Here, “God wants you to set up some protective barriers to keep you out of the danger zone” became “God wants you to set up guardrails to keep you ON the road and OUT of danger.” I spend a lot of time rethinking the bottom line – trying to make it shorter, more memorable, and (if needed) closer to the Scripture.(Here, I cut out the part of Scripture and application on drinking – and subbed in a different illustration – because we planned to add a week and focus on that issue as its own session). In this case, I cut out about half the talk, condensed/rewrote some, and ended with something about 2000 words or 40% of the original size. Since we try to keep our midweek talks to only 15 minutes, I do a good bit of editing.I read through the outline structure in detail (to get an idea of the key points and flow) and then read through the whole text, starting to mark what I can skip, keep, or change.Try to remember the great, 4-part advice under “How to find your own voice!” and pray for God’s leading here as you prepare!.Here’s how I handled the first session of the “Guardrails” series. The thing I love about XP3 stuff – its thoroughness, detail, and communication flow – also presents its biggest challenge: how to take all this material and own it and contextualize it for your church environment and the students you get to love. We target the content first to high schoolers, then edit it for middle schoolers, and then condense and rewrite the questions for our small group leaders (we shoot for only 6-8 questions).Since the same person speaks at both environments, one person primarily reworks the content for each week.
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