It was sometime in the mid-1980s, I drove down the the Bay Area for some weekend shifts at an ambulance company. I worked the psych ambulance, handling psychiatric patients. There was a man I transported that seemed genuine in his desires to know more about Jesus. Off duty, I visited him at the psychiatric facility to which we’d transported him. Word of my visit got back to the ambulance company. During the next shift I worked I was called into the office. The manager told me that he’d been called about my visit. He said he was a Christian, but that we are not allowed to act on our beliefs at work. I tried to reason with him. . . I was off duty. I was told I’d be fired if this happened again.

A year later a friend, and Calvary Chapel pastor, was fired for doing something very similar to what I’d done—reach out to someone in need, in despair.

Fast forward thirty years and we see things getting worse for Christians in America, as they are for Christians all over the world.

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