The Great Pursuit
What is the greatest thing in the world? What is the noblest goal for anyone to go after? The greatest goal is love! Nothing else matters. The greatest gifts you may have or desire to have are the other relationships that mean nothing without love. Love brings about the greatest transformation. Love, we were created for it.
In this 7-week Life Group series, we will discover what real love is, the kind of love that comes straight from the Father’s heart. You were made for the one thing that really matters: Love.
Getting Started in Your Life Group: In this 7-week series, you’ll be lead with a discussion video, equipping verses to read together, and discussion questions. Each group should be 90+ minutes and about 30 minutes for hanging out afterward.

Before Your Group
Create the right atmosphere by being hospitable. Let’s roll out the red carpet for those coming to our Life Group. Whether that’s meeting them at the door, getting their drinks, or even giving a tour of your home—be sure to help them feel comfortable and taken care of. That mean providing a clean environment too. It sounds very practical, but it speaks volume.

During Your Group
Allow everyone to participate in discussion. Be sure that everyone has the opportunity to speak. Be honest, open, and transparent. Remember to be you, and understand that God has equipped you to leave this group!
Close with prayer. Take time during your Life Group to pray for one another, allowing others to lead in prayer.

After Group
Set time aside for hang out. Whether it’s before or after, be intentional to leave room for people to get to know each other.
Respect others time. It can be easy to get off track and lose track of time, but be sensitive to others responsibilities by closing the group at the time that you set.
Thank everyone for coming. Be sure to thank everyone for coming, and when you do so, set the next time for your next Life Group.
Life Group Discussion Video
Week 1: What is the Greatest Thing in the World?
What is the greatest thing in the world? What is the noblest goal for anyone to go after? The greatest goal is love! Nothing else matters. The greatest gifts you may have or desire to have are the other relationships that mean nothing without love. Love brings about the greatest transformation. Love, we were created for it.
At the end of all things,
Life Group Discussion Video
Week 3: Love is Kind & Generous
Love is actively kind. Have you ever noticed how much of the life of Jesus was spent doing kind things? Someone said, “The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.” Why is it we are not kinder than we are? Oh, how the world needs kindness and how easily it can be done. How suddenly it can happen. How kindness is remembered. If there is any kindness that I can do for someone, I must do it now. Love is generous, not envious.
Life Group Discussion Video
Week 4: Love is Humble
Here is the secret to being attractive to God—humility. What does humility look like when it shows up in your home, workplace, school? What happens to the person who cultivates humility? Humility puts a seal on your lips and forgets the good you have done. After you have been patient, kind, and generous, after love has done its beautiful work, go back into the shade and say nothing about it.
Life Group Discussion Video
Week 5: Love is Courageous & Unselfish
Love cannot be rude. Love is someone who does things gently. The ungentle person, the inconsiderate, and the unsympathetic nature cannot do anything else. This courtesy comes out of a life of unselfishness that does not demand its own way. This is love relating to people. Jesus calls us to give up ourselves and to not seek things for ourselves. There is no happiness in having or getting anything, but only in giving.
Life Group Discussion Video
Week 6: Love is Good-Tempered & Pure
Love is not rude. Love is not bad-tempered. A bad temper is one of the most destructive elements of human nature. You can have the most moral of people, but put this stain of being easily offended, easily provoked, and it’s the ruin of them. This bad temper is evil, but it is looked at as just a small thing. Yet it breaks up communities, families, devastates homes, destroys relationships, and ruins children. Bad temper reveals something deeper going on. Love, its purity is seen in how it handles being wronged.
Life Group Discussion Video
Week 7: Love in Action
Love leads to action. Character grows in the stream of the world’s life. That is where we must learn to love. Love without action wouldn’t seem like love. There is no loving heart without loving deeds.