Absolutely Small - The Birthplace of Breakthrough, Part 2
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you wish your neighborhood was safer? Or maybe that your kid's teacher wasn’t so anti-Christian. Or that you could reach the people you work with for Christ? What if God wanted you to be the one to lead the change? Where would you start? Chip explains how you can be the catalyst for positive, God-honoring change, in your neighborhood, school, or community.
How Jesus “reached” a city:
A lesson for His disciples -John 4
- Where did the Breakthrough begin?
- Whom did Jesus choose to use?
- How did she “make room” for Breakthrough?
- What “courageous step” did she take?
- What did Jesus want His disciples to learn... about Himself? About breakthroughs?
Timeless axiom: Unlikely, supernatural breakthroughs are not dependent on aFUTURE work of God, but a PRESENT work of “one”. -John 4:34-39
How His followers “reached” the world:
A Lesson for Us -Book of Acts
- Where did breakthrough begin?
- Whom did Jesus choose to use?
- How did they “make room” for breakthrough?
- What “courageous steps” did they take?
- What was/is the result?
- What does Jesus want us to learn . . . about Himself? About ourselves? About breakthroughs?
Timeless axiom: Breakthroughs are fueled by COMPASSION and birthed in biblical COMMUNITY.
Action steps:
- PRAY fervently and desperately.
- EXTEND God’s compassion to someone or a group in need this week.
- JOIN or START a small group to pursue breakthrough “in” you and then “through” you.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:14.5 | If you could see a supernatural breakthrough in one area of your life, what would it be? |
| 0:21.6 | Unfortunately, when people start to think about that, you begin to ponder some really big thing |
| 0:27.1 | that would have to happen. |
| 0:28.5 | And what I want you to know, almost always, just the opposite is true. |
| 0:33.3 | Today, we're going to learn how that really works. |
| 0:35.8 | Stay with me. |
| 0:38.5 | In our last program, we heard how Jesus reached an entire Samaritan city. |
| 0:43.0 | Remember the story? |
| 0:44.0 | A despised woman with a complicated past meets Jesus at a well. |
| 0:48.6 | She recognizes him as the Messiah. |
| 0:51.3 | Then she runs back to town, risking rejection to tell others about him. And the |
| 0:56.1 | whole city comes out to meet Jesus. Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram shows us what |
| 1:01.6 | Jesus wanted his disciples to learn from that encounter. It's all part of our series, Experience |
| 1:07.1 | Breakthrough. If you're waiting for perfect conditions to launch what God's calling you to do, |
| 1:12.7 | this message might change everything. Here's Chip Ingram. Now I'm going to show you something |
| 1:18.3 | about how Jesus very intentionally reached a city, and I'm going to suggest that he didn't just reach a city, |
| 1:26.4 | but he's wanting to teach his disciples about how to reach cities, |
| 1:30.1 | and then we're going to learn from the disciples how to reach a city. |
| 1:33.4 | Where did the breakthrough begin? |
| 1:35.5 | Answer with Jesus. |
| 1:37.8 | Jesus cared. |
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