Welcome to the Eric Mettaxas show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey there, folks. You know what time it is. Albin, do you know what time it is, man?

Well, it's Thursday. It's our two. So ask Metaxis? It's time for another segment that we like to call Ask Metaxus. I play the role of Metaxis and ask. That's what people do. They write in, and by the way, thanks for your questions. Albin will be your mouthpiece. And ask me, me, me, me, me,

and ask me the questions that you yourselves have written to ask. Okay. Here we go. Question number

one, this is very serious. Is it hard being known as a Christian? That's not what it says, is it?

Is it hard being a known Christian? Ah,huh. Uh-huh. Known Christian,

there you go. Does pride ever take hold over you? Pride? Ever take hold of a morally superior

person like me? I don't think so. I don't think so either. Is it hard being a known?

This is a great question. Okay. Is it hard being a known? This is a great question. Okay.

Is it hard being a known Christian, a public Christian?

Yes, in a way.

In other words, I think that you feel a particular obligation to behave in a way that supports what you claim with your mouth to believe in, right?

Yes.

But it's funny because it brings up the bigger issue that we all ought to be living publicly as Christians in a way so that there are people around you who know that you're a Christian

who are looking at you.

Now, those, we ought to all put this pressure on ourselves.

Or are you living as a hidden Christian?

If you're living as a hidden Christian, I would ask you why that is and what you propose

to gain by it. Or how do you glorify God if you are not known

for your faith? Because I think we always make caricatures of what it is to be a public

Christian, you know, the loudmouth jerk who can't stop talking about Jesus, okay, that's a bad model.

But I think that we all have to come to terms with if you believe something, how do you express it in your life?

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