) to today’s dare, in Matthew 5:33-37. You read it to them: “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’ But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s t
