Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Colossians chapter 4, verse 6.

Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Salty Answers was written and read by Elisa Morgan.

1 Peter chapter 3 verses 15 to 16.

But in your hearts Rivier Christ is Lord.

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you, to give the reason

for the hope that you have.

But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience so that those who speak

maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.

Salty answers.

Bert placed his debit card atop the restaurant bill.

The waiter scooped it up and then paused to ask,

Wait, who is this guy who says, I am the way and the truth and the life?

That's so conceited.

Bert realized the waiter was reacting to the words printed on the card by his Christian financial

company.

Jesus' words from John 14, verse 6.

Amused at the waiter's response,

Bert explained the identity of this guy and his sacrificial offering to bring us to God.

When we encounter people who know nothing about our faith,

we might respond with ridicule or even judgment.

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