Our lives must be as a light open for all to see, set on a hill, our good works causing people to glorify our Father in heaven. We are warned also, that if the salt loses its flavor and the light is hidden, we become good for nothing and easily trampled under foot. Let us examine several reasons why the salt has become tasteless to the lost and the light has grown dim to the world. In viewing the problem, we will also see some of the solutions. In The Shaker Christian activities have consumed so much of people's lives that they have no time and little energy to make or have an impact in the world.
Salt is most useful when it has been poured out of the shaker.
There is a lack of Christian energy being expended on reaching the lost. We are using it all up at our gatherings. Jesus has commanded us to go - to bring the kingdom of God with us to a lost world. We have instead been trying to bring the world to Christian meetings. We have been seen as irrelevant because Christians have been nowhere to be seen.