This week we talk about another of the words that could have been used for love but wasn't.  Eros is the sort of love that pretends to be for someone else while actually being for yourself.  This week, take a critical look at your loves and consider which ones are really just love for yourself in disguise.  Think about your relationships, your commitments, your hobbies, your work.  

This week as you're together, ask for some volunteers to share about their experience of loving sacrificially from the last week.  Talk about what your group did (or is planning to do) to love sacrificially as a group.  

The challenge this week is to love someone who you aren't familiar with, to get out of your comfort zone.  Here are some ideas:  Find someone you don't know from Grace and get to know them with the intent of loving them.  Connect with someone around you from a different culture, background, country, or religion.  As a group talk about what you can do together to intentionally get out of your comfort zone and love others.  Are there people in your community that you can reach out to?  People in your church?  People at work?  Are there changes you can make collectively to better love those who aren't like you?

This week in your groups the challenge is for everyone to come up with one way that they can love someone else with actions that model Jesus' sacrifice and for your group to come up with one way that you can collectively show that same sort of love.

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Nick shared some very practical thoughts this week about the sinfulness of our hearts and the impact that sinfulness has on our relationships.  This week we encourage you to make use of one of the tools that Nick provided in your group.  Attached here is a Heart Inventory for you to use.  Take some time to work through it and perhaps discuss it in your group.

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