Worth Your Salt

Speaker: Pastor Raleigh Sims


Scripture Focus: Mark 9:38–50


Service Time: 18th Sunday After Pentecost


Service Summary: In biblical times, salt was
treasured almost as much as gold. Among its many uses was
preserving food and other perishables. In today’s Gospel, Jesus
calls us salt, by which He reveals how much God values us.
Sometimes people outside the Church also see our worth and offer
their support. It is nothing new! Moses valued two men who
received the Spirit even though they were missing from gathering
with the seventy elders. Jesus valued a man healing in His name,
though he was not one of the Twelve. We are worth our salt, our
relationship to Christ, so much that a person receiving us
receives Christ. And within the Church, our saltiness supports,
prays for, cheers up, confesses, and forgives our fellow members.
We are worth so much that God does not want anything to cause us
to stumble. “Have salt in yourselves,” He says, “and be at peace
with one another.”