Monday, June 30, 2008

Where is the Salt?


"God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christian tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat from going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: where is the salt?"
- John Stott, The Message of the Sermon On The Mount, p.65


Here is another great book on the Sermon on the Mount: The Sermon on the Mount, The Character of a Disciple, by Dan Doriani. Dr. Doriani used to teach New Testament at Covenant Seminary. He is a GREAT Bible teacher.

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