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Last night, Danny, one of our excellent leaders did the “need” sin talk. The “need” talk is often used the week before, or the night before, the traditional sin talk to help introduce the impact of sin on our society and our personal lives. This theme is built upon the following week with a talk that focuses more on the impact of sin on our relationship with the Lord. The need talk is a good transition to help people think about sin and its reality.

Danny opened up his talk with references to some of the recent news in the paper and on TV. He didn’t need to, but in the past I’ve even brought in that day’s newspaper to show them how sin is so easy to spot. Then he transitioned briefly about some things that have hurt him, then he played the video below. After the video he walked them through Romans 3:23 and a few other ideas about sin. He closed with some very open sharing about his own life and how sin has impacted it. Finally he gave them a challenge and introduced the talk for the next week and about our hope in Christ as well.

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A few weeks ago I mentioned that our YL region is focusing on the book of John for the entire year. Club, campaigners, leader meetings, region meetings, devotionals, as much as possible. I have written before how much I like going through the gospels in club for talks and campaigners. I know at least one club that is now going through the seven “I am” statements in John for club this semester.

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Here is the seventh installment of Sync through Mark…

Here are the first club talk and campaigner plans for Sync through Mark.

For years I have been helping people do club talks. The main error most people make it not starting with the main point and the core scripture. I decided to put together a different approach to message preparation.

The "TalkPrep" is basically a Bible study that leads to a club talk. It forces you to start with the scripture, determine your main point, then your challenge and intro. There are also lots of helps along the way.

This is perfect for the person doing their first or second talk, and also for those who want to improve their preparation and speaking.

I’m considering making more of these, I’d love your feedback!

So tonight we did Pizza club. Not Pizza Olympics, we’ll do that one later. This was just a pizza theme. Psychic Bambi was hilarious, so was smell, touch, taste.

One of the things I did in the talk was to show a picture of Jesus out of focus and then I focused it as an illustration of getting a more accurate picture of Jesus at YL.

Click here for Pizza Club