You have 100 times more influence on your friends than a stranger does! THE Cause Circle is a simple tool that will help you be purposeful about sharing Jesus' message with your friends. It will help you identify your friends, then remind you to pray, to pursue spiritual conversations and to persuade them to consider Jesus' message.

Here's how it works.

Write the names of your friends in the center of THE Cause Circle. Identify three friends you want to share the gospel with, then write their names in the "pray" section of the circle. As you find opportunities to pursue spiritual conversations with these friends, advance their name to the "pursue" area of the circle. Then go back and add another friend's name to the "pray" section. When you have opportunities to go deeper in your spiritual conversations with your friends, move those friends forward along the circle to the "persuade" section. Your hope is that over time you will be able to persuade all your friends to:

• Accept Christ
• Belong to a Church
• Commit to THE Cause

You have 100 times more influence on your friends than a stranger does! THE Cause Circle is a simple tool that will help you be purposeful about sharing Jesus' message with your friends. It will help you identify your friends, then remind you to pray, to pursue spiritual conversations and to persuade them to consider Jesus' message.

Is God calling you to reach your friends with the gospel and unleash THE Cause at your school?

A great first step is to "adopt" your school and show others that you are serious about seeing the uncontainable message of God’s grace spread at your school. You can do this by going to everyschool.com and signing up your school today!

This partner site will allow you to join with other teens and groups from all across the country who are relationally and relentlessly reaching their generation for Christ and mobilizing other to do the same. Take your stand to reach your school with the gospel! By adopting your school, you will also be helping Dare 2 Share keep a pulse on where THE Cause is being unleashed. Go to everyschool.com to sign up your school. More than one individual or group can adopt each school.

Dare 2 Share's vision is to mobilize teenagers on every one of the 67,342 high schools and middles schools in America who are relationally and relentlessly reaching their generation for Christ and mobilizing others to do the same.

Firestarter relates what can happen when just one teen is passionate about the mission of Jesus to reach the lost. Jared is an atheist with an attitude. Kailey is a new believer with a temper. Sparks fly as the uncontainable message of the gospel spreads across their high school campus. Through Jared and Kailey’s story, teens will be challenged to share the gospel with their friends and reach their own school with Jesus’ uncontainable message of grace.

What Others Are Saying About Firestarter

Firestarter hits the nail on the head as to the current state of teens and youth ministry. It meets teens exactly where they are and with its realistic characters and situations, gives them the inspiration and encouragement they need to share their faith, reach their friends and make a difference for eternity. Firestarter WILL start a fire in everyone who reads it!

Phil McClay, Youth Leader

The front line for THE Cause is each and every high school and middle school across America. As you advance THE Cause at your school, Dare 2 Share wants to serve as a “base camp” for you, providing you with a place to regroup, refuel, rearm and reenergize so you can return to the front lines ready to relationally and relentlessly reach teens for Christ.

But as you serve on the front lines, we encourage you to find others to join you in advancing THE Cause. The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, 12:

Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their work:

If one falls down,
his friend can help him up.
But pity the man who falls
and has no one to help him up!

Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

So invite your friends to join you as you advance THE Cause at your school. And help spread THE Cause to every school in America. Here are a few ideas to consider as you seek to bring others alongside you.

• Post a link to THE Cause video on your Facebook, MySpace or web page: http://www.dare2share.org/thecause/.
• Set up a THE Cause Facebook group for your school and invite others to join. Share stories, ideas, strategies and prayer requests with each other as together you seek to reach your school for Christ.
• Join Dare 2 Share's THE Cause Facebook fan page and invite your friends to become fans too.
• Help your friends who are new believers grow in their faith so they become disciples who make disciples too. Check out the Now That You Believe Bible study to help your friends grow in their relationship with Christ and commit to THE Cause as well.
• Get your youth group on board to launch THE Cause at all the schools represented in your youth group.

These are just a few ideas to get your creative juices going. Ask God to show you what He wants you to do to spread THE Cause – His Cause of making disciples who make disciples!