Uncommon Community: Part 4, Love
September 28, 2025

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Message Review

The fourth indicator of a healthy and transformational smaller community is Love. Jesus loved us with an extravagant (without restraint) love. His extravagant love for us requires an extravagant love from us. Not because people deserve it, but because it’s how Jesus first loved you and me. Uncommon community is defined by this extravagant love.

Main Point: Uncommon community is defined by extravagant love.

Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Discussion Questions

  • What were your initial thoughts or takeaways from the sermon, and why?

  • What is love? What does love practically look like?

  • Share a time someone showed you that type of love. How did that impact your relationship with them

  • Is there a certain type of person who is hard for you to love? Why? How do you naturally want to treat those people?

  • Read John 13:34-35 and John 15:12-13 together:

    • What do you initially notice from what Jesus said in these two passages?

    • What big idea(s) was Jesus communicating in these two passages?

    • Jesus presented his standard of love in John 13:34. What is Jesus’ standard of love for His followers?

    • Why did Jesus say what He did in John 15:13?What are some ways Jesus has loved us?

    • What’s the implication of what Jesus said in John 13:35?

  • What are some differences between how we typically see, experience, and give love, and the extravagant love Jesus requires of us?

  • Read 1 Corinthians 13:1-13:

    • What words or phrases stick out to you in this passage?

    • What main points(s) was the Apostle Paul trying to communicate?

    • In verses 4-7, Paul practically described what Jesus’ extravagant love for us now requires of us.  Which one of Paul’s examples is hardest for you? Why is that?

    • In vs 13, why did Paul say, “the greatest of these is love?”

  • Ronnie challenged us to adopt the standard to love one another JUST AS Jesus first loved us. What does Jesus’ extravagant love for you require of you…

    • With the people you say you love?

    • With a person who is hard for you to love right now?

    • With a person who needs to experience Jesus’ love right now?

    • With our T-Life Group?

  • Ronnie said, uncommon community is defined by extravagant love. How can our T-Life Group love another just as Jesus first loved us, better?

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