How Candace Cameron Bure Pushes Herself to Share Her Faith
By Movieguide® Contributor
Candace Cameron Bure says sometimes she has to get out of her comfort zone when sharing her faith with others.
During an Instagram Q&A, one fan asked, “Does evangelism come easy for you?”
“Depends,” Bure answered. “On social media, on a stage, in interviews — yes. With people I know pretty well — yes. One-on-one is much harder for me and I have to push myself out of my comfort zone. Like, I don’t really want to evangelize to the person sitting next to me on an airplane. Have I before? Yes, but it’s not what I’m inclined to do.”
Bure recently opened up about the difficulties she encountered when sharing her faith with her now-husband Valeri Bure.
“I was so enthusiastic to tell Val about God,” she said in a recent YouTube clip. “He was, like, ‘Don’t talk to me about Him. It’s making me take two steps back.’”
Bure said she went to the Bible for guidance and found 1 Peter 3:1 — “Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husband so that even if they do not obey the Word, they without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wife.”
“Then, I started praying, ‘God, mold me into the woman that you’ve called me to be to show Val who you are by how I treat him, how I care for him as a wife,’” she said. “I prayed those every day, but I was focusing on ‘Lord, mold me and change me into the woman you want me to be so I can show him who you are through my actions.’”
Val eventually came to Christ, and Bure credits their shared faith for their decades of marriage.
“Marriage is so wonderful. And yet there are so many ups and downs over the years,” she told Fox News. “I’ve said it before, but the secret has not just been the commitment to God and the blueprint that God provides us biblically within a marriage, but it’s honoring one another. I think that’s where the focus is for us. That we honor God in all our actions first and foremost, but that is an outpouring of the love that we share together whether we really feel like it or not at the moment.”
Bure added, “The love has grown over the years. When you really do go through the depths of the valley, and you come back out on top as many times as you go through that roller coaster of life — within marriage, every time you come back on top it’s like another notch in the belt of commitment, staying together.”
Bure also shares her faith through her work as an actress; most notably, in the movies she makes for Great American Family.
“I’ve been an actor since I was 5 years old, and even well into my 30s, acting was always in No. 1 place,” she told The Christian Post. “Then my goals really changed in that I wanted to be able to imagine the stories I wanted to tell, and then help develop those from the ground up. My faith is everything to me. It’s who I am, and it inspires me to pour energy into family and faith programming that serves an underserved audience.”
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