It’s time to go back to school. As a Christian student, you don’t want to be intimidated. You want to know that you have rights. You do. You don’t give up your constitutional rights when you choose to follow Jesus. Not everyone, including many school officials, realize that.
I recently experienced the knee jerk reaction that the current politically correct climate fosters. An inmate complained about a blog I wrote. Violating their own written policies in their rush to respond, ministry leaders suspended me. It’s all been cleared up, but it made real for me the battle we face in the current climate. Just today, I read that chaplains have been suspended from their ministry to juvenile offenders because they would not agree to refrain from calling certain acts sinful.
We have the same rights as everyone else as Christians. However, we may have responsibilities that others can ignore. We have to be careful not to be so focused on talked about Jesus that we fail to be Jesus.
In school or anywhere else, you can meet with other Christians. You can talk about your beliefs. You can distribute literature. You can pray. You can carry and study your bible. You can deal with your faith in assignments.
It’s great to know your rights and to exercise them when appropriate. Don’t lose sight of the goal, in school or anywhere else. We want others to know the Jesus we know. In fact, that’s our responsibility. It doesn’t change that we have rights, but in some situations it may temper how we choose to exercise those rights.
Sometimes the best way to share Jesus isn’t in exercising our rights. It’s in being a loving example for others. What we do is much more important than what we say. Our best witness is to act in such a way that others seek us out to discover what makes us different.
Conversion happens when a soul in turmoil sees a soul in peace. Be Jesus. Don’t just talk about Him. No earthly authority can defeat your sometimes silent witness of love.
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