It's questionable

So I'm sitting here at work, bored as all and this girl walks up to the desk and says to the me and the guy I'm working with, "I just want ya'll to know that Jesus loves you and God bless"-wow! Now being shocked all I said was, "thanks" in return when I should've said, "you too" and more. It catches me by surprise when people do things like this, but it shouldn't. Am I brave enough to walk to strangers and tell them that Jesus loves them? Are you? I can honsetly say, I'm probably not. Sitting in my religion class has taught me a lot, about what I really know about my own religion...I don't know as much as I should, that or I don't think I know it and am too afraid to speak up and say what I think the answer is because I don't want to be made a fool of. Whether I know the answer or not, I sit there in silence and pretend not to, that's how a lot of our christian walk is as well, if we're honest with ourselves. Yes, I raise my hand when asked who in here is a christian, but that's it. I'd raise my hand to that any day, but am I brave enough to really say what Matthew tells us to? "To go out and make disciples of all nations..."? I'm even a part of a christian sorority, but what does that mean when you can't say that your a christian sorority, you have to say your a social sorority with christian ideals...can't even have bible verses on our shirts...what kind of christian group is that? If we're not going to speak up and tell others the good news and really go out in to the world and spread the gospel then what good is our christian walk? We can walk the walk, but can we talk the talk? When pastors at church talk about it, we're excited, we're pumped, AMEN!, HALALUJAH, etc. we're ready to conquer the world with bible in hand, and then...we step out of the walls of church, outside our comfort zone and are faced again with the reality that this is a harsh world we're living in and we're afraid to confront the conflicted, the lost, the broken, we're ashamed to talk about God, yet so willing to talk about others. As soon as gossip hits us, we're out there telling everyone and that news spreads like wildfire, but ya know what? God wants us to be spreading what He has said to everyone, why is it so much more difficult to do that? Are we afraid that we'll be cast away from others, that we'll be made fun of, that we'll be called hypocrits, etc? why should it matter? Jesus wasn't afraid to tell others about God and have them come to Him, he wasn't afraid of anything, He even chose to be beat, stoned, whipped, lashed, stabbed, spit on, and DIE because of it, now if that's not ridicule, then I dont know what is-so what are we really afraid of? So the next time you ask Jesus to let me be a lamp unto your word and light unto your path, remember you've got to really follow through with that and be willing to speak up because people have questions, people are lost, broken, wondering, and we've got all the answers if we're just willing to and if we ask God to take away all our fears so that we can share the good news about him to others!