Covenant Group Questions (1/22-1/28)

During our current sermon series focused on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, we will publish weekly a set of small group questions for your Covenant to make use of should you desire to use them.  Here are the questions for this week:

1. Read Matthew 5:13-16.  
   What does this passage suggest about being involved in society?  Should we be or not?
   
2. If you had to describe your output as an electrical bulb what would it be?  A searchlight?  A 100 Watt bulb?  A night lite?  What would it take for you to increase your wattage?
3. In what ways are you distinctive from your non-Christian friends?  How does being distinctive work with keeping friendships?
   
4. Give some examples of saltiness?  How do you personally relate to these descriptions?  Do you need to increase or decrease your own saltiness?  If increase, how can you become more salty?
5. In what ways are you arresting the moral decay in your world (salt)?  In what ways are you challenging the moral decay in your world (light)?
   
6. How are Christians to penetrate society?  In what ways are they to not become enmeshed?  How do you see the boundaries between the two?