For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Otherwise after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all the onlookers will begin to make fun of him, saying, 'this man started to build and wasn't able to finish.' Luke 14:28-30
Being a Christian is no walk in the park. Laying down our own lives to follow Christ requires grit and determination as we have an enemy who will throw all he has at us to dissuade us from our purpose.
We are so keen to get numbers that we fail to instruct on value so that cost is diminished.
A lesson of sales is that if a client can perceive how valuable the service is then they will be willing to pay the price.
A client who fully understands value and the precious nature of a commodity then price is not an issue. Price only becomes an issue when value is not explained or fully appreciated.
The same applies in preaching the gospel. We are not selling a membership to a club, a set of saucepans or encyclopaedias we are selling a relationship with the living God, a God of power and might, a God of miracles.
This relationship can be likened to a pearl of great price that a man discovers and then goes and sells all he has to be able to buy the pearl.
A relationship with the king of kings is the most valuable thing in the whole world.
I have a brother who is advising all he knows, to sell all and buy gold. He is not a financial planner but he believes in his mantra. My brother is ardent in his belief. He has no experience in gold but he has heard something that makes him believe and so he is being a 'gold evangelist'.
If my brother can believe in his opinion so can we believe in the gospel and share if just as ardently. Amen!
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