Eighty-year-old Tita Nava gave her testimony in a church in Manila. A retired college professor and administrator, she had been searching in her later years for God. She wanted a relationship with "a living being, not a statue." A friend recommended that she join a group called the "Golden Girls," which was connected with an evangelical church.

Tita began attending the group regularly, opened her heart to Jesus, and was born again. She testified that Jesus took away her sharp tongue, her critical spirit, and her intellectual pride. In their place He gave her joy.

She described what happened when she began to live her faith before her friends: "My former group began treating me as if I had contracted a deadly communicable disease." Then, with a twinkle in her eyes, she said, "I hope I contaminate them."

In the early days of the church, the life-giving gospel spread quickly through Jerusalem (Acts 2:41). But the religious leaders treated this new movement as a deadly disease and tried to stop its growth (4:16-18).

If you have put your faith in Christ, expose your friends to the truth. "Contaminate" them with the life-giving message of the gospel.  — David C. Egner