April Week 2

Written By Compel City Community Church .

Breakout Format

  • Welcome/Greeting (1 min.)

  • Prayer: (1 min.)

  • Ice-Breaker Activity (2 min)

  • Worship:Testimony/Read a Psalm (1 min)

  • Breakout Discussion Questions

  • Closing Announcements

Breakout Discussion: “We Are The Salt of The Earth”

In our new Bible series entitled Identity, we began by learning more about Who we are in Christ Jesus. Tonight, we aim to have a deeper discussion about the application of our Identity In Christ Jesus as the salt of the earth. But before we begin, let us pray. (Heavenly Father, we thank You for all the blessings we have in Christ Jesus. Now Lord teach us so that by the revelation of Jesus we might understand how to be the salt of the earth. This we ask in Jesus name. Amen.

Breakout Passage(s):

Matthew 5:13 KJV

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.Breakout Questions:

Q1: Jesus told his disciples, “You are the salt of the earth”. While we know salt has a distinct flavor, we learned that salt is also used as a preservative. Because we are “the salt of the earth”, how can we as true followers of Jesus, bring God’s preserving nature to those we are in relationship with? (Read each verse and discuss how each one gives us insight into how we might walk in our Kingdom identity in practical way as “the salt of the earth” bringing God’s preserving nature to those around us.)

Read & Discuss A:

Psalm 25:19-21 KJV

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. [20] O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee. [21] Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Read & Discuss B:

Proverbs 16:17-19 KJV

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul. [18] Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. [19] Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Read & Discuss C:

Psalm 32:6-7 KJV

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. [7] Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Read & Discuss D:

Proverbs 13:3 ESV

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Read & Discuss E:

Psalm 41:1-2 KJV

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. [2] The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

Read & Discuss F:

Psalm 145:20-21 KJV

The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy. [21] My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord : and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

Read & Discuss G:

Hosea 12:13 KJV

And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

Read & Discuss H:

Luke 5:37-39 KJV

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. [38] But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. [39] No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

Benediction: Jude 1:24-25

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