It was - obviously - hyperbole.

As a successful parent, I agree with the importance of their role in education. Problem is that is not so in our current culture. And one reason is the parents themselves never hear the “Good News” in our language either.

The rottenness in our culture can only be successfully countered with the Good News. Referring to it in an ancient british (Gospel) effectively camouflages it.

In our language that word has come to merely mean “true” or “honest”. See the problem with hiding our Faith in a foreign language?