4. Mt. 5: 13-16

Mt. 5: 13-16: Like salt and light, our faith is most operative when it is part of the everyday texture of our lives. The disciples are to be salt and light not only for the revival of Judaism but of the whole world. If we refuse to be the salt and light of the earth our faith can easily become vulgarized into harmless chocolate images of Christ and religious scenes painted on dinner plates – the harmless artifacts of a faith with all the backbone of a seedless grape.