Sales and Salesmen

There is a sales technique that is commonly employed by sales people that is a huge key to their business.

They have learned that if you give something to someone that it is in human nature for the receiver to want to give something back.

Hence you will find drug reps. taking doctors to dinner or taking them on free trips or bringing lunch into your clinic. All in the hopes that you will give them a drug order and they can meet the quota that their corporation has placed upon them.

Thats concept works in Christianity as well. Let’s say you identify an individual that you would like to convert to Jesus Christ. What should you do?

First of all one of the greatest testimonies about Jesus Christ is how he has changed your life. They don’t necessarily need to hear that but they do need to see it. How do they see that? By you sharing your life with them so that you can create a seam and insert into that seam the good news of salvation.

That might mean you invite them into your home, you help them with whatever they need. If you hear they have illness in their family you pray with them. You friend them on Facebook. You remember their birthdays, etc. etc. etc.

Like the salesman you are giving up something… you are giving up yourself (just like Jesus did) so that they by human nature will want to give something back. It’s simple human chemistry and it is entirely scriptural.

Sacrifice yourself for the benefit of others. Once their eyes are opened they will thank you for that great gift