The Big Idea: God's love is infinite and therefore ever expanding. When we receive and experience it, we are called to give it away. That is our purpose.

Text: Matthew 5:13-16

Notes:

• During the pandemic we have a scapegoat for our anxieties and restlessness, namely: the virus, lockdowns and our altered way of life.
• After the pandemic is over, we will still have existential anxieties, but no longer the scapegoats.
• We must therefore prepare ourselves for after the pandemic by being secure in our purpose of life and it's meaning.
• Jesus says that we are to be salt and light.
• Salt is used a food preserver; we are to preserve the humankind from decay.
• Sin is a rejection of God (the moral law giver) so now everything is permissible, which leads to the detriment of our world.
• The solution is reconciliation with God, through forgiveness found at the cross.
• Having been reconciled to God, we are to add goodness (love, grace) to the world.
• We cannot do this because we are "good" but by showing people how someone broken can have hope.
• Being secure in our purpose can help us during the pandemic and after, as we search for meaning in all these things.