#GOFAMINTDailyDevotion Tue. 1/8/2017

6/8/2017 LESSON 10

BLESSINGS FOR BEING THE SALT OF THE EARTH

Quarter’s Theme: CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE

Unit 3: Our Impacts (Lessons 10-12)

(STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY MONTH)

Suggested Hymns: G.H.B. 9, 36

Devotional Reading: LK. 14:28-35

Topic For Adults

PRESERVING CHRISTIAN VALUES

Topic For Youths

ENRICHING YOUR SOCIETY

Topic For Intermediates

ADD FLAVOUR TO YOUR WORLD

Scripture Lesson

MATT. 5:13; ROM. 12:1-2; ACTS 8:4-8; 2 COR. 2:14-17

MEMORY VERSE

“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. Matt. 5:13 (NKJV)

DAILY DEVOTIONAL READING

Tue. 1/8/2017

Christians In Antioch

Acts 11:26

Early Christians in Antioch really deserve commendation for being able to live differently as salt with the people noting that these ones are special and positively different. The word “Christian” was an appellation given to them because they lived a different lifestyle in the gentile city of Antioch where ungodliness would have been the order of the day. They didn’t say “at least we are in a new terrain”, “when you are in Rome, you do as the Romans”. God doesn’t want us to be like chameleon in nature, trying to get adapted to every situation, but we must know who we are and stand for what we know as salt of the earth. What shows us as Christians is our possession of the characters of Christ.

POINT OF EMPHASIS: What shows us as Christians is our possession of the characters of Christ.

PRAYER POINT: Help me Lord to be salt, living Christ-like life everywhere I find myself.