God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt?
John Stott in The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, p 65.
Wow, Steve. There's a whole sermon in those six sentences, and it really spoke to me. We Christians have gotten really good at the whole "throwing up the hands in pious horror" thing.
Thanks for your blog. Blessings to your family in the uncertainty of these days.
Posted by: Ron | 06/14/2007 at 07:54 PM
Very good reminder. We also need to remember that salt must remain salt in order to be such a preservative. The world does not need salt that looks like rotting meat in order to be effective.
Posted by: Jeff S. | 06/15/2007 at 09:43 AM