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Salt Covenant Community prays to live out the following before the nations:
First, we pray to live as a community of purity and holiness, like salt. “...Season all your grain offerings with salt... Add salt to all your offerings.” (Leviticus 2:11-16) Just as salt was used to purify and sanctify the offerings and grain given to God, we desire to live in purity and holiness in the world and pray for such a life.
Second, we pray to live as a community that brings a balanced and appropriate flavor, like salt. “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt...” (Colossians 4:6) “You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.” (Matthew 5:13) We pray to live as indispensable salt and light in the world, full of virtue and benefit, embodying the unique flavor of a complete Christian.
Third, we pray to live as a covenant community, unchanging and incorruptible, like salt. “It is an everlasting covenant of salt before the LORD for both you and your offspring.” (Numbers 18:19) “Do you not know that the LORD, the God of Israel, has given the kingship of Israel to David and his descendants forever by a covenant of salt?” (2 Chronicles 13:5) Salt prevents decay and preserves freshness. In this sense, the Salt Covenant represents an eternal, uncorrupted, and unchanging promise.
We pray that this Salt Covenant of God would define our lives, and as a gathered community, we seek to obey and fulfill the calling and mission given to us among the nations. We long to build up worshipers and proclaim the Salt Covenant among all peoples, nations, and rulers, continuing to build up the Missional Community until the day the Lord returns. "Maranatha~!"