You see, I don't. I don't think God requires me to be a geek (nothing wrong with geeks, but I'm not one, and I'm a Christian), or to not have fun in my life, or to dress like my eighty year-old mother's algebra teacher.
And I think if a kid has that one less obstacle to consider, it's a good thing.
What I said has nothing to do with whether the world likes you for your beliefs. I didn't suggest kids do drugs, have sex, or think sin is good. I said that if they are aware of cool people - people they can relate to - that are Christians, it can do something to overcome an obstacle to being curious about salvation and a relationship with Christ.
But, a lot of people seem to think like you. That is apparent from this thread.
I haven't read this whole thread. Really didn't read past the forst 20 posts, so I'm sure I'm coming into this thing late and probably repetitive. My church is going through this same stuff. When you start down the road of "selling the gospel". Making it attractive enough that people will say ... gee.... yeah ... I could be a christian because it's cool, or because it's not uncool... you've started down a bad path.
You know... there's reasoning among men, and then there's the text. And even the text tells us that what seems right to a man is often folly to God.
I heard a statement that I really agreed with. It's my tag line. What you win them by is what you win them to.
"All things to all men" certainly tends to prevent you from "apearing" uncool. Maybe Paul had something there...