There are serious and up-front disadvantages to becoming a Christian here and now, in this place and time.
Being a Christian will get in the way of your sex life and sexuality, your career prospects; and your desire to attain high status and wield power.
That's a pretty comprehensive set of disadvantages!
So what do you get in return, as it were...
A Great Deal, is the answer.
You get meaning, truth and purpose.
You get sure and certain hope; in resurrected life everlasting.
You get significance in what you do in this life; your experiences and what you learn from them have permanent reality; that means your love is permanent, your creation (as it is conceived in your thought - not merely as implemented materially) is permanent.
Your life will have a reason; that means your specific actual life that you are in here-and-now; this will be known as something specifically For You; something from-which you can and should be getting the experiences that you personally most need; and that starts immediately and never stops.
Awareness of your own sin is painful - but is not all bad! It is all and completely fully repent-able, and the flip-side is to know that you have an essence of divinity, and this can (and should) be developed to greater and greater god-like-ness; again starting straight way.
So Christianity is not all doom, gloom and misery - far from it.
