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Theme Transition Bible Study Wrap Up God’s Love Say something like, “The word ‘love’ Have two volunteers read all of Say something like, “God’s love is used to describe so many different Romans 5:1-11 aloud to the rest of pursued us even before we knew it relationships, which makes knowing the group. Give the students about or were ready to receive it. We can Objective the true definition of love difficult. In 10 minutes to individually complete freely choose to love or not love God. Students will rediscover the definition today’s lesson we will rediscover the Love Defined assignment. When We can freely choose to receive love of God’s love as a relentless, pursuing, the definition of God’s love for us as they are finished working, have your or not receive love from God.” and unconditional love. relentless, pursuing, and uncondi- youth share their findings. Follow tional.” with these questions: Allow everybody in the group the • How is the “love” defined in these opportunity to share one way they Warm Up could demonstrate God’s love to Direct your group to the All Kinds of The Video verses different from most of the “love” the world has to offer? someone else who might not under- Love section of the Student Guide. You can introduce the video by going stand or know it yet. Close the time Allow about ten minutes for this activity. to the band’s website and learning a • Why is “hope” important in a love together by praying for one another to When everyone is finished or almost little more about the group. Show the relationship? follow through on these actions. finished, ask the students to come video as your group works through the • What is significant about the timing back together. Give each group a short Scenes exercise. When the video has of when God demonstrated His love amount of time to present their results. ended, have your group share their to us? You could list their results on a white- findings and discuss how the scenes • What is comforting about this board or paper in the form of a poll to might be related to the message of passage of Scripture? see which types of “love” appeared the song. most often. After these reports, follow- up with these questions: • Why does the word “love” get used in Transition so many ways? Say something like, “Life has its highs and lows. In some moments, • What impact does this have when we both good and bad, we may feel try to communicate genuine love to close to God or far away from Him. In someone else? this song we are reminded that God’s love ‘will surely come find us.’ Let’s take a few moments to discover what God’s Word says about His love.”