The yellow school bus is as much a symbol of public education today as was the little red schoolhouse in its day. In some areas of our country, the bus is used to effect racial integration in education. However much that may be needed, our children need even more a spiritual integration.

If children learn all the secular subjects but remain uninstructed as to the way of salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, their education is unbalanced and incomplete. Their growth is certainly not as symmetrical as was that of the boy Jesus, who "grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men" (Luke 2:52). This was coordinated mental, physical, spiritual, and social growth.

Further, if our children’s total education is not integrated in the Christian sense, if all secular knowledge is in one drawer and spiritual knowledge in another, then we teach our children to live in two worlds and to become "split personalities." Then faith in the Savior and love for Him does not motivate learning and everyday living. Then we are bringing up a generation that believes that Christianity pertains only to church for one hour on Sunday morning, while the rest of the week is lived by worldly standards.