The Salt Principles

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,…