so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone
Speech that is gracious and salty helps us to know how we ought to answer!?!
- seek first to understand then to be understood (gracious in that we accept and listen to know where others are coming from and are therefore able to know how we can respond appropriately).
- Salty -- relevant and faithful
It can be hard to answer the tough questions if we have watered down the truth of who Jesus is and what he said and did.