Matthew 5:13: "You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it useful again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless.”
Mark 9:49-50: 49"For everyone will be salted with fire. 50 Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Luke 14:34-35: 34 "Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? 35 Flavorless salt is good neither for the soil nor for fertilizer. It is thrown away. Anyone who is willing to hear should listen and understand!"
Colossians 4:6: Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
It’s not just enough to look like the salt of the earth. We can look like the salt of the earth, or we can pretend to be “salty”. We can appear to speak with grace seasoned with salt, but if we have lost our saltiness we are good for nothing. No matter how good we may appear, we sometimes lose the fundamentals that make the us alive (and not zombies), then we are only sand and will be thrown out.
It is easy to look like a Christian. We may go to Church every Sunday. We may talk about our church and how much it means to us. We may do all this and still be only sand (zombies). Salt, like Christianity is no good unless it is used. Christianity, like salt, preserves what is good and prevents its decay. Would you consider using salt only on Sunday?
How can we use Salt to develop relationships?
Salt makes people thirsty –
our goal is to create a thirst for conversation so that we can learn about others needs
Acts 17:6
When they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some believers before the city authorities, shouting, "These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also,…
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
The Replacements
A great movie. If you haven't seen it, see it. At one point, the coach Gene Hackman says to Keanu Reeves ..."you've got miles and miles of heart" or something like that. That got me to thinking...what is this heart that I always remember people talking about? "You've got to put your heart into it". "You guys are playing like you got no heart".
What’s a person to do? Like Luther (AKA, “Brother Martin”), start each day with a heart attack – uh, make that, you allow God’s truth to adjust your heart. His version of it was “God forgive me for the best deeds I’m about to commit.” There is no help we have to offer God or his purposes. As we, in a sense, throw in the towel freshly each day, when it comes to our ability to attain the standards of God, we realize our best deeds are the “filthy rags” Isaiah referred to in Isaiah 64:6.
Once we understand that we cannot add to what God is doing – nothing but pull the “yes” trigger – yes to being available – then we flow with the change God is ushering in. When he does something great, we are the most surprised.
William Wallace's father:
Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.
What’s a person to do? Like Luther (AKA, “Brother Martin”), start each day with a heart attack – uh, make that, you allow God’s truth to adjust your heart. His version of it was “God forgive me for the best deeds I’m about to commit.” There is no help we have to offer God or his purposes. As we, in a sense, throw in the towel freshly each day, when it comes to our ability to attain the standards of God, we realize our best deeds are the “filthy rags” Isaiah referred to in Isaiah 64:6.
Once we understand that we cannot add to what God is doing – nothing but pull the “yes” trigger – yes to being available – then we flow with the change God is ushering in. When he does something great, we are the most surprised.
William Wallace's father:
Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.
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