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Salt and Light
You voted and we’ve preached the “parables” you voted for. Like a couple of your other suggestions, this week’s passage might not actually be parables but metaphor. In Matthew 5:13-16, as part of the amazing Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that believers are “the salt of the earth” and “the light of the world.” These categorical pronouncements mark our identity as Christians and call us to live out what has been declared to be true about us. That is to say, now that we know who we are, we can set our minds to the mission. Or, to say it another way, with our being established, we can focus on the doing. Whether it is a parable or not, the images of “salt” and “light” are powerful ones for us to consider. So much changes if we understand what Jesus is saying. It's going to be good to get to be together with you to unpack it all on Sunday.
Series: Simple Stories: How the parables of Jesus change everything
Todd Dugard
Message: 8 – Salt and Light
Harvest Bible Chapel
Text: Matthew 5:13-16
August 18, 2024
Don’t let your abilities take you where your character can’t keep you.
If I’m to be a Christian, I’ll know…
…who I am in Christ (v 13a, 14a)
John 8:12
Your life as a Christian should make non-believers question their disbelief in God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
…what my relationship to the world is to be (v 13b, 14b, 15)
Identity amnesia always leads to identity replacement. When you forget your identity in Christ, you search for identity in people, places and things.
Paul David Tripp
The glory of the gospel is that when the Church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
…how I am to make an impact for the Kingdom of God (v 16a)
Christian saltiness is Christian character as depicted in the Beatitudes, committed Christian discipleship exemplified in both deed and word.
John Stott
…and why God gets all the credit (v 16b)
The gospel says you are more sinful and flawed than you ever dared believe, but more accepted and loved than you ever dared hope.
Timothy Keller
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By Harvest Bible ChapelYou voted and we’ve preached the “parables” you voted for. Like a couple of your other suggestions, this week’s passage might not actually be parables but metaphor. In Matthew 5:13-16, as part of the amazing Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says that believers are “the salt of the earth” and “the light of the world.” These categorical pronouncements mark our identity as Christians and call us to live out what has been declared to be true about us. That is to say, now that we know who we are, we can set our minds to the mission. Or, to say it another way, with our being established, we can focus on the doing. Whether it is a parable or not, the images of “salt” and “light” are powerful ones for us to consider. So much changes if we understand what Jesus is saying. It's going to be good to get to be together with you to unpack it all on Sunday.
Series: Simple Stories: How the parables of Jesus change everything
Todd Dugard
Message: 8 – Salt and Light
Harvest Bible Chapel
Text: Matthew 5:13-16
August 18, 2024
Don’t let your abilities take you where your character can’t keep you.
If I’m to be a Christian, I’ll know…
…who I am in Christ (v 13a, 14a)
John 8:12
Your life as a Christian should make non-believers question their disbelief in God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
…what my relationship to the world is to be (v 13b, 14b, 15)
Identity amnesia always leads to identity replacement. When you forget your identity in Christ, you search for identity in people, places and things.
Paul David Tripp
The glory of the gospel is that when the Church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
…how I am to make an impact for the Kingdom of God (v 16a)
Christian saltiness is Christian character as depicted in the Beatitudes, committed Christian discipleship exemplified in both deed and word.
John Stott
…and why God gets all the credit (v 16b)
The gospel says you are more sinful and flawed than you ever dared believe, but more accepted and loved than you ever dared hope.
Timothy Keller