The Real Salt and Light Argument

“Rightly understood, this is the true ‘salt and light’ argument. Before we can win the children of this world, we have to stop losing our children to that world. And as we teach them their identity in Christ in such a way that they embrace that identity and the terms of the covenant that define it, they will provide the kind of contrast with our postmodern culture’s lost children that will make evangelism truly potent. Before we can invite nonbelievers to participate in our believing culture, we have to have one” (The Case for Classical and Christian Education, pp. 71-71).