Title: Open or Closed (4)
Series: On a Mission-The Life of Paul
Author: Patrick Edwards
Text: Acts 17:1-18:17
Introduction
What's the worst job you ever had? I've got quite a few I've disliked, but all were jobs I took to help move me forward in my ultimate goals. Like in college I was a barista at a Starbucks directly across the street from the grounds at the University of Virginia. That combination of hung-over students needing caffeine with professors running late, it was a high stress job! I spent a couple of summers framing houses. Really hot and exhausting work. I mean I was in really good shape and about as tan as this freckly, Celtic skin can get, but it was a job that enabled me to buy a car. The worst job I ever had, though, was a used-car salesman.
Yes, that's right. Your pastor was a used-car salesman. Talk about a Damascus Road conversion story! Following college, I needed to work for a year and save as much money as I could to pay for my masters' degree and so selling cars is about all a history major from UVA could get hired to do. Not a terrible job, but for an introvert who doesn't love confrontation and isn't comfortable being forward, let's just say it wasn't the best job to suit my temperament.
But being in those kinds of extremely uncomfortable scenarios is when we tend to grow the most. I really did learn a lot from selling cars and one of those things was how to figure out somebody's biggest objection. Like I worked for a great dealership, CarMax. Very trustworthy, honest, somebody would come in needing a car, wanting specific things, and you'd help them find that. You do your best to serve the customer. But pulling the trigger on buying a car can be tough. It's a big purchase, big decision. I'd often find myself in a situation where I'd been with a customer for over an hour, finding the right car, driving it, looking at it, thinking about it, looking at finance options, all of it. But eventually comes the moment of truth. Y ...
Series: On a Mission-The Life of Paul
Author: Patrick Edwards
Text: Acts 17:1-18:17
Introduction
What's the worst job you ever had? I've got quite a few I've disliked, but all were jobs I took to help move me forward in my ultimate goals. Like in college I was a barista at a Starbucks directly across the street from the grounds at the University of Virginia. That combination of hung-over students needing caffeine with professors running late, it was a high stress job! I spent a couple of summers framing houses. Really hot and exhausting work. I mean I was in really good shape and about as tan as this freckly, Celtic skin can get, but it was a job that enabled me to buy a car. The worst job I ever had, though, was a used-car salesman.
Yes, that's right. Your pastor was a used-car salesman. Talk about a Damascus Road conversion story! Following college, I needed to work for a year and save as much money as I could to pay for my masters' degree and so selling cars is about all a history major from UVA could get hired to do. Not a terrible job, but for an introvert who doesn't love confrontation and isn't comfortable being forward, let's just say it wasn't the best job to suit my temperament.
But being in those kinds of extremely uncomfortable scenarios is when we tend to grow the most. I really did learn a lot from selling cars and one of those things was how to figure out somebody's biggest objection. Like I worked for a great dealership, CarMax. Very trustworthy, honest, somebody would come in needing a car, wanting specific things, and you'd help them find that. You do your best to serve the customer. But pulling the trigger on buying a car can be tough. It's a big purchase, big decision. I'd often find myself in a situation where I'd been with a customer for over an hour, finding the right car, driving it, looking at it, thinking about it, looking at finance options, all of it. But eventually comes the moment of truth. Y ...
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