Matthew 5:13-20
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In describing the path before them, Jesus offers metaphors of salt and light to inspire us, but the least we can do is not be total jerks.
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As Jesus continues preaching the sermon on the mount, modern readers need to remember the wider context of our greater calling.
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When Jesus compares his followers to salt, it offers a complex note to the modern understanding of nutrition, health, life, how to be.
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Getting at what Jesus is speaking to requires we remember the Beatitudes. And placing that above our own logic.
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In the passage right after the Beatitudes, Jesus describes his followers as being like salt. And a light, too.
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Before we can talk about being “the salt of the earth” we must remember the Beatitudes and our poverty in spirit.