Actress and filmmaker Candace Cameron Bure reveals in a new interview that she has lost business opportunities due to her bold stance on faith but that God guided her through those times and ultimately strengthened her.
"God always honors it," Bure said.
The Great American Family actress made the comments during an interview with Karin Lips of The Conservative Woman's Guide podcast when asked to offer advice to young conservative women hesitant to speak out in today's cancel-culture climate.
"I'm right there with you. It scares me," Bure responded. "As bold as some of the moments in my life have been, they haven't been without fear. They haven't been without the worry of, 'Am I going to get canceled?' And the truth is, I've had companies drop me. I've had partnerships pulled out from me because I've spoken up about things. And so what I've learned through that is that, yes, I'm going to be scared. Yes, there will be fear. But God's bigger than that. God didn't give me a spirit of fear. He gave me a spirit of power and of love and of a sound mind.
"God also gives me courage, and so I know that when we have the courage when we can push through the fear, and our courage can be bigger than that, and if it's something that's really important to us, that God always honors it."
Bure acknowledged there may be "negative consequences" to speaking out for Christ, but "you can go to bed -- I can go to sleep at night -- being proud of myself, or saying 'I did the right thing.'"
"And if there are negative consequences, I tell you, it just builds you up," Bure said. "Because you go: Okay, I just took a huge punch. Now, what am I going to do? Am I going to lay on the ground? Am I going to let it get to me, or am I going to get back up? And what can I learn from it? No one wants to get punched. No one wants to get knocked down. But when you do [get knocked down] ... what do you do with it? And when you can get back up, trust me -- the next punch, the next arrow that comes your way, it just helps you to get back up. You kind of build this resistance, and it's not in a jaded way. It's in a courageous way.
"So the next time you're like, 'Oh, I've already been through that. Oh, I already got negativity from that, or I lost some friends from that, or my job let me go. But guess what? I got a new job. I got some new friends. I can do this again.'"
Meanwhile, Bure applauded the Great American Family for its stance on faith and values. She serves as chief creative officer at the company.
"I'm sitting at a place now, especially within my company and with Great American Family channel, in places that have been on my prayer list for years and years and years," she said. "... Ultimately, I'm pursuing the things that I believe God would have me pursue, and He just keeps opening those doors. So I just pray that I stay faithful."
Photo Credit: ©Facebook/Candace Cameron Bure
Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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