As influencers Christians want to infuse grace and truth and life into the lives of others in their spheres of influence, where God has providentially situated them for that purpose. Their influence is spread not by pedantic posturing or virtue signaling but by exhibiting integrity and the courage of faith that knows, trusts, and serves Jesus Christ. 

You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. (Matt. 5:13, 14)

We live in a day when school boards can be encouraged to vet teacher candidates for their Christian faith like they would require a criminal background check lest those candidates bring menace into the school.

The reasoning goes that schools want to maintain an environment for noble ideological indoctrination and that inclusion of a Christian worldview runs counter to that effort. We wouldn’t want to give our children the idea that gender is determined at conception and displayed at birth as some sort of self-evident design by some deity and time-honored designation by scientific observation.

Such school boards are right to be concerned. Christians are definitely cultural influencers, as they have been since the days of the Roman Empire. Respect for all persons as image-bearers of God, love for all people regardless of station, and recognition of God’s design for the well-being of society all had monumental impact on culture.

The Lord Jesus urged His disciples to be salt and light. As such they would be pillars of truth and beacons of light in a world shrouded in the darkness of sin and given over to depravity, dissonance, and dystopian dehumanization.

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