What should you do when your “Christian” workplace is not following Christian principles?\u00a0 The teacher’s contract states that: “The above-mentioned teacher will: 3a. Faithfully serve God, as a Christian in good standing.”\u00a0 This is the first item in the section about duties the teacher must perform.\u00a0 Then in 5e, it says: “The teacher may not be absent from teaching for more than seven work (teaching) days during the whole school year…”.<\/p>\n
As i write this now, March 16, i have not missed even one minute of school time in the little-over 7 months i worked there, except for one sick day last November.\u00a0 Last Friday in our faculty meeting, i read 3 paragraphs from the Spirit of Prophecy about how the message of warning and reproof must live in the church, or we will get cut down by the slaughtering weapons of the 5 men in Ezekiel 9.\u00a0 Then i gave that paper and a little letter i had given to some of the parents to the administrator, and read item 3a.\u00a0 Then i looked up to the administrator, and said: “Our administrator —- has made it impossible to obey this item.\u00a0 But i must obey.\u00a0 I thank you for the opportunity to work here, i will not be returning”.\u00a0 The administrator looked up with an astonished look, said “huh?”, so i repeated, standing up, then slowly walked out to sounds of laughter from the head teacher.<\/p>\n
Of course i had thot of this a long time.\u00a0 I had first mentioned grave concerns about our school honoring a false god around 4 months previous.\u00a0 I had prayed and hoped and coaxed a bit to get the administrator to not only correct that problem, but other problems where Satan’s presence was being directly invited onto school grounds, as in allowing children to wear buddhist jewelry into the school etc..\u00a0 But nothing was ever done physically by the administrator to remove the idols, or the stain of our honoring idols, from school property, and the name of the being in our school name – Christ.<\/p>\n
During the last week i thot many times of the following two texts as applying to all the Seventh-day Adventist teachers at our school, and since the responsibility lies highest with the administartor, this applies with the most force to him – “(Matthew 6:23)\u00a0 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”\u00a0 and\u00a0 “(1 Kings 18:17-18)\u00a0 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?\u00a0 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.”\u00a0 For the word “Baalim”, insert “Buddha” to bring it up to date.<\/p>\n
Please, please administrator and teachers, if you are reading this, “(Hebrews 3:15)\u00a0 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.”<\/p>\n
May the administrator repent, resolve to follow God fully, and remove the evil influences from the school so that item 3a in the contract CAN be fulfilled, and i will glady return to give glory to God.<\/p>\n
May we put away the sins that so easily beset us, and run the race, the race leading to a glorious crown of eternal life that all may receive freely from the own mighty right arm of our lovely saviour – Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What should you do when your “Christian” workplace is not following Christian principles?\u00a0 The teacher’s contract states that: “The above-mentioned teacher will: 3a. Faithfully serve God, as a Christian in good standing.”\u00a0 This is the first item in the section about duties the teacher must perform.\u00a0 Then in 5e, it says: “The teacher may not …<\/p>\n