Power of Salt

18 June 2007 – Power of Salt

Colossians 4: 5-6

Live wisely among those who are not believers, and make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be gracious and attractive (seasoned with salt) so that you will have the right response for everyone.

As a Christian, it is important that we should mingle among the non-believers in our world. It is unreasonable for the Christian to only get involved in God’s ministries and not fulfilling the Great Commission, i.e.:

Matthew 28:18-20

…“I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations (all peoples, in Greek is kosmos), baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

We should be familiar with this, but how many of us discovered that Jesus used the word kosmos to describe the term “all the nations”? So what is the meaning of this word? In Greek, kosmos this word gives a meaning of every areas of society and culture. In many researches of humanity, the human scientist believed that the society is being supported by seven pillars:

(1) Religion

(2) Family

(3) Business

(4) Education

(5) Government

(6) Arts

(7) Media

The final 5 of the pillars of society is generally known as the marketplace. So we need to go into the marketplace instead of always staying in the first 2 areas of life, which is the mistake that most of the Christians had done.

We have to become a living testimonial to other people, especially non-believers. As you know, action speaks louder than words! So what can we say? Act it instead of blowing out from your mouth always! It is a wide coverage of evangelism that we can penetrate to if we know how to make a difference in the society, especially marketplace!

So, let your words and acts among the unbeliever be gracious and attractive, so that they will approach the salvation in a more convincing way rather than you just inviting them to church always without seeing any difference in the life of the inviter.

“You might not be able to see the impact of your acts.

But if you act it, you will see the differences!”

Franco