As posted at Echo Faith a 9Rules member site.

Christianity For Sale

God does not want salesmen. Salesmen don’t care about the people they’re selling to. They don’t want to know their life-stories, the struggles they’ve dealt with, the passions they’ve pursued, the dreams they’ve had.

So many times in life I’ve felt like I’d been hired to be God’s salesman. It was my job, in all situations and conversations, to find that angle or loophole to slip God into the conversation and convert, convert, convert!

The problem with this mentality is when you’re busy looking for a loophole, you miss the conversation. It’s like a quarrelsome couple in a fight. When one talks, the other spends all their energy trying to think of a comeback and how to defend their position instead of actually listening to what the other side has to say.

We need to lose the briefcase and suit and just be real people. There’s no need to ‘sell your point’ as long as you live it. Don’t go out of the way to hide your christianity from conversation but don’t shout it out either. Being christian should be as much a part of us as being a graphic designer or being a husband, a sister, an artist, a construction worker, a skater, a girlfriend, or whatever combination of things makes you who you are.