RE: "Sikhism’s core values … are devotion, equality, service, justice and honesty."

Perhaps, then, we can be grateful for their deliberate pursuit of virtue? After all, we benefit from it. And we pursue virtue, too. (1 Peter 1:5-7)

RE: “We boldly confess this truth.”

Where there is not much of a threat, there is not much boldness. It seems to me that we Lutherans express our faith largely to one another in the safety of our own church communities.

We “Lutherans are not afraid”? I think that, if we’re honest with ourselves, most of us would acknowledge that certain fears indeed arise as we consider bearing witness to an unbeliever in a direct and personal way, and actually endeavor to do so.