Servicing the sale - a sequel

This is the sequel to Ask for the sale. Oftentimes the sales is made but there is no follow up, there is no servicing the sale. When someone buys a product they expect service if something goes wrong. Warranty, we call it, and the warranty has to be honored. And, so, with Ask for the sale in converting folks to Christianity there has to be the follow up to keep the conversion converted. If not, after the new wears off, at least outwardly there is reason to believe it was not worth the trip. So, ChuckOonreligion needs to address this - servicing the sale.

If you look at it, in the New Testament - that dealing with Jesus Christ and converting to Him, a relatively small portion is used to show the conversions. Most is dedicated to servicing the sale. For example Paul in Corinth (Acts 18) after being driven off from the Jewish synagogues in an attempt to convert to Jesus the Christ, went to the people, where many were said to have heard, believed, and were baptized. Well, two books, 1st and 2nd Corinthians are devoted by Paul to service the sale - and there were lots of corrections that had to be made. Paul was servicing the sale. The same was true with other books by Paul, following up to the recorded visits found in Acts.

In the Ask for the sale perhaps we did not go far enough to say that additional teaching and mentoring has to take place. When a person turns to Christ he or she is leaving a former way of life that will in a short time begin to call the person back. Without the help of continued teaching and encouragement many will fall back to their former ways. I mentioned before how that after the gospel meetings the churches tended to just keep house until the next evolution of a gospel meeting. Maybe the keeping house was not too good. Maybe the servicing the sale was not as good as it should been. I do recall many times the former baptized coming forward asking prayers, repenting - which is a good thing. But it would have been better if there had not been the need to bring people back so much.

We need to do a better job of servicing the sale. The example of it is certainly all the New Testament books following Acts written by Paul, Peter, John and James. That said, we do believe that God takes a part in offering grace that we humans would never be able to offer.

So, this is indeed the sequel. We are still trying to get it right. It is part of the story that must be considered among at least leaders in the churches. In 1 Peter 5, Peter admonished the elders to be shepherds of God's flock that was under their care. That is part of serving the sale, certainly.