CE Week 9: Salt + Light

Salt has several properties and benefits that make Jesus' metaphor particularly relevant to his followers.

Salt seasons and flavors food, just as Christians should enhance the people and community around them.

Salt is a preservative, just as Christians and the church should resiste corruption and decay, preserving a godly influence on the culture.

Salt has healing properties, just as Christ's followers must help bring healing to people who are hurting physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Salt creates thirst, just as Christians should create spiritual thirst, giving people a desire to know more about God and influencing many to follow Christ.

In Jesus' time, people used small clay lamps that burned olive oil drawn up by a wick. As Christians, we should be like these simple lamps, providing light in the spiritually dark conditions of the world around us.