Love Does Bible Study Guide: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
By Bob Goff
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Love isn't a feeling. It's an activity. It's something you do. And participating in the act of love is the secret to understanding God's love--the secret to a life well lived.
Building on the foundation of the New York Times bestseller, Love Does, the Love Does video study (DVD/digital video sold separately) is a case study in love done--a love that's practical, functional, active. Not a "love" that has all the right answers. Not a "love" with ulterior motives. Not a "love" that's all talk or paralyzed by doubt. But a radically alive love that's an intentional participation in God's world.
How is that kind of love done?
The how is what this study is about. Real growth happens when you learn how to tap into the empowering, energizing love of God. Using it fills you. Risking it secures you. Giving it satisfies you.
Each of the five sessions in the Love Does video study explores a different aspect of God's active love through Bob Goff's teachings and stories:
- I'm With You - we've been given the invitation to love. Taking it seriously is where life meets faith.
- Free to Fail - exploring the nature of failure, how it works, and what God does with it.
- Audacious Love - understanding why receiving love is essential to giving love.
- Be Not Afraid - chasing out the anxieties that keep us from acting and living the life that Jesus has called us to.
- Follow Me - delving into how to bring our passions and plans together and bind them to God's plan.
This study guide provides teaching notes, discussion questions, Bible study, between-session activities and a practical application called "Putting Love into Action," which gives you the opportunity to put the principles you have learned into real-life practice.
It's time to step off the ledge and fall into God's immeasurable love.
Designed for use with the Love Does Video Study (9781400206292), sold separately.
Bob Goff
Bob Goff is the author of the New York Times bestselling Love Does; Everybody, Always; Dream Big; and Undistracted, as well as the bestselling Love Does for Kids. He's a lover of balloons, cake pops, and helping people pursue their big dreams. Bob's greatest ambitions in life are to love others, do stuff, and most importantly, to hold hands with his wife, Sweet Maria, and spend time with their amazing family. For more, check out BobGoff.com and LoveDoes.org.
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Love Does Bible Study Guide - Bob Goff
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ePub Edition January 2014: ISBN 978-1-4002-0628-5
CONTENTS
Introduction
How to Use This Guide
SESSION 1
I’m with You
SESSION 2
Free to Fail
SESSION 3
Audacious Love
SESSION 4
Be Not Afraid
SESSION 5
Follow Me
Additional Resources for Group Leaders
INTRODUCTION
What do I do to live into the person that Jesus made me to be? . . . Do you know what the answer was for me? I did stuff!
Loves Does video
Welcome to Love Does!
All of us have seasons of life when our relationship with God is really humming — those times where our faith and life sync up in all the right ways and everything just works. We also have the other kind of season. You know the one I mean: the season where faith and life seem to butt heads. Life gets hard, faith seems stale, and we feel stuck. If you’ve ever felt like that, then don’t go anywhere — this study is for you!
You see, this is a study about God’s love . . . and the most amazing thing about that love is that it’s not just a bunch of rules or stuff we have to agree with. God’s love is different. It changes things. It brings hope where before there was only despair. It revives faith that feels lifeless. It makes a way forward where there seems to be only a dead end. It’s active. It works. It risks. God’s love . . . does.
Tapping into this love requires a different skill set than what it takes to memorize answers for a test or to follow all the traffic laws so you don’t get a ticket. This isn’t a love you can earn, buy, or win. It’s something better. Something bigger. And it just might be something you discover more about by doing stuff
too.
That’s what this study is all about.
Love Does is a five-week experiment in doing the love of God. Each session will explore a different aspect of God’s active love through the teachings and stories of Bob Goff. There will be an opening question, a short Bible study, and then a video featuring Bob. However, the real action comes after the video when you dig into each topic in a guided small group time. Here’s where the rubber meets the road and you see how God’s love gets practical as you are invited to join in it too. It’s going to be great. Really. However, if you want to get the most out of your Love Does experience, it’s best to keep a few things in mind.
First, the real growth in this study will happen during your small group time. This is where you will process the content of Bob’s message, ask questions, and learn from others as you listen to what God’s love is doing in their lives. This leads to point two. Small groups can be a deeply rewarding time of intimacy and friendship, but they can also be a disaster. Work to make your group a safe place. That means being honest about your own thoughts and feelings as well as listening carefully to everyone else’s. Third, resist the temptation to fix
a problem someone might be having or to correct someone’s theology. That’s not what this time is for. Finally, keep everything your group shares confidential. All this will foster a rewarding sense of community in your Love Does group and give God’s Spirit the