~~~I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell~~~

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Salt and Light

What is the ’#Salt and Light’ tag?

Christians are bidden to be the salt of the earth, to not hide our light beneath bushels. Our worldview shines through our sub-creations - art, fanfiction, original stories, videos, comics, podcasts, anything we can imagine and make, on any host, server, or site - whether it is explicitly Christian or not.

We believe in one God, holy and perfect in every way, who sent His Son to live a blameless sinless life, to die on the cross to assume our sins, to rise again on the third day and utterly conquer death. We believe in the Commandments and instructions He has given us, the principles by which we are to live our lives.

We believe in hope. In love. In joy. In peace. In strength in the face of adversity. In justice, and mercy, and redemption, and forgiveness.

This is not a nursery-school or Sunday-school tag, all butterflies and rainbows (although such pieces are, indeed, most welcome!) The sub-creations that this tag covers range from the fluffiest comfort, to the grittiest dystopias. Viewer caution is advised.

But what all these pieces will have in common, is that certain outlook on the world that comes with redemption through the Son. The hope. The joy. The faith. No matter how dark or difficult it gets. It is the candle that cannot, will not be hid.

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The pastor of my church was preaching out of Revelation today on Smyrna, the persecuted church, and something he said took me on this train of thought.

The believers in the Roman Empire were not persecuted because they worshipped Jesus. They were persecuted because they worshipped only Jesus. Rome was a very inclusive society; they took religious tolerance and inclusion to an extreme. They had a whole pantheon of gods and every time they went to a foreign country the troops would bring back the foreign gods of that country and add their images to the pantheon. People in Rome could pick their favorite deity and worship mostly that one, whichever suited their preferences as long as they acknowledged all of them and the emperor, who was also worshipped.

But the Christians didn’t do that. If they had merely added a statue of Jesus to the Pantheon, nobody would have bothered them. But no, they had to sweep all the other gods off the shelf and worship Jesus only. That was what offended everyone. That was what made the Romans so mad they threw Christians into prison and beat them and stoned them, tortured them, burned them alive, threw them to wild beasts.

I think that a lot of people these days in the Church have it all wrong trying to be inclusive and not offend people. Your ancestors in the faith did not die so you could add Jesus to the Pantheon.

John 14:6 I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

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