Life Group Questions

1. Who is your best friend? How would you describe
   your friendship?
   

2. How has Jesus loved his disciples well? How has he loved us?
   

3. How do we start a friendship with Jesus? What do we gain through our friendship with him?
   

4. Is Jesus’ friendship conditional (vv 14 & 16)? Why or why not?
   

5. What would it look like to “lay our life down for a friend”?
   

6. How does Christ’s teaching on friendship compare to our understanding of it today?
   

7. How will you grow closer in your friendship with Jesus?
   

8. Do you have a friend in need? What will you say or do to show them the love of Christ this week?
   

¹² “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵ No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, so that you will love one another.” —John 15:12-17 ESV