Salt...Not the Angelina Kind..

Thanks Grace Baptist in Decatur, IL...love this picture.
Summer is the bomb diggity. Know why? Because I have the freedom to read whatever literary treasures I choose and I am not limited to nursing books with horribly graphic pictures of childbirth, gnarly infections, and the like. Don't get me wrong, I love that stuff (twisted I know), but summer is sacred. My summer list previously was made up of mostly fiction. I'd reread all of the Harry Potter books and squeeze in some Jane Austen and other classics to feel sophisticated. However, this summer I have tried to balance the fiction with non-fiction. It's a struggle, because I love the thrill of a fiction work that allows me to let my crazy imagination get a bit out of control. But, I'm learning...I'm growing up a bit.

I'm getting close to my point now, I promise. I am reading Roaring Lambs by Bob Briner. All the IWU chillens should recognize that name...think awkwardly made busts haunting the entrance to the library...that's right, he was the first inductee!

This man was the shiz nit. He makes some points that I think that I have been waiting forever to hear. Remember the verse from Matthew 5 about how we are the salt of the earth?

..."the salt Jesus has in mind is stinging, biting, cleansing, and preserving and is anything but dull, anything but tame. To be the kind of salt Christ spoke about is to be on the cutting edge, in the fray, at the forefront of the battle."

He talks about how instead of hiding in the Christian "bubble" or subculture, we need to be in the areas that are starving the most...Get into the sports, media, business, medical, art worlds etc. Don't feel worthless if you are not called to ministry in the church. Realize that the "world" is in desperate need of salt, and if we all hide in the "bubble," the meat of the world will spoil and quickly....

"Keeping Christ bottled up in the churches is keeping salt in the shakes, and He does not go where we do not take him." Let's get those shakers shakin people. Brucie