{"id":943,"date":"2026-02-15T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/?p=943"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:41:34","slug":"how-can-you-be-the-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/how-can-you-be-the-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"How can YOU be the Salt?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou are the salt of the earth.\u201d \u2013 Jesus (Matthew 5:13a)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses salt to teach his followers and the crowds about their role to play in the world around them. But why does Jesus use salt as the example? <strong><em>What does it mean to \u201cBe the Salt\u201d?<br><br><\/em><\/strong>Let\u2019s take a deep dive with Executive Director and Pastor Jay Height into the origins of salt and how we can \u201cBe the Salt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Message 1   Salt\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R_yXyLqOU-w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>So, how can <\/strong><strong><em>YOU <\/em><\/strong><strong>be the Salt?<br><\/strong>Your time, treasures, and talents can be used by God to be the salt to our community. God has uniquely gifted you to serve the world around you in a way no one else can. Be the Salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou are the salt of the earth.\u201d \u2013 Jesus (Matthew 5:13a) In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus uses salt to teach his followers and the crowds about their role to play in the world around them. But why does Jesus use salt as the example? What does it mean to \u201cBe the Salt\u201d? Let\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns-by-jay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}