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1 | proselytizing at work | Bible general Archive 2 | buddboy | 110204 | ||
What view does the Bible give about proselytizing? and how does it apply on the job? | ||||||
2 | proselytizing at work | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 110205 | ||
buddboy I assume you mean sharing ones faith in hopes of having another accept that faith. Because we are to love our neighbor we should be concerned about his eternal state. John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Therefore if the person's faith isn't in Christ his eternity is lost. Sharing on the job opens a problem. We were hired to work not to share the gospel. However I see no problem with sharing the gospel on break or during lunch. That is unless the person your sharing with has asked you to stop. If your doing it in a way that others can hear and they have asked you to stop you should respect their wishes and you and the person you sharing with should move to an area that others won't have to hear you. Remember were not to make ourselves odorous to others by trying to force the gospel down their throats. EdB |
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3 | proselytizing at work | Bible general Archive 2 | Corban | 110455 | ||
But, isn't it interesting how, when we see a good movie, we tell everybody, and we don't worry about hurting somebodys feelings? Maybe they don't like sci-fi, drama, or whatever the movie is, but we tell them! Does the fact that we are more comfortable trying to convince people to go blow 20 bucks (or more) on a movie than talking about God's salvation seem to suggest that we are more concerned with the movie than people's eternal salvation? ... I do think that it is personal. We all have some type of ministry, weather that is at a pulpit, in the middle of a third owrld country, or sitting on your deck talking to a friend. We do, however, need to share to gospel with everyone we reasonably can. And if you share at work? worst case scenario...you get fired, right? So, my theory, (since this is what God teaches), is that He will provide for me anyways. Just my 2 cents. In His Service, Brian |
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4 | proselytizing at work | Bible general Archive 2 | EdB | 110469 | ||
Brian Yes you can share at work and yes it may cost you your job. But is that what God wants? Scripture says we are to do our job as unto the Lord. In other words our work will be faultless. When an employer looks at us he should see his best worker. Then when he questions our motives we can tell him were are Christians following Christ directives. Which do you think better represents Christ, being fired for witnessing or being such a good worker we are a standout? Which do you think would cause a person to want to become, a person that gets fired or a person that gives an honest days work for and honest days pay and does it with joy ? Your also right about the movie we do tell everyone about the movie we saw. However if a person says they hate murder mysteries do we tell them they are messed up and need to learn to love murder mysteries or do we tell them about an interesting plot that might interest them enough to go to the movie. Often when we share Jesus we find someone that isn't saved and hammer them over how wrong they are. What we need to be doing is living a Christian life before them in such a way that out of curiosity they will ask why are you different. Then we can tell them about Jesus. More are turned from Christ by people with good intentions that in their zeal to share Jesus forgets to remember to treat their neighbor as they would like to be treated. What converted Rome to Christianity wasn’t what Christians said it was how they lived and in the case of Rome how they died. The early church lived Christ before the eyes of pagans, the pagans saw something in the Christians that they didn’t have and wanted it. EdB |
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5 | proselytizing at work | Bible general Archive 2 | Corban | 110495 | ||
I see your point. I guess where I am coming from is not on a basis of hit-em-over-the-head, but rather, when the opportunity presents itself, don't run from it because you are afraid of being repremanded. However, I do agree with you in your statement completely, I just feel that NOT talking about Christ at all is even worse. In His Service, Brian |
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