1. Owning Your Influence Matthew 5:13-16
Whether or not we want to own up to it, we are all responsible for our influence. Jesus expects us to change the world for good by being salt and light.
Matthew 5:13-16

2. You Are Salt You are valuable.
Salt was an essential ingredient in sacrifice (Leviticus 12:13).
Salt preserves the good (2 Chronicles 13:5).
Salt purifies (Ezekiel 16:4; 2 Kings 2:21-22; Matthew 5:8).
Salt seasons. It is used to make food (and words) more palatable! (Colossians 4:6)

3. You Are Salt We must own responsibility for our influence:
Our words (2 Timothy 2:14).
Our teaching (Malachi 2:8-9).
Our behavior (1 Peter 2:12).

4. You Are Light
Light doesn’t participate in darkness; it exposes it! (Ephesians 5:3-8; 11-13)
We must own the influence of our every behavior. (Romans 14:13, 21)
How can the world be changed if the salt loses its flavor and the light becomes darkness?