{"id":504,"date":"2011-08-04T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:42","slug":"we-are-the-salt-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are the Salt of the Earth&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt. 5:13-16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: Just How Important is Salt?<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Salt in the Fisherman&#8217;s life.<br \/>\n2. Salt in our Modern life.<br \/>\n3. The Ocean without salt.<br \/>\n4. Food becomes flat, tasteless, meat will rot for the lack of salt.<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: The Christian is Spiritual Salt.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The Christian influence salts a community.<br \/>\n2. His thoughts and ideas salt the Community.<br \/>\n3. Spiritual salt rises in conflict with moral rottenness.<br \/>\n4. Sin rots and kills, Spiritual salt makes life.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: We Have a Need of Spiritual Salt.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. In our homes.<br \/>\n2. In our community.<br \/>\n3. In our schools.<br \/>\n4. In our sports. (Clinton our ball player).<br \/>\n5. In business. (Junior Fellows).<br \/>\n6. In Political life.<br \/>\n7. In literature and Art. (The Face of Jesus).<br \/>\n8. In our daily work and play.<\/p>\n<p><strong> IV: Salt Must Make Contact to Cleanse.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Meat will rot within a few inches of salt.<br \/>\n2. Rottenness will run wild until checked by salt.<br \/>\n3. The Christian must come in contact with rottenness.<br \/>\n4. Salt refreshes, restores, brings back to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt. 5:13-16 I: Just How Important is Salt? 1. Salt in the Fisherman&#8217;s life. 2. Salt in our Modern life. 3. The Ocean without salt. 4. Food becomes flat, tasteless, meat will rot for the lack of salt. II: The Christian is Spiritual Salt. 1. The Christian influence salts a community. 2. His thoughts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}