Rebel Life Part 2 Salt & Light

The Rebel Life Pt 2

"Salt & Light"

Small Group Notes

09-16-09

LIFE-GROUP LEADER INSTRUCTIONS

1. Take time to read the passages of study and pray through them. Work through them in your own life and consider yourself first in all of the questions below.

2.Think through ways that you can help the group understand that it is possible to live the as Salt & Light, but NOT without Christ's help.

3. Think of practical ways to show our students that we must be Salt first and then Light, but without Christ both of these are Impossible

Passages of Study

- Matthew 5:13-16

Questions

1.How can someone live as the Salt of the earth? (Daily praying through and applying the Beatitudes to our lives)

2.How can someone live as the Light of the world? (Daily praying througn and applying the Beatitudes to our lives and praying Christ helps us to live them out)

3.How as christians can we put our Light under a basket?(Denying that we are christians)

4.Why do you think Jesus put it in the order that he did when he said, you must be “Salt” and the you must be “Light”?(First we must be salt in our lifestyles then we must be light as we live so that we dont become Hypocrites or Pharisees)

5. Why are people going to give God glory by seeing our works?(Because in that they will see something real when we are giving our all to our God)

6.What are some Practical ways to live as the Light of the world?

7.What makes us the Light of the world?(Christ because he is the light, us being like Christ that makes us the light John 8:12)

8.How do we live as formal Christian?(Knowing enough about Christ to keep us from the world, but not enough to make Christ have any value in our lives)

Application

1.In what immediately practical ways can we live these commands out in our schools, families, jobs, etc?

2.How can we avoid being tripped up by the enemy while trying to live these things out?

3.How can we avoid being our own worst enemy while trying to live these things out?

4.How do we show that Christ is the reason for our joy?

Other Scriptures to Refer to

John 8:12, 1 Peter 3:15, John 9:5, Phil. 2:15