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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

• 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.

—PAUL TOURNIER (Swiss psychiatrist)

Credits: Adapted from— Friday: Discipleship Journal (1-2/00)

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