Let the World be Uncomfortable
There is a kind of Christianity the world is perfectly willing to tolerate, the kind that stays quiet, asks nothing difficult, blesses whatever everybody was already doing and never becomes serious enough to interfere with anybody's plans. you can believe in God as long as belief remains another private preference, you can wear a cross as long as you never mention what happened on it, you can speak about love as long as you never speak about sin, repentance, judgment, obedience or sacrifice, and you can call yourself Christian as long as the world is still allowed to decide which parts of Christianity are acceptable.
Christ did not describe it that way
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen youout of the world. That is why the world hates you." John 15:18–19. There is very little room in those words for the idea that Christianity is supposed to become agreeable enough that nobody is ever disturbed by it.
Truth has never depended on being well received. If everybody around you calls a sin harmless, it remains sin, if everybody laughs at something holy, it remains holy, if everybody tells you that obedience has made you strange, strangeness does not become a sin. the crowd cannot vote something into righteousness, a family cannot love something into righteousness, a generation cannot normalize something into righteousness, and a thousand approving voices cannot make falsehood true before God.
Sometimes following Christ will put a person on a road that people close to them do not understand, and sometimes those people will sincerely wish they would turn around. that can hurt much more than the contempt of strangers because the approval of strangers was never worth very much in the first place, while the voices of family are among the first voices we ever learn to obey. They teach us what is normal, respectable, embarrassing and safe, so when following God begins to lead somewhere they would not have chosen, their disappointment can feel almost like proof that something has gone wrong, but it didn't.
Christ was severe about this too "Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.' Matthew 10:37. The Church does not teach that family is disposable, quite the opposite, we owe parents honor, families have real duties toward one another and disagreement is never permission for cruelty or contempt, but even the catechism says plainly that family ties are important and are not absolute because the first vocation of a Christian is to follow Jesus.
So love your family, honor them, pray for them, listen when they correct you because sometimes they will be right, help them when they need you and never become so proud that you imagine disagreement itself proves your holiness, but there is a throne inside the conscience where family cannot sit, where friends cannot sit, where society cannot sit and where the entire world gathered together cannot sit, because that place already belongs to God
this is where people become frightened of being called extreme. too religious, too serious, too catholic, too concerned with sin, too willing to give things up, too willing to choose God over whatever future everybody else imagined for them. there is apparently some invisible boundary where Christianity stops being respectable and begins making people uncomfortable, and Christians are expected to approach that boundary carefully enough that nobody suspects we actually believe any of this with our whole lives
Let them be uncomfortable
The Apostles did not receive instructions to make the Gospel indistinguishable from the world around them. Christ did not promise that obedience would preserve everybody's approval, He warned that division could reach even into households, then immediately said that whoever loves father or mother more than Him is not worthy of Him. That does not mean Christians should manufacture arguments, enjoy offending people or interpret every concerned relative as an enemy of God, it means peace cannot be purchased by putting somebody else's approval above Christ.
There are times when people will dislike the direction you are going precisely because they cannot go there with you, and there are times when somebody will call your obedience foolish because accepting it would require them to reconsider something in themselves. Pray for them anyway. Be patient anyway. Refuse hatred, refuse pride, refuse the satisfaction of imagining yourself better than them, but keep walking.
We should be much more frightened of betraying truth to remain recognizable than of becoming strange to people who preferred us another way. The world knew exactly what to do with Christ when He refused to become what it wanted, and a servant should not expect to be greater than his master.
If following God costs approval, then approval was the cheaper option.
If truth leaves you standing apart from the crowd, stand there.
We were never commanded to belong to the world.
Deo Gratias.