How to spread gospel/live out Christs love in secular occupations?

[ChildOfTheLight]

A little confused…

As a Catholic I think it is important to bring people to God. I would like too help many people grow to love Jesus, and I have done summer missionary work.

Trouble is, I am called to a secular career (I think) (math/sciance teacher) where I may not be able to even mention the word “God” without getting in trouble (some schools are getting pretty multireligion tolerant or aniti-religious and won’t allow any teacher to bring God into the class).

I know we can/should bring people to God through secular (or seemingly secular means). If this is unclear, I mean like many consider CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Christian story writers yet “God” and “Jesus” are not words even mentioned in their fiction books.

I’d like to know/hear how others in secular careers have come to
1)bring people to God
2)evangilized
3)spread gospel
4)shared Christ’s love
(or stories of how you were brought to God or felt His love through someone else)
in situations where religion was not the main topic of the conversation/action. Is this clear?

Is it just about others seeing you live a Catholic lifestyle? Helping people see the world as Christians do? Loving as Jesus loves?

I could use advice or examples but please feel free to turn this thread into a celebration of these experiences, and just share wonderful stories around.

 

[PiousTemplar]

This thread may help you out:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=562247

 

[TEPO]

A little confused…

As a Catholic I think it is important to bring people to God. I would like too help many people grow to love Jesus, and I have done summer missionary work.

Trouble is, I am called to a secular career (I think) (math/sciance teacher) where I may not be able to even mention the word “God” without getting in trouble (some schools are getting pretty multireligion tolerant or aniti-religious and won’t allow any teacher to bring God into the class).

I know we can/should bring people to God through secular (or seemingly secular means). If this is unclear, I mean like many consider CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien as Christian story writers yet “God” and “Jesus” are not words even mentioned in their fiction books.

I’d like to know/hear how others in secular careers have come to
1)bring people to God
2)evangilized
3)spread gospel
4)shared Christ’s love
(or stories of how you were brought to God or felt His love through someone else)
in situations where religion was not the main topic of the conversation/action. Is this clear?

Is it just about others seeing you live a Catholic lifestyle? Helping people see the world as Christians do? Loving as Jesus loves?

I could use advice or examples but please feel free to turn this thread into a celebration of these experiences, and just share wonderful stories around.

Honestly I’ve been working on answering this same question for myself for quite some time now, and honestly, I think it’s going to take a lifetime to understand it. Hopefully when I’m an old man I’ll be able to look back on my life and see that the decisions I made actually did work out in spreading Gods love. Somehow…

Just don’t forget the one single most important detail of all… Never let the secular world corrupt your Catholicity. You should always protect your faith first and foremost before you can ever help others. This secular world will continue testing us -over and over and over again.

 

[karow]

Trouble is, I am called to a secular career (I think) (math/sciance teacher) where I may not be able to even mention the word “God” without getting in trouble (some schools are getting pretty multireligion tolerant or aniti-religious and won’t allow any teacher to bring God into the class).

While it’s certainly true you won’t last long in the public schools of the US if you directly evangelize in the classroom, there is nothing stopping you from doing God’s work in the schools by:

1. choosing to work with a desperately under-served student populations (urban, poor, at-risk, transient, migrant, pregnant, English learner, etc.);
2. teaching in a county jail or juvenile detention facility;
3. teaching in a home health situation (the students are too ill physically or emotionally to attend school);
4. becoming a special education teacher of any stripe.

Those are just four ways I can think of off the top of my head, but they give you some ideas of how you could serve God by serving humanity as a teacher.

“Preach the Gospel always. When necessary, use words.”