How do you share your faith at work without hiding it or forcing it? Brittany Bilowus works in a cubicle at Erie Insurance. Before that she worked the front office of a dental practice. Same person at both desks. She joins Derek Sanford and Danielle Hartland to show what it looks like to bring Jesus into a workplace that sets its own terms. 

Derek opens with the history. The church has always had two ways to lose its witness: blend in like a chameleon, or wall itself off in a fortress. He walks through the Church of the East in China, American fundamentalism after the Scopes trial, and Abraham Kuyper, who said there isn’t a square inch of human life that Christ doesn’t claim. Then John 17, where Jesus sends his people into the world, and Jeremiah 29, where God tells exiles in Babylon to settle in, seek the good of the city, and pray for it. 

Then Brittany. She prays in her car on the way to work. She stopped her day, with her office manager’s permission, to pray with a coworker who was hurting, and she wrote that coworker’s name on the floor of Grace Harborcreek before the flooring went down. Four years after Brittany left that job, the woman lost her husband and told Brittany she had given her life to Christ. Brittany also talks about losing her hearing, being mad at God, and the coworkers who came back to ask how she was getting through it. 

This week’s experiment: Every workday this week, before you walk in, ask God, “Who is today for?” Write down the name that comes to mind. Before Friday, do one small thing for one of those people: send a text, ask a question, or listen five minutes longer than you normally would. If you have five names on a list by Friday, you did it. 

Show notes, resources and the full transcript: https://dereksanford.com/sharing-faith-at-work/ 

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