EXTRA! Concepts for Adults – All Indicators Level to Jesus – Session 5

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

Date: March 30, 2025

The Signal of His Presence

The Level: In Jesus’s presence, we now have no have to worry.

Get Into the Research

Share the next to introduce The Level:

Since 2023, the world has adopted the romance of Taylor Swift and the NFL’s Travis Kelce. Final month when Kelce’s staff, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, performed in Tremendous Bowl 59, hypothesis started to construct that Kelce is likely to be planning a shock proposal. Every occasion within the couple’s lives, even right down to missed live shows and skipped soccer video games, has left followers questioning whether or not to anticipate a proposal or a break-up. But Tremendous Bowl LIX handed with solely the frustration of a loss for Kelce’s staff. Past the hoped-for engagement information, based on Individuals journal, “there’s intensifying hypothesis that the Chiefs star might retire on the age of 35 after the loss… and is claimed to be genuinely contemplating his NFL future.”

Whereas the world awaits information of the couple’s future plans, there’s one fascinating element about Kelce’s soccer report. Swift made it her apply to attend virtually all “residence” video games, and based on USA At this time, his stats are higher when she is current. “Statistically – and in staff success – Kelce has performed higher on common at residence when Swift is watching him play.” No matter their future, evidently Taylor Swift’s presence brings out one of the best in Travis Kelce’s sport.

Say: “When folks cheer us on, we could react in several methods. Some folks, like Kelce, could carry out higher. Others could really feel elevated stress. Jesus’s nearness doesn’t have to carry up a way of efficiency or perfection– as a substitute, His presence may give confidence, and be a cloak of security.”

Level the group to The Level: “In Jesus’ presence, we now have no have to worry.”

Data for this publish was gleaned from:

Get Into the Research (Choice from Grownup Chief Information)

Prematurely, play a video clip of storms on the Sea of Galilee to assist set up the context for this passage.

Research the Bible

Use the next data as you focus on John 6:21:

When Delta Flight 4819 descended, skidded alongside the runway in flames, flipped over, and misplaced each a wing and tail earlier than coming to relaxation the wrong way up on a Toronto runway, the video of the aircraft crash shocked the world. Passenger Pete Carlson famous the jolt of the “very forceful occasion,” recalling the sound of “concrete and steel.” When the aircraft got here to a halt, everybody on board was suspended the wrong way up of their seats, which one passenger described as hanging “like bats.”

Surprising movies present folks exiting the aircraft into the white panorama and frigid temperatures, as first responders arrived. Whereas eightyeen folks have been injured, there have been no lives misplaced, and the “textbook response” of emergency crews ensured that the aircraft was cleared in comparatively brief order. Wind gusts swirled snow round dazed passengers within the aftermath.

PBS Newshour famous that air visitors controllers had “warned pilots of excessive winds” simply earlier than the aircraft tried to land. Toronto Pearson President & CEO Deborah Flint recognized the “excessive situations on the airport from two separate storms” within the days prior, as a possible contributor to the crash. Along with observations made on the time of the accident, investigators retrieved the cockpit voice recorder and flight information recorder (“black containers”) and are nonetheless working to find out the trigger.

Say: “On this scenario, the passengers exercised braveness, and the emergency crews used the abilities they’d discovered. When there are storms in our lives, we now have classes to be taught and should discover energy to attract on as effectively.”

Data for this publish was gleaned from:

Research the Bible (Choice from the Day by day Discipleship Chief Information)

After studying John 6:16-18 and contemplating how the disciples will need to have felt because the excessive winds rose and the ocean churned, play a video of a storm on the ocean. Give the group a possibility to recall storms they’ve skilled and the way they felt on the time. Because the video continues to play within the background, focus on methods Jesus calms the wind and waves in such conditions.

Research the Bible (Choice from Grownup Chief Information)

Prematurely, play a recording of “It Is Effectively with My Soul.” Even have a volunteer analysis the origin of this hymn by Horatio Spafford. Invite the volunteer to share the music’s again story. Ask the group to share how this music conjures up religion within the presence of ache and worry.

Further Questions

Ice Breaker

What sorts of conditions frightened you whenever you have been younger?
As a toddler, what was the very first thing you probably did whenever you have been scared?
What was a childhood worry you had you could chuckle about now?
How does Jesus’s presence carry true peace?

John 6:16-18

What are some issues folks flip to for consolation once they hit a storm?
What are the risks of not counting on the Lord once we face a problem?
How does this scene depict the non secular struggles we regularly face in life?
The place do you see storms brewing for Christians at this time?
Since life with out Jesus is harmful, why achieve this many individuals, even believers, nonetheless attempt to go it alone?

John 6:19-20

How does His presence finally calm your spirit, particularly in powerful instances?
How have you ever skilled Jesus’s nearness in fears and storms?
Why is human energy merely inadequate to deal with our conditions?
What are methods folks attempt to overcome their fears (OR acquire peace) and the way effectively do they work?
How have you ever skilled the reality that Jesus’s presence brings peace?

John 6:21

How can we encourage each other to show to the Lord in disaster moments, with out it sounding like trite recommendation?
When have you ever skilled Jesus’s presence in an particularly significant method?
How can we expertise the presence of Jesus in our storms?
What does His presence promise us?
How does the popularity of Jesus’s presence change every part?