Do you hide your faith from others?

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
TheNarrowPath

TheNarrowPath

Well-known member
#1
Jul 17, 2022
1,012
548
113
#1
Do you hide your belief in God, your Christianity from your family? your partner? your work colleagues? your friends?
Do you have reasons why nobody knows you follow Christ? Or is it so personal this relationship between you and God that its nobodys business? Or is it because you dont really follow Him?

Or does your circle of fam and friends/workmates know of your love for the Lord? Your words praise Him, your actions honour Him...
 
MsMediator

MsMediator

Well-known member
#2
Mar 8, 2022
1,160
765
113
#2
My family, friends, and few coworkers know. I make sure my friends know, or people with whom I would like to continue the friendship, so I can weed out people who are not interested in continuing the friendship. Talking about religion at work is not socially acceptable and actually frowned upon, so no one talks about religion except those who are anti-Christian always manage to say something. When you are hired by a company, the employers trust you are trying to "fit in". Work is one of those environments where you have to put aside all differences to get the job done. It really depends on the work environment too; if you are working in a small rural town where everyone is Christian it is easy to talk about Christ and may be socially acceptable. I think our actions and work ethics honor Christ.
 
JohnDB

JohnDB

Well-known member
#3
Jan 16, 2021
6,278
2,556
113
#3
Once upon a time I did...

But then I gave it up and just didn't care.
And I figured it's not my job to hide.

I am who I am. Love me or bugger off.

I've been happier ever since.
 
Cameron143

Cameron143

Well-known member
#4
Mar 1, 2022
20,061
6,870
113
62
#4
You can't really hide who you are. Given enough time, it's not particularly hard to figure out. The way we dress, our choice of words, our actions, all speak to who we are. Eventually, what's down in the well comes up in the bucket.
It would concern me more about myself if I didn't want people to know. And it bothers me on a personal level that people can't just tell that I'm a Christian by the way I live because it means I'm probably not living as I should be. It means my light isn't shining and I'm not living in a way that causes people to take notice and are pointed towards God. Few verses in the bible have so convicted me as Matt 5:16...

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
 
MessengerofTruth

MessengerofTruth

Well-known member
#5
Dec 21, 2022
688
435
63
#5
I would like to encourage the ladies that it is easier for us to immediately be recognized in this culture by our carefulness not to cause another to stumble by our dress and our high standard of holiness. If the world does not know by looking at you I would encourage you to humbly ask the LORD to reveal His will for you in this that you may use the talent He has given you to ecru interest, you don't have to say a word often, just your presence. Hope this may be edifying.
 
N

notonmywatch

Guest
#6
#6
TheNarrowPath said:
Or does your circle of fam and friends/workmates know of your love for the Lord? Your words praise Him, your actions honour Him...
Click to expand...
With the exception of some of my coworkers, everybody knows that I'm a Christian. I work in an environment where one can't really profess their faith, but I do with one or two coworkers sort of secretly anyway. I think that my words and actions normally praise him, but not always at work. I get frustrated there at times, and I don't always respond in a godly manner, so I definitely need help in that area. I'm gradually improving there, so I think that I'm headed in the right direction.
 
Blade

Blade

Well-known member
#7
Nov 19, 2019
1,799
630
113
#7
I know what your trying to do but there are those all over the world that must hide their faith and they follow they know Him. I think speaking words of life, encouraging, uplifting words should always be shared. To say all the OP did yet end with "Or is it because you dont really follow Him? ". Praise God were as the word says not here to please men.
 
