Everybody, Always by Bob Goff
Week 6: Don't Be an Extra — Being the Main Character in Your Own Story of Love
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).
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One of Bob's recurring themes is the danger of spectator Christianity — knowing the right things, applauding the right moves, but never actually stepping onto the field. These questions will ask you to look honestly at where you've been sitting in the bleachers.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.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?
2.James says that hearing the word and not doing it is like looking in a mirror and immediately forgetting what you look like. How does that image describe the danger of reading a book like this without actually changing anything?
3.Bob is relentlessly action-oriented — he doesn't just think about loving people, he calls them, shows up, gets on planes. What is the gap between your convictions about love and your actual behavior, and what lives in that gap?
a.What is one specific thing you know you should do for someone that you have been indefinitely postponing?
b.What story have you been telling yourself about why now isn't the right time?