Hi Leah Randall

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I love it, Ellen! Followers need a reminder that to be salt, it calls for us to live out our holiness in Christ as a people set apart, but interacting with and loving people who are still "worldly", while we let them see our love for one another. We need to lay down a lot more of our own flesh and find the unity of that love among one another before Christ in us (the hope of glory) will impact the culture in a substantial way.  In his 2006 book Revolution, George Barna revealed statistics show the "local church" has little to NO influence on culture. If eating or not eating a chicken sandwich is how Christians think they can will a difference for the Kingdom, then this is probably the last gasp of the institutions of Western Christendom. The true Bride will rise and shine in the midst of the mayhem and take the stance of the follower...the unity of those have taken up the cross with a willingness to "die". Brava! Thanks for this piece of encouragement to the "followers".