Earlier this week I watched a person who, in my opinion is like the diseased plant, spreading the infection across many others. It was a very sad sight. Not that I or anyone else is perfect and whole, for wholeness is not the absence of disease but a healthy section and an unhealthy part which is in the process of being discarded. It is a creative combination of affliction and health. I had not thought of it this way before, but you could say that church is the spiritual bathroom where we get rid of all that can harm us if we hang on to it.
Church is certainly a place for cleansing and refreshing and renewal in what is healthy.
Church is the place in which we make sure we keep our saltiness.