THE OFFICE IS A GREAT PLACE FOR THE HARVEST

JUST THINKING:

We have been told to go into the world by our Lord and King to preach the gospel but many of us including me do not take it seriously. If someone had not preached the authentic gospel to me, I would not be a Christian today.
Mark 16: 15 -16 says, ‘’And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned’’.
There are various ways of preaching the gospel like the pew evangelism, rural evangelism, street evangelism, internet evangelism and office evangelism. Many prefer the internet evangelism because it covers a large reach of people worldwide. But one thing I have noticed is that everyone including me is a ‘’Christian’’ on the internet but not everyone lives the true life of the believer.
Also, many people prefer the pew evangelism (altar) because they want to be seen and heard that they are loaded and grounded in the scriptures and the revelations of them. While the street evangelism is something that most people do not do because they are ashamed to be seen preaching on the street. Why the deception? You prefer to preach on the ‘’altar’’ and on the internet but you are ashamed to preach on the street because of pride, ‘’what will people think and say of you’’ and maybe because you have some skeletons in your cupboards.
The Office evangelism can be the most effective form of evangelism. You spend at least seventy percent (70%) of your day at the office. You even spend more time with your colleagues than your family everyday but you have not realized that you are directly or indirectly evangelizing to them. Unconsciously, you are making them hate the Christian fate by your actions, attitude and way of life. Most of the people you work with may be sinners and unbelievers. So, if you ‘’think’’ you cannot do street evangelism, then you can as well do the office evangelism.
When you do things excellently and when you are always punctual, you are evangelizing. When you contribute to the goals of the company, you are evangelizing. The way you manage crisis can evangelize to people. If you refuse to be involved in crime or fraudulent activities in the office, Christ is being preached and vice versa. It is not until you preach to someone about Christ in the office before you should realize you are actually doing that. You should know that if you start preaching in the office, you may be sacked. But if an opportunity unfolds itself to preach one on one and not at working hours, that will be a great opportunity to preach Christ.
Romans 2: 24 says, ‘’for the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written’’.
However, many of us cannot preach the gospel in our offices because our way of life is even worse than that of the unbelievers in the office. We lie, cheat, conspire against and do wicked things that when we eventually have the opportunity to preach to the people around us, they will prefer be unbelievers and go to hell than to be like us who claim to be Christians, but the most evil and terrible things are perpetuated by us in the office. No wonder the harvest is not being harvested in the office place which could be a great but technical place to evangelize.