Seed. Salt. Light.
These are very powerful metaphors that the Church has used, for centuries, to describe itself. All these metaphors come from the Gospels. (The Church as the Body of Christ is Pauline.)
Unfortunately for the church, it has forgotten that all three metaphors require self-giving, require emptying, require death...
A seed dies... Salt dissolves... Light burns out.
The Church needs to remember its Crucified and Risen Lord. There is no Resurrection without the Crucifixion.
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