You are salt and light. Not, 'this is how you become salt and light' but 'you are salt and light'.
Repeat the above comment repeatedly until everyone get's it. It's not something to work at in order to become. It's something you are.
Perhaps that's more scary becasue we can't avoid it. It's who we see in the morning when we look in the mirror: salt and light of the world. It's who people see when they pass us on the street, sit beside us in the train, standing in the queue at the supermarket: salt and light.
This is not about requirement to fulfill. It is about being a blessing. It's not a programme to be part of but a way of being.
Take the manifesto of Jesus, and take it seriously: turn the world round the other way and place priority on people, not profits, turn the other cheek, live with love towards your enemy, love neighbour. Do any of these then you reveal your true self to the world: salt and light. Pay lip service to the manifesto, then you've just lost your saltiness and gone and turned your light out.
There are few chances to change the world. One of them is being salt and light and we're already 99% of the way there since that is who we are. But it seems to be the last 1% of believing that we are salt and light, living as salt and light, that's the most difficult.
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