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Transcript 226D — Religious Pressure from Your Employer
HC: Good evening. Welcome to Open Forum.
CALLER: Yes. I have a question about an employment situation, how to respond to an employer who is of another faith, who doesn't recognize sin, and believes that it's an error in thinking, and tries to lead you into that religion rather then in your own faith. And I'll take my answer on the air.
HC: All right. Fine. Thank you. Good night.
What should you do if your employer does not recognize sin, if he belongs to another faith and tries to lead you into that? Of course you have that uneasy situation where you want to be decent and nice to your employer, because you don't want to offend him in any way. He's abusing his privilege. You work for him, and so he's trying to talk you into his particular gospel. And that's not an easy situation sometimes. It can be very difficult.
But again, God lays down some rules. And God says that if someone brings another gospel, then you are to give him no greeting. Now I know that this sounds brutal. This sounds rough, and you run the risk of losing your job. But we have to be faithful to the Word of God.
In II John:10 we read, "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting. For he who greets him shares his wicked work." And so, very quietly, and very tenderly, and ask God for grace and wisdom to do this, if your employer is bugging you about a religion or a gospel that you feel is untrue, and you cannot turn it so that you are able to witness to him, if you find that all he's doing is proselytizing, all he's doing is trying to get you to go his way, then you have to very quietly say, "You know, I delight to work for you. I'm grateful for the job. But would you mind if we just leave that out of our relationship. I really feel that it is unwise for us to have this kind of conversation."
And look for God's help to phrase this as tenderly as possible, and yet be very firm about it. Now your employer may feel very affronted. He may treat you very coldly for this. He may even fire you. But ultimately this is what you must do.
However, make sure that through this conversation there isn't a way of turning, in other words, doing your homework and coming right back at him: "But the Bible says so and so. What do you do with this verse?" and letting him squirm as he tries to face that verse.