{"id":4772,"date":"2009-11-22T00:44:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2009-11-22T00:44:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:44:16","slug":"bearing-a-right-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/11\/22\/bearing-a-right-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing A Right Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BE THE SALT OF THE EARTH<\/p>\n<p>Jesus said that we are the light of the world. He also said we are the salt of the earth (see Matthew 5:13-14).<\/p>\n<p>There is also a place for us to be salt. In ancient times, salt was used to preserve meat. The meat was kept viable by the salt. So when Jesus said we are the salt of the earth, He was essentially saying, &#8220;Christian, you are here to keep things from going completely wicked. You are here to be a godly influence for Me.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Salt was also used to stimulate thirst. If you are being a &#8220;salty&#8221;  Christian, so to speak, you will, by your lifestyle, stimulate a thirst for God in others. They may laugh at you and make fun of you at times, but they will watch you.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest biography of Jesus is written in the words and actions of His people. They are His living biography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BE THE SALT OF THE EARTH Jesus said that we are the light of the world. He also said we are the salt of the earth (see Matthew 5:13-14). There is also a place for us to be salt. In ancient times, salt was used to preserve meat. The meat was kept viable by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}