Salt of the Earth
http://www.jrdkirk.com/2013/08/26/salt-earth/ August 26, 2013 “If you salt the water, you won’t taste the salt. But if you don’t, you’ll know something’s not quite right.” Sage advice about pasta water from Mr. Richard, one of my friendly cooking gurus. It’s the same with the bread we baked up today. If we’d salted it, it wouldn’t have been salty bread, it just would have tasted more like bread. Instead, it was just sort of flat. A floury delivery unit for the dip. Salt, rightly done, doesn’t make you taste the salt, it makes you taste more of what you’ve added it to. What if Jesus was after something like this? “You are the salt of the earth.” Too often those of us who live on the Evangelical side of the fence envision the message of Jesus as world-denying; or, worse yet, world-escaping. What’s our job then? To call people out of the world, to get them to leave it behind! What if, instead, our job as followers of Jesus is to make the world...