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I laughed so hard about the 'blessed' verbal flare – I totally do that to scope other people out and see if they're in my local underground.

If your operatives are putting 27 pound bibles on their desks, they clearly aren't aware of the rules of covert surveillance. WAY too obvious. Go for the ecclesiastes mini-poster, "everything has a season" – which most people just think is a song.

Right, off to recruit me some more coverts…

Once I walked in on a co-worker telling another that she couldn't wait "tell we get our new bodies" and they immediately stopped talking because I was new and they didn't really know I was part of the underground yet.

I regret that I didn't immediately say, "Me too!"

Actually when I worked in the library at an international school in Saudi Arabia a little girl from Sweeden and I would flash our hidden cross necklaces. I would also dress up when we had to work on Easter Sundays (the weekend is different there).
I won't even get into the secret meetings of our "P" (rotestant)group and what you had to do to get invited to one.

I have a few scriptures taped to the edges of my computer monitor…just reminders:)

Here in the south I would say that for the most part , most people are going to assume that you are Christian unless you specifically say that you are not.

Heck I work at a large international law firm and there are a lot of non Christians here, but we still have an office "Christmas" party. Our floor has a tradition of eating kings cake every Tuesday between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday. At the same time lot of people take off of Passover and I never really understood what a big deal Rosh Hashanah was until I worked here, but still… the assumption tends to be that you are going to be using your floating holiday for Good Friday.

I am a secret Christian at work… everyone knows I am… but I can't outwardly show it. Everynow and then I get an Esther moment and can do something extra at a time such as this – like process Visa paperwork for missionaries going out of country or clearing a background check for an adopting coming in from overseas… The Christian customers come to me as if they are directed and I secretly love every minute of it!

I read this post and all the comments and I don't understand. Unless you live in a country that prosecutes Christians, why do you need to be "covert" at work? I mean, I see not being in people's faces about your faith (too-enthusiastic proselytizing tends to turn people away), but I'm confused by the comments that seem to allude to the "need" to be less-than-open about faith at work. Why hide it?

I was at a Bible college that is so conservative that only in the last few years did they lift the ban on movies. I'm now a youth pastor at a pretty conservative church. Of course my pastor wouldn't care, but I make enough people mad by reaching out to nonChristian students … imagine that.

I'm with Jessica above. Why hide your being a Christian?

But do remember to be tactful; think "salt and light", not urea and flash-bombs, eh?

One time at the office, the weird guy with the twitch who worked in the corner cubicle asked if I was interested in meeting in secret. I assumed that it would be some sort of super-awesome intense Bible study. I met him in the storage building at his house. He had lots of blueprints of the office where we work and lots of pictures of people we both knew. He must have really had a burden for our boss, our general manager and a few co-workers who were apparently not Christians — he had (for quick reference I guess) written "BURN" in red marker all over their photos. He had to have been super smart because I really didn't understand most of what he said. He would talk so fast and then kept asking if I was ready. So as not to appear ignorant, I nodded in agreement every time. This made him very happy.
One day, the police burst into our office and dragged him away in handcuffs. Talk about your religious discrimination. The Man put an end to our plans.
I was sad to see him go. I felt like we could have made a difference.

Last year was my first year of teaching, I found myself blessed to be part of a (not so underground) group of Christians. My entire first grade team is made up of Christians, and some of us have been through some tough stuff in the past year and a half. We've lifted each other up in prayer on several occasions.

I work for a Catholic organization so if there is an covert underground society it is for Protestants. As of right now I'm the only member

Awesome post! I am a grad student at a large, secular university, and I do feel like I'm part of an underground. When I meet new people I try to figure out when to subtly mention "church" and figure out where they stand on the issue. So far, at work I feel like I'm the only Christian. We sometimes have Sunday morning meetings, and I feel like I'm the only one who objects because it interrupts my worship and fellowship time at church, not just my sleep schedule. Though there could be some covert agents that I haven't met yet.

The best suggestion I can offer to hone your “Secret Christian underground skills” is to do some ministry in a country where there is risk of loss of freedom or life for believing in, living and preaching the Gospel. As we sarcastically joke around in our blogs there are thousands of brothers and sisters who carefully and faithfully operate a covert Christian underground guerrilla war against the evil one. They memorize whole chapters of the bible, smuggle literature in ways that would repulse us and put themselves in danger all for the sake of Christ and his mission to bring God’s kingdom to fruition. Lets all learn to be better guerrilla soldieries and forget the politically correct seeker sensitive crap.

All of my jobs to date have been with expressly Christian organizations such as hobby lobby and various religious education institutions. In both we have the secret, underground Twilight fan clubs. You have to keep it on the down-low so you don't get chastised by the vampire-haters.

OMGosh. This is hilarious!! I'll have to check out the cubicles at work more often – bad thing here is most people share computers with someone else so…the ability to leave personal items of decor lying about is slim.

Weirdly, we don't have to be that underground about it at my workplace. You wouldn't guess it, because I work at a fairly large visual effects house. But we're here and when we discover it we don't wait for secret code words. On my last show we only had one-day weekends, so when asked what we were doing, the answer was usually, "Well, I'm going to church," along with whatever else we had planned. And the real blessing in all that has been that I've been able to talk about my faith with my other coworkers who don't share my beliefs.

Though, in fairness, that might just be a characteristic of my particular department- we spend long hours in small rooms together, so we tend to be a pretty close-knit bunch. Still, I'm grateful for it. God has given me a fantastic job with fantastic people, and they've all been a blessing.

Sounds like Jerry Jenkins' Underground Zealot series. "He is risen".

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I hate to spoil your excitement, but you should know that you're not as underground as you think you are (I know who you all are, and I'm not even a member). Not that you even need to be underground. I really have no problem with the fact that you all are Christians and have a sense of unity. But please realize that it's only a fun game because most of you are not actually being forced into the underground out of a real sense of fear for your employment.

As a member of an actual underground, I can assure you it's not exciting, it's no game, and it's really difficult to identify who else is a member. Take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_LGBT_civil_r... As a citizen of the state of Missouri, and as an employee of a private company, I can legally be fired for my sexual orientation. Bring my girlfriend to one employee family function, and it could be my last.

Again, I have nothing against Christian unity. But if you really had to be a member of an underground as a matter of survival, you would remove it from your list of Stuff Christians Like quicker than you can say "unemployment".