· What is your perspective of marriage, based on what you see around you?
· As goes marriage, so goes the culture. How do you respond to this statement? What does this mean for you?
· Where have you seen a marriage where the partners are very different? What do you observe about their relationship?
· How does love help you see the good and the bad in your friends and accept them whole-heartedly anyway?
· What promises have you made to those you love? What do you do to keep those promises?
· How does God in His love sustain you? How do you reflect God's love to your friend by sustaining them in hard times? When have you felt sustained by them?
· Can you think of a time when you have felt unsafe in a relationship that you thought was safe? How did you come to feel unsafe?
· What relationships do you have that are governed by love? In contrast what relationships are you in that are not governed by love? How are they different?
· What keeps us from believing that Christ is for us? That He delights in us? How would we see ourselves differently if we believed this?
· When have you experienced God pursuing you?
· Are there things you need to leave in order to be fully engaged in your relationship with your partner? your friends?
· What do you need to leave in order to love Jesus whole-heartedly?
· How do your human relationships reflect Christ's love for you?
· How do you rely on Christ's power and presence to love those closest to you well? What gets in the way of this?
· What is Christ inviting you to today?