The Whole Load?
| salesman | sales manager | sales trainer | spring planting | cow | cows | Pastor | young pastor |
I have a little story for you which I developed many years ago.
You
need to know that I worked for a livestock Feed
Manufacture Company during the 1970's
and 80s.
I started out as a Rookie Sales man, was promoted up to a
District
Manager, promoted again to a Territory Manager,
and promoted again to a Sales Trainer
and finally, the Sales
Manager.
When I had the sales force in for training, which I did on a
regular
base for the whole sales force, I developed the
training with an attention getter with
humor and the main
point as part of it. Which would go something like this?
I once had the opportunity when I was in College, to introduce
a
young man that I knew to pastor at a small country church
that wanted a couple of weeks of
and needed someone to
handle the duties while he was gone.
So this young man and the Pastor made an arrangement that he
would
come out on Wednesday evening and present a sermon
so the Pastor could evaluate
his ability.
Well, it was spring time and most of the congregation was
farmers
and they were busy with Spring Planting. And would
you know it, just one older
couple showed up!
The pastor told him to go ahead with his message any way which
he
did. So the young student Pastor started out pretty nervous,
but got some confidence
going. The couple seemed pretty
interested and that gave the young man more
encouragement.
Now the more interested the couple showed, the more enthused
the
young man became and he got to preaching faster and he
went on, and on, and
The rest of the story!