Being Unashamed: Significance of Gospel in Roman 1.16

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BEING UNASHAMED
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Introduction
‘Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters
most.’
-Dillon Burroughs
This beautiful quote by Dillon Burrough is very much relatable to us in various contexts. Many
occasions come when we cannot decide whom or what to stand for. Sometimes we decide
something to do and then we feel ashamed for doing so. For example, once I was walking down
the streets and I saw one beggar there who was having a hard time walking on bare foot for a
very long time. I got close and asked her if I could help but I realized that it is not only money
that could help her at that moment. That is why I stood there for a moment and then removed my
shoes and gave that to her. My house was at a little distance from where this happened and when
I was coming back to my house almost everyone on the street was looking at my feet and some
people were gossiping about it too. At that moment I could do two things. I could either run to
my home to avoid any further glances or I could proudly walk knowing the why I was walking
without shoes even though others do not know it. This is what I call being unashamed. You can
also face similar situations in your life when you struggle to either be ashamed of what you do or
you just carry the responsibility of your decisions and move forward with them. So, I can say
that being unashamed is about acting apologetically without felling embarrassed or guilty about
the act. Morality is attached with this notion. I mean that we cannot do unethical things and then
pledge to do them being unashamed. Yes, it can happen that our sense of morality or our beliefs
do not match with beliefs or morals of others. So, in that case, it is not shameful to follow our
faiths if we have our own valid reasons for doing so. Here, I will speak about what it means to be
unashamed in the context of the verse Roman 1.16 that explains how to be unashamed for the
gospel of Christ.
Significances of being unashamed of gospel
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to
everyone that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For in it is the righteousness of
God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith.”
-Roman 1.16, Paul.
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