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Extraordinary Life – Teaching Series

Extraordinary Life – Teaching Series

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Extraordinary Life, a series on Elijah, will help your students see their own story echoed in one of the most human stories in the Bible. Through Elijah’s story and all of his ups and downs, students are going to learn what an authentic life of faith and passion looks like.

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Through the life of Elijah, students will discover what it looks like to have faith in every season of life. Through seasons of hopelessness, challenge, loneliness and fear, to finding purpose, God has extraordinary plans for us. Elijah’s story reminds us that God provides hope, victory, belonging, and purpose. No matter what we face, we’re never too ordinary for God’s extraordinary plans.

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  • What's Included

  • "EXTRAORDINARY LIFE"  IS PART OF YM360’S MIDWEEK LINE OF RESOURCES AND IS IDEAL FOR:

    • Any large group setting
    • Mid-week youth service
    • "Master teacher” format 

    "EXTRAORDINARY LIFE" COVERS THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES AND PASSAGES:

    • Session 1 - But First, Some Cake (1 Kings 17:8-16) | This session introduces Elijah through his encounter with a hopeless widow and her son, showing us how God gives hope in hopeless times. Students will discover how hope starts small, requires trust, and transforms. Even in our lowest moments, God is faithful to provide hope.
    • Session 2 – Have You Checked The Bathroom? (1 Kings 18:17-39) | Even when Elijah faced 450 prophets alone, he trusted that God would be victorious. In the same way, when we feel outmatched by the brokenness in our world or in our lives, we can trust that God isn’t. He is greater than whatever we face, and He will prevail.  
    • Session 3 – When God Made Pancakes (1 Kings 19:3-18) | After Elijah’s victory on Mount Carmel failed to turn Israel’s heart back to God, he was devastated. Feeling lost, alone, and running for his life, he ran into the desert, ready to give up. But God met him there with rest, care, renewed purpose, and community. Because when we feel lost and alone, God gives us a home.
    • Session 4 – Definitely (Not) an Alien Abduction (2 Kings 2:9-12) | This is the final moment of Elijah’s life, and while the story may seem extraordinary at first, it is filled with ordinary human moments. It is by finding these moments that we can let the story truly speak to us where we are and take us where we need to go. It reminds us that no one is too insignificant for God’s story.

  • EVERY MIDWEEK ESSENTIAL FROM YM360 COMES WITH:

    • Detailed Large Group Outlines - Every Midweek comes with detailed large group outlines. Teach them "as is" or adapt them to suit your specific ministry context.
    • Discussion Questions - Questions are designed to foster conversations, help students think critically about the teaching, and wrestle with how these Biblical truths impact their complicated and ever-changing lives. You can use these discussion questions to facilitate small groups after your large group teaching or even create handouts for students to work through the message as you go.
    • Graphics - A title slide, background slide, header, social media graphic, and all the editable asset files for you to use the logo how you see fit are included to help you promote your midweek. Use the background slide as a backdrop for your song lyrics, Scripture passages, teaching points, and any illustrations you choose to display.
    • 100% downloadable and adaptable

    EVERY MIDWEEK PREMIUM FROM YM360 COMES WITH:

    • Detailed Large Group Outlines - Every Midweek Series comes with detailed, editable large group teaching outlines. Teach them "as is" or adapt them to suit your specific ministry context.
    • Discussion Questions - These questions are designed to foster conversations, help students think critically about the teaching, and wrestle with how these Biblical truths impact their complicated and ever-changing lives. You can use these discussion questions to facilitate small groups after your large group teaching or even create handouts for students to work through the message as you go.
    • Graphics - An entire folder with a style guide, social media graphics to help you promote and recap each session, presentation slides to help create a visually appealing environment for song lyrics, Scripture passages, or teaching points, posters for you to print and display, headers for you to include in e-mails or other documents, and all the editable asset files for you to use the logo how you see fit.
    • Videos - A thematic message bumper video and countdown video to help you tie in the entire midweek gathering with the visual look of the midweek series.
    • Parent Resources - Includes a series overview page, a monthly parent e-mail script, and four session e-mail recap scripts for you as you seek to partner with the parents in your youth ministry.
    • Volunteer Resources - Volunteer resources include a series overview page and volunteer e-mail and text scripts to help you communicate with your volunteers for each session.
    • Games - Unlock access to choose the games you want from our growing library of fun and interactive games to create engagement and connection. (4 game credits per series to use however you choose)
    • 100% downloadable and adaptable

Samples

Overview and Sample Sermon

Overview and Sample Sermon

Download a full overview of Extraordinary Life and sample the first sermon in the series.

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