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Originally Posted by QNancyBoy
Hey fellow free-loving followers of christ,
I'm thinking of coming out to my family and freinds, and my community in general. I'm sure with the world being what it is today, so full of hate and evil, that many people have the same issue i'm having. You see, i've got two jewish friends and unfortunately my neighborhood is chalk full of friendly yet suspicious arabs... That coupled with the fact that my family is atheist puts me in a big giant juicy pickle. How did everyone here come out and express their admiration and devotion to jesus? Any advice would be a godsend, i cant hide it any longer.. Im coming out and i want the world to know, for Jesus.
Xoxoxo
~Qnancyboy
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Hello Qnancy,
I'm relieved this is your problem. I read your thread title and thought you may be after a big giant juicy pickle.
Anyway, I grew up in the Bible Belt and did not have contend with such wickedness. Professing faith in a small town Southern Baptist Church was a serious but relatively safe experience.
Paying heed to the Book of Romans, I would start with the Jews:
Romans 1:16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
(You may ask why not the Romans next- especially in the Book of Romans but remember, Greece is halfway between Rome and Israel.)
Regardless, I would pay heed to all the Christians that have suffered and died before you. Nothing you experience will come close to their tribulations. At least until those dune coons try to blow you up.
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." (Matthew 5:16)
"But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery." (Matthew 5:32)