Being salt.
Salt preserves
But salt also flavors
We don’t get to choose just one aspect of our purpose.
I am here to preserve, yes.
But fighting by standing in the streets with signs, shouting and being angry is not being the flavoring of Christ. Fighting by going to school boards and harassing the leaders doesn’t flavor as Christ. Fighting by telling people that they are going to hell and scaring them is not the flavor of Christ.
The same goes for the other aspect of salt. If I am being the flavor of Christ by being sweet to everyone, at the expense of the truth, then I am flavoring without preserving. If I am a push over and let everyone walk all over me, I am flavoring without preserving.
Our mission is to be salt.
That means we go into the world and show people love and then, as we build a report and a relationship with them, we can share the truth of the gospel with love.
This is what Ephesians 4:15-16 is speaking about. “Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”
We have have our purpose and our work to do as salt. Preserve the world and hold back the evil. And share the flavor of Christ by being His representative and sharing His good news with the world. Actively preserving and actively flavoring.
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