You, church, are salt and you are light

Salt has an essential character: it is salty. Which seems silly to say, but Jesus says something that I still find quite strange: What if salt were no longer . . . salty? What then?

Salt has a flavor. It adds its flavor to our favorite foods, and when it is absent, we consider the food bland . . . tasteless.

Salt has a function. It works as a preservative. Salt absorbs water, which pulls the moisture from meats and such, thus making them far less likely to rot and decay. If salt was used on a cut of meat, you could travel with it for quite some time, depending on its nourishment. If salt was not . . . well, you know it takes mere days—or even mere hours—before the meat is utterly inedible and spoiled.

And you, church, are the salt of the world.

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