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		<title>Christian Expectations- Flaunt it or Let it show when it needs to?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got into a discussion with my housemate, John today about Christian expectations and how much of our faith we present to the world. I immediately mentioned that I don&#8217;t often &#8216;get into it&#8217; with people about my faith, where as John and some of my other friends are more outgoing with their beliefs. This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got into a discussion with my housemate, John today about Christian expectations and how much of our faith we present to the world. I immediately mentioned that I don&#8217;t often &#8216;get into it&#8217; with people about my faith, where as John and some of my other friends are more outgoing with their beliefs. This led me to ponder quietly to myself in a corner [this isn't a fiction book -ed] why folks like me aren&#8217;t more outspoken about our faith. Are we weak? Lacking in true faith? Surely the Bible suggests we should share our faith at the top of our lungs??</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t feel so. I don&#8217;t feel we&#8217;re all called to share the word at every opportunity. I do look for situations I feel it&#8217;s appropriate to share my beliefs with others, but more often than not they aren&#8217;t on a street corner, or the front of a church. Does that make me a poor Christian?  Once my family suggested to me that I should be a &#8216;politician, lawyer or preacher&#8217; &#8211; oh, how I disdain that idea. I&#8217;ll be honest: I&#8217;ve felt called to share my faith in a public situation several times: each time I&#8217;ve denied the urge out of fear of ignorance. I have many ideas about my faith, very few are ideas I regard as set in stone. This does two things: bother many people and set me up to feel uneasy about sharing those views with others. If I am open to arguments and possibly changing my views, why would I present them to others as truth? Truth is that I don&#8217;t know enough about God to say much. </p>
<p>I do enjoy a good discussion about the ideas I hold, and that you hold. Of course then you&#8217;d have to hear about how much I hate the divide and fall of the Churches, how most Churches frustrate me to the point of not attending, and about how ignorance isn&#8217;t FAITH.  So, am I terrible?? Does broaching this subject on my blog loose half the 2 readers??  Some days I like to do things that I have decided are a bad idea just to see the fallout. (when they&#8217;re not bad things, obviously) I don&#8217;t walk away from someone asking me why I choose to have the idea of Christianity: I also don&#8217;t believe that my ideas are always the correct path.</p>
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