Being embarrassed about Jesus?

Salvation is not a matter of attitude. It is a matter of trust. If you trusted in the gospel when you were a kid, it may be that you are a Christian now even if you have been taken in by various collegiate assertions that commonly undermine faith.

Many have gone to college and been made to feel ashamed of their faith. This is because those who attach themselves to college advocate a different religion, secularism (the worship of man in general and self in particular). That these people are disconnected from God, the source of wisdom, can be seen by the lunitic ideas they often espouse.

Communism. Everyone can have everything all of the time for free. This sounds attractive, but one does not need to be a rocket scientists to calculate the impracticality.

Sexual profligacy. If it feels good, do it. This 1960s adage associated with the drug culture has ruined many lives as it's shortsightedness has often resulted in disease, addiction, and the loss of innocence that destroys relationships.

Diversity. The intentional acceptance of something in spite of one's reservations. This crippling of one's discernment can be seen as shooting oneself in the foot.

Transgenderism. This is perhaps the last straw of collegiate insanity. Affirming those in their delusion such that half will attempt suicide seems cruel.

It is no wonder that so many kids sent to college become ashamed of Christ. Often those so bullied in later years begin to question what they were assured was true in college. A couple of verses that may bear on this phenomena;

2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

Christian parents themselves were deceived to send their children to be bullied by the world when they were warned not to;

1Jn_2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Colleges have harnessed the power of social pressure. However, what they present as "truth" does not stand up to skeptical scrutiny. While not everyone has the capacity to push back against a bully, the bully should consider that he will pay a price.

Mat_18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

I would think we need to try to love God & our neighbor ( Matthew 22:36-40 etc,) and to want to see our neighbor saved as we hopefully ( 1 Corinthians 13:12-13) have been saved ( see the golden rule Matthew 7:12 in light of Matthew 7:1-12). We need to understand God’s love for us, his warning to us, but that there is always hope also ( see John 3:16-21).

When I was younger I was very passionate about YEC. I had been in serious deciet. Eventually that passion about YEC ballooned into all of the Gospel.
I think YEC is an essential to the Gospel. If you were sharing about YEC, you may've been tilling the ground for someone else to plant a seed w/ the Gospel or planting seeds yourself. Or have the passion about YEC balloon into a appreciation of the full Gospel. God is always working & he has called many laborers!

I did not know you had that background. It appears while you were very intersted in YEC, you weren't getting the rest of it.

We should not be surprised when many living in total sin come to the Lord with a full passion like your sisters. They have a unique testimony that someone who was saved much younger just doesn't have. God saves all kinds: those who were saved a lot younger & those who were saved later. One reason is b/c it is to show the power is not in human beings but him.

Sadly a lot of emphasis on evangelism has been lost in the name of unity. Evangelism is a primary mission of the church. It is great that you are questioning the need to evangelize. Our lives are a mission field. We don't have to go overseas or knock on doors to evangelize. God has so ordered our lives, evangelism opportunities will come, but we need to take advantage of them when they come. The lost aren't afraid of talking about their beliefs, we shouldn't be either.

Yes, I do think many people who call themselves Christians are in serious danger of going to hell. A lot of the time they are just checking a box they're a Christian. They believe a vague Jesus, that he loved people & we should do that too, & they went to church on Christmas, & that's more or less the extent of it. That's really believing yourself.

JohnClay said:

Also my sisters' pastor (or "prophet") says that most so-called Christians are going to hell, including his Christian grandmother:

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Why do Christians like to say that so much?