Getting Offended Or Choosing To Get Offended?

That's Abi on the left, Melissa in the middle and Annabel on the right.

I just got back from Church and we have this wonderful lady, Melissa. She speaks at our church from time to time. She is such a good speaker and I get really excited when I find out that she is speaking. Today she talked about it being Christmas morning everyday. Melissa has had some really hard times with her family she found out shortly after she got married that having children was going to be a problem and that doctors told her that if she ever had kids the chances of it not turning out into a miscarriage. God blessed her though with two daughters. Her first daughter Annabel is a normal teenager and even though the pregnancy was hard and again the doctors didn't believe that the baby would survive she made it. Abi her second daughter was a different story. The pregnancy was a obstacle and when Abi was born she had a lot of complications. Abi can't speak verbally and moving is a problem. She has to talk through signing but still for a little girl that can't be fun. I wish that I could tell you the whole story about Abi and the family because the story was just so of God. Like I said before she is a great speaker and she talked about how we need to keep our light shinning for God. We get asked so many times how we keep the 'Christmas spirit'. She said that we need to notice the little things in everyday life and share the love to other people.
She also talked about how atheism is the number one growing community. How we need to share our faith and how we don't want to 'offend' anything but when she said this it really struck a cord in me.
"Do we ever think that when we are trying so hard to not offend other people we are really offending Christ."
That is something that I never thought about. It's something that I do a lot and I try so hard to not offend other people that I forget that I need to live for Christ. People are so sensitive these days and say something that you think is so simple but you've offended someone. Ben Carson who is retired pediatric neurosurgeon at Hopkins was one time speaking somewhere and he was talking about anorexia and how girls are getting way to skinny and that they look like they were from a concentration camp. A jewish man came up to him and told him that he couldn't talk about that.
"You can't talk about concentration camps! That is way to sensitive. That's like me talking about slavery." 
Ben Carson is a African American by the way. To which he replied.
"You can say whatever you want about slavery it won't bother me."
So the next time you get offended think about it. Was it really worth it? At the same time though share your faith boldly because that's what we are here to do as Christians. If you are of a different religion and someone tries to talk to you about Christ or their faith please listen and I will do the same for other religions and beliefs.
Also if you could pray for the Richardson family that would be awesome. Their going through a hard time right now and prayers and love would be greatly appreciated.
DFTBA
-AB