{"id":1977,"date":"2016-03-09T21:30:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2016-03-09T21:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:30:57","slug":"the-sales-of-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/the-sales-of-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sales of Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sweet used a great example from his life to demonstrate different sales personality. He talked about his &#8220;sales&#8221; role in ministry. For some of us this is a very weird picture. Why would you need or even use sales skills in this setting? Reading the gospels we see a mighty decree from Jesus calling his Apostles(followers) to &#8220;Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel&#8221; Mark 16:15. The gospel is the handbook for an effective sales pitch. We are to represent Christ just as a salesman represents his company. Unlike the iconic greasy salesman we as advocates to the kingdom must present with honesty courage and faith in our &#8220;product&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Professor sweet discussed using techniques like listening and asking key questions to push individuals to Christ. This is a great example of using inference skills to better understand the individual you are working with.<\/p>\n<p>Sales can be applicable to used in every aspect our lives and\u00a0I am learning that developing my sales skills will also develop my walk with Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sweet used a great example from his life to demonstrate different sales personality. He talked about his &#8220;sales&#8221; role in ministry. For some of us this is a very weird picture. Why would you need or even use sales skills in this setting? Reading the gospels we see a mighty decree from Jesus calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}