One evening, Dwight Moody noticed a man leaning against a lamppost and asked him if he was a Christian. The man snorted back, “Mind your own business!” Moody responded, “I’m sorry if I’ve offended you, but this is my business.”
Is sharing your faith your business?
Wilson, J. L. (2009). Fresh Start Devotionals. Fresno, CA: Willow City Press.
Sharing your faith at work is like sharing the weekend’s blockbuster movie. You just have to let someone know about it. Tell them about the graphics or the highlights or the main character. We are the movie that plays out each and every day in the workplace and whether we like it or not people are watching our movie. I happen to manage a very large golf course and most people don’t come to the club to talk about their faith. They want to golf or play tennis and escape from the world for a moment in a little thing called recreation. I also have 150 co-workers who look to me for so many different reasons. I never try to force anyone to watch my movie or hand out the free DVD. Instead I look for an opportunity during everyday discussions to share that story or movie scene with someone. Recently we were talking about football, a topic that comes up just about every week in every office around the workplace. I shared that I was the newest asst. coach for my son’s team which was very exciting for me. Someone asked for what team. I explained for “Upward”, it is a flag football league at our church. On another occasion a co-worker came in and was talking about the possibility of going through a divorce and I said, “that is tough one to try and go alone,” here is a name and number of someone from our church who works with people who are contemplating divorce and they actually have a high success rate of seeing couples stay together.”
These types of situations play out more and more each day, there is not a week that goes by where the conversation of faith comes up. I wake up each morning and as part of my prayer life I ask God to clear the path and open my heart for an opportunity to share my faith, then I ask for the wisdom and discernment to know the right time and when the right time to change the channel off the topic of faith. I have found that if my ‘movie’ is a good movie people will want to watch, they will be interested in the main parts of my life and they will ask more questions of me which then will open the door to share my faith.
Who is watching your ‘movie’?
Have you missed an opportunity recently to share your faith?
What will your ‘movie’ look like today?
“I thank my God always, remembering you on the occasions of my seasons of prayer, hearing constantly of your love and faith, your faith which you have in the Lord Jesus and the divine and self-sacrificial love which you show towards all the saints, remembering you in my prayer-times, praying that the contribution of your faith, which faith you share in common with other believers, may [through the resultant love which you have for all the saints] become effective in the sphere of a full and perfect experiential knowledge of every good thing in us with a view to [the glory of] Christ.”
Wuest, K. S. (1997). The New Testament : An expanded translation (Phm 4–6). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
About the author: Bill A. Gaspard is a Certified Christian Life Coach and Biblical Counselor, dedicated to helping God RECOVER His children through relapse prevention coaching. He is the founder of Christian Recovery Coaching- http://christianrecoverycoaching.com/
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