Jesus said to his disciples: "'You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.'" Matthew 5:13 (NRSV)
I believe that this refers to what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called cheap grace - this salt that has lost its taste.
It refers to those who receive the Good News and accept the blessing but do not do anything in response.
They live their lives as everyone else does and don't think twice about it.
But Bonhoeffer asserted that more was necessary and that this came at a cost - costly grace.
And that cost entailed a renunciation of worldly values in favor of the values of the Kingdom of God as set out in the Beatitudes.
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used By permission. All rights reserved.]
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