Extraordinary Leader Kit

Extraordinary Bible Study Kit contains a Bible Study Book and one DVD with a promotional video and six 20-minute teaching sessions led by author Darrin Patrick. Kit also includes social-media content for church promotion.Most Christians struggle with the Old Testament. It often reads like a collection of bizarre, supernatural stories about people in a completely different culture and place in time (which is actually pretty accurate). But throughout the Old Testament is woven the clear story of God redeeming His world through ordinary people. This study takes a closer look at a few such people—men and women chosen by God to accomplish His will. They had highs and lows, successes and failures. Adam was a king who lost his crown. Esther was a peasant who got her crown. And in between, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, and Job wrestled with relationships, passion, security, and spiritual warfare. As you’ll see throughout this study, God had a specific plan to do extraordinary things through them, just as He wants to do through you. Extraordinary reveals that God meets us where we are in extraordinary ways and uses us to accomplish His mission. Kit Includes: Bible Study Book 1 DVD Features:  Teaching videos featuring Darrin Patrick Easy-to-lead group time organized in Start, Watch, and Respond segments Biblically rooted and gospel-centered Individual study opportunities for ongoing spiritual growth Six-session Bible Study Book with group and personal components Promotional content, including video Social-media assets for the group leaderBenefits: Learn how God works through human flaws, uncertainties, and circumstances to fulfill our gospel-driven purpose. Explore the reality of our ordinariness compared to God’s extraordinariness. Give your group members examples of how to identify and respond to God’s call on their lives. Expose individuals to the life-application principles revealed through the lives of biblical figures. Help group members better understand their relationship with God and the world. Help group members identify barriers in their service for God and ways the gospel helps them overcome these barriers. Show group members how to cope with suffering and find courage through dependence on God. Confront the world’s desire to make ourselves and our own happiness the central aim instead of the ways and will of our extraordinary God. Push through cynicism, doubt, and boredom to discover purpose and meaning through obedience to and interaction with God. Put aside the smaller stories of our world to embrace the fullness of the gospel that invites us into God’s mission.Author: Darrin Patrick is the lead pastor of The Journey, a church in Saint Louis, and the vice president of Acts 29, a global church-planting network. He also serves as the chaplain for the Saint Louis Cardinals. Darrin is the author of The Dude’s Guide to Manhood and Church Planter, a coauthor of Replant and For the City, and a contributor to ESV Gospel Transformation Bible and Don't Call It a Comeback. In November 2015 he and his wife, Amie, released their first book, titled The Dude’s Guide to Marriage.