Parents Guide to The Trip

Tonight at the Trip, we talk about salt. We took a look at Matthew 5:13 where Jesus said that we are the salt of the earth. We talked about 3 characteristics of salt.

1. It adds flavor to things. I passed out some saltless potato chips to the youth and let them eat them. It showed them how things without salt is bland. As Christians, we are supposed to add flavor to the world. According to John 10:10, Christians should be having the most fun.

2. Salt preserves things. We need to be saving our friends from hell. We can and are supposed to be the earth's preservers.

3. Salt has variety. There are over 14,000 different kinds of salt. God loves variety in salt and us. God has given all of us different abilities and likes. We can rejoice in our differences and use this to be a complete body of Christ. It takes all kinds of Christians to reach all kinds of lost people.

4. You have to chose to be salty. God cannot use you if you choose to make yourself unavailable. At the end of the night, I gave the youth a packet of salt to take home with them. I told them to put the packet somewhere they would be reminded daily to be salt to the world.

Questions to ask your Kids

1. How did the chips taste? (Some kids actually liked them. This is great news for healthy parents.)

2. What does it mean for a Christian to add flavor?

3. How can you be a preservative?

4. Name some different varieties of salt? What variety are you?

5. Where did you put your salt packet?