Do not be ashamed to bear witness to our Lord. Thus Paul recommended Timothy not to be ashamed to bear witness to the Gospel. And we Christians are set to be a living testimony of ALL God's works, so shame does not help much. “A light is not turned on and placed under a bushel, but on the lampstand, and it illuminates all who are at home.” (Matthew 5:15) Something that seems too strange to me is the omissions that we, as Christians, have made in instructing about this bad feeling called "shame." There will even be those who say that shame is a positive feeling, and what evil do those who are not ashamed. What is shame? First, it is a very powerful feeling. It looks like fear, but it is something else. It is mentioned for the first time in the book of Genesis 2:25: "Both the man and his wife were naked, but neither was ashamed to be like this." I don't know about you, but it seems to me that it must have been nice to be without shame. But this ideal st