Emphasis Preaching Journal

Disciples influence the world as salt affects food. Salt suggests three characteristics: purity, preservation, and seasoning.

The purity of salt originates from the process of using sea water and sun to acquire salt. The Romans believed that salt was the purest of all things because it came from the purest of objects -- the sun and the sea. Christians are to be morally and ethically pure because the purity comes from the purest object -- God!