The work environment presents its own unique challenges for spiritual conversations.

Depending on where you work, your organization might be supportive of faith conversations, or might be antagonistic towards them.

Often, restrictions are against “proselytism”—but if we’re having thoughtful conversations as we listen to our colleagues and gauge whatever we share to their level of openness, it’s unlikely that our actions will be interpreted as proselytism.

Even so, sometimes work authorities may discourage these conversations. That doesn’t mean we’re being “persecuted”; it just means we need to adapt and find the right opportunity to listen to and love the people around us in our specific context. Maybe you can get a conference room for a lunchtime spiritual discussion group; maybe you can’t. Either way, there will still be opportunity for you to bring a listening, welcoming presence to your colleagues, customers, or clients.

Sources: Daniel 6:5, 21-22 (NIV)

Alpha USA Don Everts and Doug Schaupp, I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008). 

Friendship Evangelism: The 5 Thresholds toward Faith, InterVarsity Evangelism, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.

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