Y

Yoke-Fellow

New member
#8
Jan 7, 2023
17
19
3
#8
I’m proud of being a Christian, so I don’t hide my faith. ….but I think that even if we could, most of us couldn't even disguise that we love Jesus. We are a “peculiar people“ and we shine! :)
 
ReQuiem

ReQuiem

New member
#9
Jul 31, 2022
28
9
3
#9
"32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven."
Matthew 10:32-33

" 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. "
Romans 10:9-10
 
notmyown

notmyown

Senior Member
#10
May 26, 2016
4,927
1,273
113
#10
TheNarrowPath said:
Do you hide your belief in God, your Christianity from your family? your partner? your work colleagues? your friends?
Do you have reasons why nobody knows you follow Christ? Or is it so personal this relationship between you and God that its nobodys business? Or is it because you dont really follow Him?

Or does your circle of fam and friends/workmates know of your love for the Lord? Your words praise Him, your actions honour Him...
Click to expand...
i really can't get through even a casual conversation without talking about the Lord Jesus.

and thanks to you, i now realize i ought to be praying i bring Him glory.
truly, thank you!
 
Lanolin

Lanolin

Well-known member
#11
Dec 15, 2018
23,460
7,188
113
#11
I dont hide Him
He hides me... Colossians 3:3
 
shittim

shittim

Senior Member
#12
Dec 16, 2016
13,930
7,844
113
#12
When we keep ourselves "stayed on Him" we walk in His protection.
 
MsMediator

MsMediator

Well-known member
#13
Mar 8, 2022
1,160
765
113
#13
There is a Muslim manager at work who is always respectful, fair, honest, no drama, and very faithful to his religion (no alcohol, doesnt check out women, fasts during Eid, etc.). I have always thought that he is a good example for someone who may be wandering and deciding on religions may be swayed towards Islam. Our actions show who we are.
 
oyster67

oyster67

Senior Member
#14
May 24, 2014
11,887
8,705
113
#14
TheNarrowPath said:
Do you hide your belief in God, your Christianity from your family? your partner? your work colleagues? your friends?
Do you have reasons why nobody knows you follow Christ? Or is it so personal this relationship between you and God that its nobodys business? Or is it because you dont really follow Him?

Or does your circle of fam and friends/workmates know of your love for the Lord? Your words praise Him, your actions honour Him...
Click to expand...
I do talk to them about Jesus. I just wish that my walk was a little better.

So often, we see evangelism as a burden. It is really a limited-time opportunity...

Matthew 6:20
“But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:”
 
shittim

shittim

Senior Member
#15
Dec 16, 2016
13,930
7,844
113
#15
I only talk Jesus, the ignorant by choice leave my presence, his Own, or those who will come to Him, stay.
 
oyster67

oyster67

Senior Member
#16
May 24, 2014
11,887
8,705
113
#16
We need to be empowered by the Spirit and empower one another. I can remember when I was very young. I was ashamed of everything. We must not fear rejection. We must die to self. Remember what Jesus endured for us...

Hebrews 12:2
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
 
shittim

shittim

Senior Member
#17
Dec 16, 2016
13,930
7,844
113
#17
I have heard it taught that timidity with the Gospel is quite displeasing to the Father
 
TheNarrowPath

TheNarrowPath

Well-known member
#18
Jul 17, 2022
1,012
548
113
#18
Blade said:
I know what your trying to do but there are those all over the world that must hide their faith and they follow they know Him. I think speaking words of life, encouraging, uplifting words should always be shared. To say all the OP did yet end with "Or is it because you dont really follow Him? ". Praise God were as the word says not here to please men.
Click to expand...
My past is that I used to hide that I believed in God. I dont know why, maybe because I didnt have the faith part, maybe I thought I could have the best of both worlds. I no longer want to live like that, and I hope others can see we are in this world but not of this world when we belong to Christ.
 
TheNarrowPath

TheNarrowPath

Well-known member
#19
Jul 17, 2022
1,012
548
113
#19
oyster67 said:
We need to be empowered by the Spirit and empower one another. I can remember when I was very young. I was ashamed of everything. We must not fear rejection. We must die to self. Remember what Jesus endured for us...

Hebrews 12:2
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Click to expand...
I put in bold what you wrote because you must be the third person this week who said that here to me (and others). So true Brother!!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.