John Stott said at the Cape Town Lausanne Conference, “The greatest hindrance to the advance of the gospel worldwide is the failure of the lives of God’s people” (Newell, Expect Great Things, 27). An anonymous author adds, “The reason some folks don’t believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn’t worth propagating.” In this context I want us to carefully reflect on King Jesus’s reminder that he redeemed us and brought us into his kingdom to be “the salt of the earth” (5:13) and