She then whirled around and walked away, her clackety-clack shoes echoing against the tile floor.
What offended her was the book with an obviously Christian title in my hand on the way out to lunch. Shocked as much by her bold intrusion into my reading habits as I was by her pronouncement, it brought to reality a decision that I needed to make: Would I live the life of working safely, tucking my beliefs away? Or would I be God’s man, comfortable in the new skin he had put me in?
Considering what was at stake, it wasn’t an easy decision. As a newly hired manager, I had fought through the thicket of at least two dozen applicants for this job. I was entrusted with a big responsibility, a budget and a supervisory position. Plus I had a family that was counting on my paycheck.
What else would I have to hide?
What would it hurt to hide that little book? But to do so, I would have to hide a thousand other things.
Read the rest of this post over at High Calling Blogs.
Have you ever made a “dangerous choice” at work ? What happened?
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This is something I have pondered before. I once worked at a popular department store and would sometimes take my Bible into work and read it at lunch in the break room. No one ever told me anything, and other people read their own books sometimes. But, I wanted to, in a way, share my beliefs without being to in-your-face to my co-workers. In any situation like this, I think you have to take into account the situation of work place you are in and your surroundings. Maybe if reading a book is too risky you try another approach, but reagrdless, as Christians we are required to share the Gospel and that can be in tons of ways.
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