Jesus had told the believers of his earthly time that they were "the light of the world." Later he instructed them not to hide their light, but let it shine. There is also the metaphor of the city on the hill, the corporate church, the body of believers is an ensample, an example.
We hope to continue on in our brotherhood with believers and non-believers alike, though we are conditional about the non-believers, lest we ourselves are led astray.
Jesus even broke bread with the sinners, and as legalists remind us, this did not cause him to partake in sin, but he kept his righteousness all the while, and acted as that example for the others, in the simple act of just being there.
Just being there, and they look up from the doldrums of pavement haze in the city, look up to the hill, and that "city on the hill".
We affect the condition of being ambassadors for Christ to the "wayward Gentiles", and like Paul, we continue the ministry efforts, spreading the light across an otherwise sin-darkened world.
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