"Got Salt?"
If faith plays even a small part in your life, you owe it to yourself to read Doug Giles' most recent column Got Salt? Here's a sample:
The conjured images of a helpless baby Jesus in a manger or the gaggingly effete long haired image seen in churches around the world is an injustice to the all powerful ruler of the universe.
Likewise the pages of the Bible would surprise, astound, captivate and even titillate the uninitiated reader. Matthew 5 isn't a bad starting point.
"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men."Giles is never boring and always refreshingly irreligious...be sure to read the entire piece.
Jesus Christ, the Gospel of Matthew 5:13.
In Jesus' first tape series, the Sermon on the Mount, He told His followers that He expected them to be salt, and that if they weren't, then they were good for nothing. Yeee-Ouch! I know that doesn't fit with postmodernism's bearded lady Jesus, but these are the recorded original words of the rebel from Galilee. Yep... Jesus, in his wonderful word-picture way, essentially said to his apprentices, you had better rock and rock hard or you're fired!
And you thought that Trump was brutal.
Anything but meek, Christ condemned weak stances with respect to courage and truth and condoned only the bold. The Analogy Master said we're to fret, bite, preserve and spice things up, just like salt.
The prophets, apostles and postbiblical stalwarts of positive biblical change were salty dogs. They were raw and fiery. They were not genteel placaters of the people. You were not going to forget what the biblical heavyweights said or go to sleep while they said it.
For instance... if you worshipped idols in Jeremiah's day, the salt of his message was going to hurt your hubris. Jeremiah didn't acquiesce to the PC stuff of his time. He let loose on the specific junk that his homeland was embracing, junk which also happened to be the undoing of their national greatness.
The conjured images of a helpless baby Jesus in a manger or the gaggingly effete long haired image seen in churches around the world is an injustice to the all powerful ruler of the universe.
Likewise the pages of the Bible would surprise, astound, captivate and even titillate the uninitiated reader. Matthew 5 isn't a bad starting point.
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