Maybe there is no saltiness because we have stopped following Jesus' mission. When Jesus left the earth, he gave a command. "Go and make disciples." Most of the time, people read this a "make converts."
Yes, getting people to say "yes" to Jesus is important. So is the birth and delivery of physical children. But ask any parent, birth is just the beginning. There is feeding, diapers, cleaning up messes, little league and driver's ed.
The point of making disciples is not just getting them into the Kingdom. It's getting them Kingdom, preparing them to function on their own, and enabling them to make disciples on their own. And we will really only know if the job is done riht when the "grand-children" have "great grand-children."
If this is Jesus' mission, then TV and huge stadium events will not cut it. Children cannot be mass produced. Neither can disciples.
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