The Salt and Light of Saints to the world.

One of the most remarkable features of the modern Church is the lukewarm attitude to The Great Commission. In many circles, the Great Commission is rarely mentioned. In its place, various types of congregations and ministries have erected their versions of The Golden Calf where their energies are directed to.

Many host communities of congregations and ministries are yet to feel the impact of the regular congregating of saints in them which is a very sad reminder of how far this generation has drifted from the essence of representing Christ and the Kingdom before the unsaved.

Whether as individual saints, families or ministries and congregations, we are planted within specific communities to function as Salt and Light to them. Where our host communities are not receiving the redemptive impact of the Salt and Light we are, something terrible has gone wrong and needs to be repented of and corrected without delay.

Matthew 5:13-16

 13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

 14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

 15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

 16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Salt is useless of itself! Rather, its usefulness is relative to application to substances which need to be 'salted'. Let us use the applications of salt in the natural to understand how Jesus wants to impact our host environments with His nature and redemptive mission: