Taking Jesus’ words in Matthew 5:13, “you are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?”, the sermon traces God’s covenant relationship with his people from the reading of Deuteronomy 6, love the Lord your God with all your heart, and asks what it looks like for a covenant people to keep their saltiness rather than lose it.
Moving through several headings on the nature of death as separation from God and his righteousness, God’s ongoing provision for his people, and the danger of a fading, diluted faith, the message calls the church back to a distinctly Christian life that genuinely preserves and flavors the world around it, rather than blending in and becoming spiritually tasteless.