1.  If you had just one sentence to explain why you go to church, what would you say?

2.  Read 1 Corinthians 13: This is Paul’s famous chapter on love, and it is the most common wedding text  in the world. However, this chapter is part of Paul’s teaching on using your gifts to build up the  church. Why do you think Paul put this teaching on love here in his letter to the Corinthian church?

3.  Look at the different ways in which love is described in verses 4‐7. How would these attitudes apply  to our behaviour in church?

4.  Read 1 Corinthians 14:1‐12 and 26‐33. What is it about prophecy that makes it better than speaking  in tongues in church?

5.  How do you think this relates to love in chapter 13? 

6.  What guidelines are given as to who should speak in the gathering, and how?

7.  Read Hebrews 10:19‐25. If we have access to God through Jesus, and not through the priesthood,  then why is it that we gather as a church?

8.  Taking this all together, how would you summarise the point of gathering as a church?

9.  What might be the symptoms of a consumer or spectator attitude to church?

10.  What might be the fruits of a servant attitude to church?

11.  Do you think it might be possible to ‘love’ your church without actually ‘loving’ your church? How?

12.  What is one way you can grow in loving someone else and building someone else up in love today?