The Salt of the Earth

“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Matthew 4:19b). As a child, I always loved this story of Jesus calling Peter and his brother Andrew to serve His ministry as disciples. In those years, it was not the message that I found delightful, but the image of two men with fishing-poles casting, hooking, and reeling-in all sorts of humans. I crafted this seemingly obvious metaphor as my Sunday School teacher explained the importance of this commission to spread the gospel. Over the years,...