Friends, Foes and Lovers
Would you become friends with The Boss? How about sex before marriage? These provocative questions were posed at the forum and talk-show which were the focus of the Combined Districts Young Adults Gathering on 4 April 2008.
By Kevin Kwang, Tan Rou’en and Gillian Ang
ramifications it might have. While
towards non-disclosure.
the reasons varied in content, the panelists had no qualms in
At the end of the evening, Pastor
befriending their superiors, even
Dominic Yeo took to the stage
if it might cause envy or gossip
to share some of his thoughts
with their colleagues.
on the complexity of office relationships between opposite
But it was, perhaps, the second
genders. He shared candidly of his
question which created a bit
own response to the blog entry
more of a stir, when the question
scenario, calling it “professional
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of making friends with the
will”, where we, as Christians,
The working adults had a forum
opposite gender was broached.
have to “set the motivation of
discussion that revolved essentially
A blog entry depicting a scenario
both heart and mind right” and
around friendship in the workplace.
where a man and a woman,
exercise discipline and
It was facilitated by Pastor Larry
who spent most of their time
practicality in averting
Lee, and joining him were 6 young
working together on a project,
the allure of attraction.
working adults, who were the
began to wonder if they had
panelists for the evening.
feelings for each other. The catch: one of them was married. The
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Would you become friends with
audience was then invited to
The Boss? This question kicked
discuss among themselves their
off a thought-provoking session
personal reaction to the scenario,
as Pastor Larry asked if the panel
particularly if it happened to
and audience were for the idea
them. While some chose to be
of befriending their bosses,
upfront to their partners about
and what some of the possible
the feelings, others leaned
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