Ye Are The Salt of The Earth . . .

LJA Students ha

ven a bowl of Epson salt in which they stirred food coloring. They then coated their jar with the thick glue “Mod Podge.” Then they rolled their jar in the colorful salt and placed a battery operated votive inside. Wa-lah! A clever example demonstrating that we are the salt of the earth. We can be colorful, useful and stand out in this sin-filled world.

Let every one of us not lose our flavor, but give our world a distinct zest of Jesus Christ.

Susan Zimmermann

ve been learning the meaning of “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” Matthew 5:13.

The goal for our students is to live the kind of lives which enhance and give meaning to life on this earth. Jesus used salt to describe how Christians are needed to bring balance and hope to an otherwise dying world.

For students to visualize this analogy, they made luminaries using jars. Each student was gi