Issues Facing Missions Today 31: Post-Christian Culture and Changes in the Workplace In this post, I would like to compare the challenges facing Christians in the workplace around AD 200 and today. Both contexts involve Christians living as a minority group within a larger society. The former period is represented in the writings of Tertullian, who advised Christians how to live in a pre-Christian society. Does Tertullian give us some food for thought as we increasingly realize in the West that we live in a post-Christian society? The Christian author, Tertullian, addressed the issue of how the minority Christian group should maintain its convictions in the pagan workplace. He wrote in an era of idolatry and persecution. In On Idolatry , Tertullian discussed certain types of work that he believed Christians could not do because they involved a compromise of their faith. While some occupations were acceptable to Christians, others were clearly not. Obviously, Christia