13-Week Study & Discussion Guide

Everybody, Always

by Bob Goff·92 discussion questions

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Week 1 — FreeRead the Introduction of Everybody, Always by Bob Goff. Key passage: 1 Corinthians 13:4–8.

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1.Bob's books are built on the conviction that love is something you become, not just something you do. In your own words, what do you think he means by that distinction, and why does it matter?

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Bob Goff's Everybody, Always is a joyful, story-driven invitation to stop sorting people into categories of "easy to love" and "difficult to love" and to simply love them all — without distinction, without limits, and without waiting until you feel ready. Drawing on his own wild adventures (skydiving mishaps, conversations with a Ugandan witch doctor, friendships with people on death row), Goff argues that the kind of love Jesus modeled isn't reserved for the lovable. It is extravagant, reckless, and aimed especially at the people we'd rather avoid. The book's central thesis is as simple as it is demanding: become love — not just someone who occasionally performs loving acts, but someone whose whole life is shaped by an unstoppable, fearless affection for everybody, always.

This study guide is designed for small groups or personal study, moving through the book one chapter (or cluster of short chapters) at a time over thirteen weeks. Each week, read the assigned chapter(s) before your group meets or before you sit down to journal. Then work through the discussion questions — some will ask you what Goff actually said, some will ask you to look honestly at your own life, and some will invite you to think about what all of this means in light of the gospel. Don't rush. The best conversations often start with the question that makes you a little uncomfortable.

By the end of this guide, you won't just have read a book about love — you'll have been gently, repeatedly asked to live one. Expect to laugh at Bob's stories, to be convicted by his honesty, and to finish with a clearer picture of the kind of person you want to become: someone who loves everybody, always, because that is exactly what Jesus does with you.

Week 1: Introduction — Becoming Love

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Read the Introduction of Everybody, Always by Bob Goff. Key passage: 1 Corinthians 13:4–8.

Bob opens this book not with a program or a plan, but with a person — Jesus — and a posture: becoming love rather than merely doing loving things. As you read, ask yourself what the difference between those two really is.

1.Bob's books are built on the conviction that love is something you become, not just something you do. In your own words, what do you think he means by that distinction, and why does it matter?

2.From the very start, Goff is clear that loving 'everybody, always' is not a self-help formula — it's a description of how Jesus loves us. How does grounding this idea in Jesus change the stakes of the challenge?

3.Bob describes himself as someone who learned most of what he knows about love the hard way — through failure, awkwardness, and showing up imperfectly. Does that make his invitation feel more or less accessible to you? Why?

a.Is there a time in your own life when a mistake or failure actually taught you something important about loving others?

b.What does it say about God that He seems to work through our messes rather than waiting for us to get it right first?

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Week 2: Catching Air — Love Without a Safety Net

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Read the opening chapters of Everybody, Always covering Bob's skydiving story. Key passage: Matthew 14:22–33 (Peter walking on water).

1.Bob's skydiving story is funny, but the point is serious: he jumped without being fully prepared, and something got lost in the process. What do you think he's trying to say about the nature of love with that image?

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Week 3: The Witch Doctor — Loving the Difficult and the Different

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always describing Bob's relationship with the Ugandan witch doctor. Key passage: Luke 19:1–10 (Jesus and Zacchaeus).

1.Bob describes going out of his way to build a relationship with a Ugandan witch doctor — someone most Christians would avoid or argue with. What strikes you most about how he approached that relationship?

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Week 4: Afraid of the Dark — Facing Fear to Love Freely

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always on fear and how it limits our love. Key passage: 1 John 4:18 ('Perfect love drives out fear.').

1.Bob identifies fear as the main barrier to loving difficult people. What specific fears does he name or imply, and which of those resonates most honestly with your own experience?

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Week 5: The Positive Effects of Negative People — Loving the Difficult Ones

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always on loving people who push back, criticize, or make themselves hard to love. Key passage: Matthew 5:43–48 (Love your enemies).

1.Bob makes a counterintuitive argument: difficult people are not obstacles to our growth in love — they are instruments of it. What does he mean, and do you find that convincing?

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Week 6: Don't Be an Extra — Being the Main Character in Your Own Story of Love

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always on living as an active participant in love rather than a passive observer. Key passage: James 1:22–25 (Be doers of the word).

1.Bob uses the metaphor of being an 'extra' in a film — present on set but never driving the story. In what areas of your life have you been an extra when God is calling you to be the main character?

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Week 7: Tom Thumb and The Land of Enough — Contentment, Identity, and Love

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always on identity, insecurity, and how knowing who you are frees you to love others. Key passage: 1 John 3:1 ('See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God.').

1.Bob uses storytelling and humor to make a serious point: people who are secure in who they are don't need other people to be less-than in order to feel like enough. How does insecurity show up in the way you relate to others?

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Week 8: On Getting Out of the Boat — Doing What Jesus Said, Not Just What He Did

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always on obedience, risk, and taking Jesus at His word. Key passage: John 14:12 ('Whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these.').

1.Bob often describes just doing whatever the most loving thing in front of him is, without a lot of deliberation. What do you think enables that kind of responsiveness, and what gets in the way of it in your own life?

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Week 9: We're All Cannonballs — Living With Abandon and Contagious Joy

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always on living with joy, whimsy, and the contagious nature of a love-filled life. Key passage: John 10:10 ('I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.').

1.Bob describes people who live with such uninhibited love that they become like cannonballs — launching into life with contagious energy that splashes everyone around them. Who in your life looks like that, and what is it about them that makes them so compelling?

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Week 10: What Love Talks About — The Conversations We Have With God

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always on prayer, listening to God, and how love shapes our conversations with Him. Key passage: Matthew 6:9–13 (The Lord's Prayer).

1.Bob says that what you do with your love becomes your conversation with God — that a life of loving people is itself a form of prayer. How does that idea expand or challenge your understanding of prayer?

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Week 11: Finding the Right Friends and the Upside of Failure

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Read the chapters in Everybody, Always on friendship, community, and learning from failure. Key passage: Proverbs 27:17; John 15:13–15 (Jesus calls us friends).

1.Bob draws a distinction between being friendly to everybody and having deep, formative friendships with specific people. How do you hold those two things together — loving everybody while also investing deeply in a few?

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Week 12: Becoming Love — The Life That Waits on the Other Side

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Read the final chapters of Everybody, Always. Key passages: 1 Corinthians 13:12; Revelation 21:3–5.

1.Bob ends the book where he began — with a call to become love, not just to do it. After reading the whole book, how has your understanding of what 'becoming love' actually means deepened or changed?

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Week 13: Review & Reflection — Looking Back, Moving Forward

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Review your notes, journal entries, and highlights from all of Everybody, Always. Key passage: Philippians 1:6 ('He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.')

1.Looking back across the whole book, which chapter or story had the greatest impact on you — and what specifically made it land so hard?

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