Pastor Ron Milne

Jesus said, Matthew 5:13 (ESV)- 13 " You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. Salt gets its value by being different from where it is added and by preserving and giving flavor. In the ancient world, it was produced as a combination of dried minerals that included sodium chloride; the sodium chloride could be leached out by water so that the remaining compound had "lost its saltiness." It was then thrown on roads, and even today sometimes on rooftops, where it would harden the surface.

To accomplish its purpose, salt must maintain its distinctiveness, and it must be deployed. If we as Christ's disciples do not maintain our distinctiveness, we will not preserve our society from corruption, and we will not make people thirsty for the living water of knowing the good news of Jesus Christ. We also have to "go to get out of this saltshaker." YOU are the salt of the earth. In Jesus we love, connect, grow Pastor Ron