EXTRA! Concepts for Adults – Treasuring Who God Treasures – Particular Focus Session

**EXTRA helps the group plans within the Bible Research for Life chief guides.**

Date: January 19, 2025

Treasuring Who God Treasures

The Level: Life is a present from God we’re to guard and protect.

Get Into the Research

Share the next after discussing the opening query.

The Supreme Courtroom’s determination two and a half years in the past to overturn Roe v. Wade apparently has not precipitated Individuals to treasure unborn life extra. Tragically, abortions in America have elevated since Roe was overturned. Month-to-month reported abortion totals hovered round 85,000 main as much as the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group ruling. By early 2024, the month-to-month whole had risen to roughly 100,000.

The overturning of Roe has shifted the strategies used to acquire abortions. As some states enacted abortion bans, abortion tablet use ticked up. Earlier than the Dobbs ruling, roughly half of US abortions utilized an abortion tablet. Now it’s about two-thirds. Most of the prescriptions for abortion medication are obtained by way of telemedicine—about 1 in 10 by the summer time of 2024. Journey to acquire abortion additionally has elevated. Funds generated by pro-choice teams assist pay journey bills for some abortion seekers, and abortion-friendly states bordering states with bans have seen heavy abortion visitors. For instance, twice as many Texas residents obtained abortions in 2023 in New Mexico as New Mexico residents did. Equal numbers of Texans and Kansans acquired abortions in Kansas.

These stark realities present that altering legal guidelines is barely a part of the battle for all times. God’s individuals additionally should assist their neighbors perceive that God treasures life and crafted it by hand.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-roe-dobbs-states-data-5632f60aa1d797bcdec9fbc77a385413

Get Into the Research [Option from the Advanced Bible Study Teacher Guide, p. 44]

As you talk about the other ways Moses has been depicted in tradition, share this checklist of flicks about Moses. NOTE: This checklist isn’t an endorsement of those motion pictures. A number of the motion pictures take nice liberty with the biblical textual content and a few distort and profane biblical reality. We offer this checklist as some extent of debate and to focus on how the story from Exodus has captured the eye of individuals via the years.

Get Into the Research (Choice from Grownup Chief Information)

Upfront, play a video clip of somebody taking trash and turning it right into a treasure. Then ask Query #1.

Research the Bible

As you talk about query 3 (level 2 on p. 87 of the DDG), share the next.

The Lily Home in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic, takes significantly God’s cost to guard human life. With poverty rampant and prostitution authorized, human trafficking is ample within the Dominican Republic. The Lily Home rescues girls and women from trafficking, then provides them housing, counseling, job coaching, and the gospel.

Human trafficking assaults even younger teenagers within the Dominican Republic. Although underage prostitution is prohibited, determined households may even see their teenage daughters as their solely hope of survival. That launches their life as trafficking victims. Missionary Erica Jude sought to counter the issue by founding the Lily Home in 2009. She introduced girls off the streets and ministered to them whereas offering daycare for his or her kids. In 2021, the ministry shifted. That’s when orphanages and authorities amenities started contacting the Lily Home about taking in women who can be launched into the world at age 16. The ministry obliged gladly. The women put together for productive, godly lives by studying companies like jewelry-making, baking, and cosmetology.

The Lily Home is a part of the missions group SCORE Worldwide. This ministry to trafficked Dominicans is certainly one of some ways Christians are defending human life from the womb to the tomb, acknowledging that nobody deserves to be handled as a commodity.

https://thealabamabaptist.org/ministry-offers-refuge-job-training-for-vulnerable-women/

The week’s author for Additional is David Roach. David is pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Saraland, Alabama. He and his spouse Erin have three kids.

Extra Questions

Icebreaker

What messages about infants and youngsters are being communicated in our tradition?
When have you ever felt the necessity to step in and shield somebody who wanted assist?
When have you ever seen a pure marvel that took your breath away?
How will we shield the issues which can be vital to us?
What’s a meals you take pleasure in that many others don’t?
What’s one ingredient that ruins any dish for you?

Exodus 1:16-17

The place do you see the spirit of Pharaoh on show in our tradition?
How does fearing God change the way in which we regard life?
What makes human life so helpful?
The place do you see lives threatened or handled as lower than helpful at present?
Why is the subject of the sanctity of life so divisive in our tradition?
What does it appear like to have a wholesome concern of God?
What would the implications be for us if we feared God greater than our rulers?

Exodus 1:22–2:3

What alternatives exist in our neighborhood for us to take motion on behalf of susceptible individuals?
What techniques have been put in place at present that devalue or diminish the significance of human life?
When is it okay to disobey the legislation?
When have you ever needed to go away one thing valuable to you in God’s fingers?
What does it imply to worth life?
What actions can we as people/a bunch/a church take to guard others?
How have you ever seen God use others to guard human life at present?

Exodus 2:4-10

How can believers take part in offering for others, particularly moms of at-risk infants, the handicapped, and the aged?
Who has been an instance to you within the methods they treasure human life?
What are some particular steps we are able to take to treasure human life in our neighborhood?
How did Moses’s sister and mom exhibit their religion in God via their actions?
In what methods can the church shield all life?