EXTRA! Concepts for Adults – Character Counts – Session 3

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

Date: August 10, 2025

Humility

The Level: Contemplate the wants of others earlier than your personal.

Get Into the Examine

Share the next after discussing the opening query.

At Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, pleasure generally comes earlier than a fall—very actually. Current years have seen a rise in guests’ ignoring warning indicators to seize excessive pictures of themselves close to lava to publish on social media. They dangle cameras over ledges, cross boundaries with selfie sticks, and stroll close to craters at night time with simply their telephone lights. Generally they fall into volcanic craters.

A customer from Boston stepped off the path close to Kilauea Crater late one night time to take a look at the lava, regardless of posted warning indicators. He fell thirty toes into brush, which narrowly saved him from falling 100 toes right into a volcanic crater. The vacationer escaped with solely facial accidents. The hubris of ignoring warning indicators is an actual hazard, in keeping with Beat of Hawaii, a journey information web site.

“The warnings are in every single place,” Beat of Hawaii said. “What’s modified is the mindset: too many guests imagine the principles don’t apply to them. They assume they’ll watch out, that nothing will go improper, and that getting a barely higher picture is definitely worth the danger.”

Shut calls at Kilauea abound for individuals who ignore boundaries to pursue self-promotional pictures. A toddler practically fell 400 toes when mother and father misplaced observe of the kid too close to the barrier. In 2018, twenty-three folks had been injured when a tour boat went too shut and was hit by a lava explosion. As with lively volcanos, turning from pleasure within the religious realm can reduce harm and enhance life.

https://beatofhawaii.com/hawaii-visitor-warnings-dont-work-thats-why-he-fell-into-crater-zone/

Get Into the Examine (Possibility from Grownup Chief Information)

Upfront, play a video clip displaying somebody who simply retains wanting extra. Then ask Query #1.

Examine the Bible

As you talk about Query 2, share the next.

Love laid a basis for humility in Kerr County, Texas, when Baptist volunteers launched a ministry to households who misplaced kids within the Texas Hill Nation flooding July 4. A workforce from Texans on Mission is packaging Bibles and handmade blankets with private gadgets of youngsters who died within the flooding. The workforce then offers the packages to the youngsters’s grieving households.

“Our prayer can be that God would give them consolation and assurance, and they might really feel the love and the masking of Jesus as we do that for them,” mentioned Jeannie Stover, a Texans on Mission volunteer from Taylor’s Valley Baptist Church in Temple, Texas. “It comes from the underside of our hearts.”

The ministry started when volunteer Lacy Daves related with search and rescue groups and realized private gadgets had been being recovered of youngsters who succumbed to the flood. Volunteers from different church buildings added the concepts of blankets and Bibles, every of which is signed by Texans on Mission volunteers. The gadgets are put collectively in baskets, prayed over, and despatched to the youngsters’s mother and father.

Stover pointed to Romans 15:13 because the workforce’s prayer for his or her basket ministry: “Now could the God of hope fill you with all pleasure and peace as you imagine so that you could be overflow with hope by the facility of the Holy Spirit.” The love displayed on this ministry each humbles those that obtain it and displays the standard character of those that exhibit it.

Texans on Mission offers grieving mother and father baskets of blessing | Baptist Press

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

Further Questions

Icebreaker

When did you final give some type of care to an animal?
What’s a family activity that’s so huge or cumbersome you’ll be able to’t do it by your self?
When have you ever been reminded that pleasure comes earlier than a fall?
What do you attempt to by no means run wanting and why?
Rising up, what was an exercise that allowed you to specific your independence?

Philippians 2:1-2

How do believers’ expressions of affection produce pleasure in others?
Why is Christian love inseparable from an angle of humility?
How does disunity in a church detract from the gospel?
What are a few of the methods love is related with humility?

Philippians 2:3-4

Why is contemplating others greater than ourselves essential for humble service?
What are a few of the ways in which egocentric ambition undercuts love?
When do you discover it most troublesome to place others forward of your self?
How will we navigate the stress of placing others first however not getting run over ourselves?

Philippians 2:5-11

How did Jesus’ dying display that meekness and humility should not indicators of weak spot?
What side of Christ’s instance stands out to you?
How may Jesus’ angle towards the Father encourage you towards an angle of humility on this coming week?
What do you discover most outstanding about Jesus’s humility?
How can we comply with the instance of Jesus in displaying humility?