Conclusion

I am convinced that sharing can be very helpful (both for us and for the other person), and that if we have thought these things through carefully, prayed, discussed with someone else, and prepared the ground, most negative reactions can be avoided. However, remember that a negative reaction says as much about the person themselves and their own issues and prejudices, as it does about you. We must judge ourselves as GOD judges us (sinners, justified by grace) and not as other people might judge us.

"For God, who said, 'let light shine out of darkness,' has made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. For we have this treasure in jars of clay [earthen vessels] to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed."  2 Corinthians 4:6-9