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HAVE SALT IN YOURSELVES

Mark 9:41-50

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““For everyone will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt. Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.””
‭‭Mark‬ ‭9:49-50‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
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SALT in Jesus’ time was used for: preservative, an antiseptic, disinfectant, a fire catalyst, fertiliser, to add flavour to food, etc.
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Salt as a fire catalyst was used to keep the fire burning. The challenge is how can we keep the fire burning without, we, being burnt out and lost our saltiness! And how can we remain salty to function as antiseptic or adding flavour to food? To promote peaace and to transform the society?
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We can’t give what we don’t have. And we can’t give more than what we have! We can only give what we have! 
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Was this how John Wesley felt before his heart warming experience on 24 May 1738? Tasteless? Powerless? No fire?
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May you do your work in us Lord! Season us with your fire, with your salt and restore our saltiness! 
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Happy Aldersgate Day to all Methodists!


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“I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist ... But I am afraid, lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. This undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.” (John Wesley, 1786)
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~plt240518
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#pltwrites #mark9 #havesalt #staysalty #aldersgateday#peoplewhocalledmethodists

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