#ThrowbackPost: Fear Sells...
Fear sells.
But what happens to your product when fear is overcome?
People stop buying, your subscribers refuse to renew their subscription and
you’re left to start strategizing all over again.
Salvation is being sold cheaply, just like this ofili's drawing depicts....
Source: Ofilispeaks.com |
Sometimes we end up sounding like desperate insurance sales
men, saying just about anything to get people buying our plans, to get a bonus
from the CEO of Salvation & co.
We’re selling salvation based on fear… that’s a very shaky
foundation. What happens when people get over the initial fear of ‘we’re in the end times’ and ‘hell is real’?
Sometimes it takes just an
extra ten-second stare at Bimpe to drive the fear of hell out of a man.
It takes waiting for two years and still seeing the world as it is to
drive the fear of 'the world is coming to an end' out of a person.
What happens when a man gets saved because he’s sick and
scared of dying and of the unknown? He recovers and soon enough he’s
back to
the clubs and the skirt chasing. He can always subscribe to the
insurance plan
when there is need. Or whenever he goes to the salvation fair in the
place of a church to hear the pastor preach fire and brimstone, or
whenever he stumbles
upon one of the numerous blogs to hear one sermon or the other.
So maybe fear pulls you through the door… but it shouldn’t
take long for us to feel the love that fills us with a want
for God based on love and not of fear of the unknown. Some were saved
through fear, others come in through gratitude… it doesn’t matter what
brought you in, what matters is sustaining
yourself, and the best way is through building a foundation of love. You
can only
begin to appreciate salvation when you fall in love with Jesus, when you
realize how deep His love for you is. When you get lost in His love.
In love, you give out of love, not out of fear that God wouldn’t
bless you or He'd be mad at you for not dropping an offering…
”don’t use fear in scaring your
clients into spending money” Okechukwu Ofili… how laziness saved my life.
In Love, you shun sin, because you don't want to hurt the one you love
and not because you're scared of hell. We've got philosophers
everywhere, all it takes is a day on twitter to sway your belief in
heaven and hell. But love keeps you grounded, love doesn't sway you when
the trumpet fails to sound tomorrow or next. Love doesn't put you off
worshiping with other believers because you hear what one or two pastors
do under the cover of church. Fear makes it easy and gives reason to
keep drifting away from the faith.
I shouldn’t serve God because I am scared of hell. My love
for Jesus should scare the hell out of me. I should serve God because I feel
his love, because He loved me first, even in my unlovable phase.
Are you driven by fear or by love?
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