How do Christians lose their saltiness? Let me suggest two ways: First, they stay in the salt shaker. Or they stay in a salt warehouse. This is the approach of monasticism. It is the view that says believers are to cut themselves completely off from society. Second, they lose their distinctiveness. They succumb to pressures to tone down their Christianity, or they become contaminated by the impurities of the world. Salt is different from the medium into which it is placed. The Christian is a person who is different from those around him. He/she should glory in the difference.
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