“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt.” And a great many people think, “Let your speech be salt.” They really sting you with, you know, little sarcastic remarks. But it means “always, with grace, seasoned with salt.” In other words, a child of God should have a conversation that deters evil, not promotes it. Should withhold it, you see. And I think it also has in it the idea, don’t be boring as a Christian. Oh, the Lord forgive us for being boring as Christians. We ought to be excited about all this. “That ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
Get ready to fight the good fight against legalism in Galatians. When this letter was written, it defended the gospel of Christ from people who wanted to reduce it to rules. Not surprising, Galatians has provided the backbone for several great spiritual revivals around the world. Freedom, we learn, is a serious fight. Allow grace to revolutionize your own life through these seven lessons from Dr. J. Vernon McGee.