Bible Salesmen
A pastor concluded that his church was getting into very
serious financial troubles. While checking the church storeroom, he discovered
several cartons
of new bibles that had never been opened and distributed.
So at his Sunday sermon, he asked for three volunteers from the congregation who
would be willing to sell the bibles door-to-door for $10 each to raise the
desperately needed money for the church.
Jack, Paul and Louie all raised their hands to volunteer for the task.
The minister knew that Jack and Paul earned their living as salesmen and were
likely capable of selling some bibles. But
he had serious doubts about Louie who was a local farmer, who had always kept
to himself because he was embarrassed by his speech impediment. Poor Louis stuttered badly. But, NOT WANTING
TO discourage Louis, the minister decided to let him try anyway.
He sent the three of them away with the back seat of their cars stacked with bibles.
He asked them to meet with him and report the results of their door-to-door
selling efforts the following Sunday.
Anxious to find out how successful they were, the minister immediately asked Jack,
"Well, Jack, how did you make out selling our bibles last week?"
Proudly handing the reverend an envelope, Jack replied, "Using my sales prowess,
I was able to sell 20 bibles, and here's the $200 I collected on behalf of the
church."
"Fine job, Jack!" The minister said, vigorously shaking his hand.
"You are indeed a fine salesman and the Church is indebted to you."
Turning to Paul, "And Paul, how many bibles did you sell for the Church
last week?"
Paul, smiling and sticking out his chest confidently replied, "I am a professional
salesman. I sold 28 bibles on behalf of the church, and here's $280 I
collected."
The minister responded, "That's absolutely splendid, Paul. You are truly a
professional salesman and the church is indebted to you."
Apprehensively, the minister turned to Louie and said, "And Louie, did you
manage to sell any bibles last week?" Louie silently offered the minister
a large envelope.
The minister opened it and counted the contents. "What is this?" the minister
exclaimed. "Louie, there's $3200 in here! Are you suggesting that you sold
320 bibles for the church, door to door, in just one week?"
Louie just nodded. That's impossible!" both Jack and Paul said in unison. "We are professional salesmen, yet you
claim to have sold 16 times as many bibles as we could."
"Yes, this does seem unlikely," the minister agreed. "I think
you'd better explain how you managed to accomplish this, Louie."
Louie shrugged. "I-I-I re-re-really do-do-don't kn-kn-know
f-f-f-for sh-sh-sh-sure," he stammered.
Impatiently, Peter interrupted. "For crying out loud, Louie, just tell us what
you said to them when they answered the door!"
"A-a-a-all I-I-I s-s-said wa-wa-was," Louis
replied, "W-w-w-w-wouldy-y-y-you l-l-l-l-l-like
t-t-to b-b-b-buy th-th-th-this b-b-b-b-bible F-f-for
t-t-ten b-b-b-bucks ---o-o-o-or--- wo-wo-would yo-you j-j-j-just l-like m-m-me t-t-to st-st-stand
h-h-here and r-r-r-r-r-read it t-to y-y-you??"
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