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IntroductIon The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable. Paul Tillich Welcome to the One Way Love Discussion Guide! For each session, gather as a group in a comfortable space and begin with prayer. Thank God for unconditional grace to an undeserving world. Consider as you listen, and share how God might be leading you to truly understand and experience grace and in turn be a conduit for that grace in your family, community, and relationships. Session1 roLLEr coAStEr oF GrAcE We live in a world, a culture, of two-way love. But the gospel reverses the way the world works. The first are last, the last are first, the sinners are forgiven and the pious are humbled. Read this passage together and reflect upon the radical message that Jesus brings to earth: Matthew 11:25–30. Jesus thanks God for reversing everything. When you read verse 25, do you relate more to the intelligent or the infant? Why is this good news? Then Jesus identifies Himself as the Son of God and turns from prayer to invitation. What is Jesus’s invitation? What is the light burden that He invites people to undertake? Why is this good news? The foundation of the Christian faith is grace—God’s one-way love for us. Have you always felt that this was the foundation of the faith? Have you ever been somewhere where the foundation seemed to be something different? Grace works without requiring anything on our part. Is this your understanding of grace? Does it really not require anything? A decision, a confession, repentance? Anything at all? Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. In what ways are we undeserving of grace? Ar