Sometimes being a Christian in the world is a bit like piloting a boat through a strong current. The direct line that you think you'll be taking through life is sometimes affected by things external to yourself, so you end up having to correct your direction to take them into account - once you've realised that you've drifted that is..
When you're correcting, it pays to keep your eye fixed on where you want to be - and maybe look out for the hazards in between..
Bearing in mind, of course, that correction is probably going to be an ongoing thing, especially at the beginning of the trip.

One thing I find problematic with being a Christian is that I'm not more outgoing about it. I.e. I don't feel the need or desire to 'preach' to people as such, and even when I do, I think I like to talk about what I understand to be real about my faith, as opposed to what other people have said to me.
That is, I only want to share what I believe, not what someone else has said and that maybe I sort of agree with, but I'm not sure about. Maybe I'm just a bit cautious about passing things on as "Gospel".

Some people make God so inaccessible at times. To hear them talk, God is only accessible via "The secret handshake" - which ONLY they know, and which changes every week - and the only way that you'll get to heaven is by worshipping THEIR way.
If God, who made everyone and everything, can understand people speaking in tongues, I think he can probably understand YOUR prayer without someone else's intervention.
Maybe you want to raise your hands when you pray, maybe you don't - that's up to you. Maybe you want to sing, dance, or maybe you want to sit down the back of your church and pray - the connection is between you and God - not you and your church. God knows your Heart.

On both Pimple and Weight Loss Commercials they seem to favour "Before" and "After" images. That is, you get to seem the model before and after they've used the product.
Sometimes I think people believe that there's only "Before" and "After" for Christians as well - that once you become a Christian, you become an "After" - and with that a Christian role model.
I think in real life you just end up somewhere in between "Before" and "After" - making the journey.
I don't think I'd like to be the "After" role model for anyone, as I think that'd make me hyperconcious of my actions being misinterpreted. So then I'd spend huge amounts of time hiding the bad things I do instead of fixing them, because I'd want the "After" image to be right.
But really, I'm neither a "Before" nor an "After" - I'm an "In Progress".
The effort, thought, and prayer goes into the Journey, not the destination.