Salt and Light: Embracing Your Gospel Identity!
Sermon on the Mount- 9 TITLE: Salt and Light: Embracing Your Gospel Identity! TEXT: Matthew 5:13-16 TONE: Encouragement TARGET: Believers TASK: Encourage believers to embrace their gospel identity with boldness and faithfulness. To be the salt and light to a world in moral and spiritual decay. TEACH: This week I spent some time contemplating the moral decline of America over the last 20 years. From a biblical perspective I would like to offer insights into the shifts in societal values and behaviors through the lens of Biblical Worldview. Here are some keys areas where moral decline can be observed. (1) Sexual Morality : Over the past two decades, there has been a marked shift in sexual norms, with increasing acceptance of casual sex, pornography, and lifestyles that deviate from traditional biblical views of marriage and sexuality. The Bible teaches sexual purity and reserves sexual relations for the confines of marriage ...