As many of you know I am leaving the Navy very soon. So this week I was sent on a career transition workshop. Basically it was a course aimed to help me write my CV, get an interview and ultimatly get a job.
The main thing that came across over the course was the fact we need to sell ourselves. On the CV, in the interview, everywhere; when you are looking for a job its all about selling yourself to the employer.
In the forces in general, we are not to good at this. We do what we do and just get on with it, it seems to be a trend across the forces that we don't really apreciate the transferrable skills we have.
It seems in the civilian world people are a lot better at selling themselves and findingways of telling employers about the skills they have which the employer wants.
This all got me thinking. How much do we as Christians sell Jesus? Do we sell him at all?
I know there are times and situations when I struggle to tell people about Jesus. Times when I really struggle, and if I am honest I am afraid to; so don't. But I know this isn't right. I know there are times whenI should have told people about my faith, or times when people have even asked me about it and I have backed out.
So I guess i'm not always that great about telling people about Jesus. But then, I know that, have realised it and so can work on it.
But I also don't think "selling Jesus" is the correct term. We don't need to sell Jesus. What we need to do is show people Jesus and the changes he can make in our lives. Thats the biggest advertisment ever! Showing the light of Jesus through our actions and what we say and do, is in my eyes the best way to show people about Jesus. However we do need to back this up with telling people why we act the way we do and tell people the Changes the Holy Spirit has helped us to make.
The Sailing Salvationist.
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