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Men of Integrity, July/Aug 2000
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Friday, August 18
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Badge on the Line
Key Bible Verse: Live
such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong,
they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us (1 Peter
2:12). Bonus Reading: 2 Corinthians 1:12; 4:2
While
training a rookie officer, I was dispatched to the scene of an attempted suicide.
I frantically pulled a woman, inhaling carbon monoxide fumes through a hose attached
to her car's exhaust, away and into the house.
Listening to the woman
weep over her tragic life, I felt compelled to share my faith. But there were
two problems: My supervisor had stressed that it was against policy to witness
on duty. And the rookie; if I spoke with the woman about Christ, I'd risk his
career too. I explained this to him and he left.
After speaking with the
woman for some time, I phoned my pastor, asking him to come stay with her until
her husband arrived. I then went straight to my supervisor, telling him what
I'd done and why. He said the decision would cost me my badge.
Next morning, the chief
of police received a call from a very influential man who thanked him for training
his officers in religion and for sending a pastor to his house. "My wife's
a new person." The chief was happy to take the credit, and I received a
letter of commendation.
—Jamie Winship in Discipleship Journal
Personal Challenge:
- When is it appropriate to talk about your
faith?
Thought to Apply: Our
task is to love our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to
make it contagious.
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—PAUL
TOURNIER (Swiss
psychiatrist)
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Credits: Adapted from— Friday: Discipleship
Journal (1-2/00)
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