We have an election this week. Just thought you would like to know.

In Minnesota, we have a couple of highly controversial amendments on the ballot.

1. Voter ID

It is the call for everyone casting a ballot to have a valid ID so we can assure valid elections.

2. The definition of marriage

If it passes, it shall put into the state constitution the statement that marriage is between one man and one woman.

These two issues are hot and it’s been a LOOOONNNNGGGG year. I can’t wait for Wednesday.

As I listened to a very good presentation by a local pastor on reasons for the marriage amendment, I was struck by something he said.

As Christians, we are called to be “salt” in our world. I like that. It’s biblical. It’s nice to have a biblical statement made by a pastor.

The more I have pondered that statement, the more I realize this is REALLY the challenge we should have as a church. We really truly should be salt in this world.

We should be SALT in the sense of upholding the sanctity of marriage in the way we define it currently. We should NOT be as tolerant of divorce in so many cases as we are currently. If marriage is truly a sacrament in our eyes, why are we so easily satisfied with divorce on grounds like “irreconcilable differences.” And I don’t mean like some Kardashian disaster. I mean in the church. The world will always have Kardashian disasters, but why tolerate it so easily in the church? Where is the SALT of living in covenant?

We should be SALT in the sense of upholding the sanctity of life. All of it. When people are born into this world, they need to be cared for all the way through life. So, as the Church, we create salt by creating healthy families. We create safe environments to learn and grow in faith. We teach them the Word of God and how to hear God and worship him. (Which means if we are truly “pro life” we will have our kids with us in church on Sunday and not on some football field somewhere. Don’t get me preaching!)

We should be SALT in our world by being peacemakers, which may mean from time to time we say, “ENOUGH” to war and the creation of more war toys so we can keep creating war so we can keep creating more war toys.

What if the Church was truly SALT in this world? What if the Church so upheld the sanctity of marriage and life by living it out, we just might change some minds regardless of the laws that are on the books?

What if the Church had men who loved their wives and stayed away from porn and other degrading symbols that dehumanized women?

What if the Church had women who loved and respected their husbands and weren’t so caught up in Fifty Shades of Grey?

What if the Church would be SALT far beyond a vote on a ballot? What if the Church was SALT so that it didn’t have to yell at the government to do a better job?

Just… what if?

Go vote. But on Wednesday, live as SALT.