You must truly love people and the reason I bring this up is because I talked about
at the beginning being friendly, big smile, being nice to people and throughout all the
points that I've just given you, a theme of it is be nice, be friendly,
be kind, be polite. But I'll tell you what makes this easy. If you actually love people,
then being nice and friendly and kind and loving and smiling comes naturally because you're being
real. It's actually coming from the heart. Now, if you do not love people, if you don't have
a warm heart and love in your heart as you do this, then it might be a struggle to try to
smile and be friendly. And people can kind of read you, even subconsciously through your body
language and the way that you're acting that if you don't like them or if you don't care about
them or if you're just being robotic and you're not really interested in them. But when you
truly love people from your heart, that comes across and people will sense that and they'll
be much more likely to listen to you. You say, well, how can I love someone that I just met?
Well, you know, Jesus loved people that he just met because if you remember the Rich
Young Ruler, it says Jesus, beholding him, loved him. That guy was an idiot. He was prideful.
He was not saved. He wasn't going to get saved. He was self-righteous. But yet,
in spite of his sins, Jesus loved him. Jesus, beholding him, loved him. And you know what,
when that door opens and you don't know who's going to be behind that door,
but when that door opens, you've got to love that person. You got to want that person to
be saved, not so that you can get someone saved, but so that that person goes to heaven
because you love that person and you're there to help them. Now you say, what if it's a
horrible reprobate? Here's the thing. You got to give people the benefit of the doubt.
You know, they're innocent until proven guilty. You know, maybe it is the most horrible
person ever and the worst reprobate spawn of Satan that opens that door. Sometimes that's going
to happen. But you know what, you should go into it though, assuming that this person
is ready to receive the Gospel and let them prove you wrong. And I don't care if they're
covered in tattoos and they have more piercings than if they fell out of a fishing tackle box
and if they are all, you know, goth out and whatever. You know what? So what?
So what? You know, can't you love people that are different than you?
And we shouldn't just assume that someone is a horrible reprobate just because they look
strange because we're living in some strange days where even people that are normal people,
even nice people sometimes look like freaks. And we got to be able to see past that because
a lot, you know, we don't want to just jump to conclusions. Now if somebody comes to the
door in drag or something, it's like, all right, I'm out of here. You know what I mean?
I'm going to get out of there as fast as I can if some dude is in drag. That's not what I'm
talking about. I'm just talking, but look, there are a lot of guys today that are just effeminate
and they're not even queer. They're just effeminate. That's the society we're living in
folks. Welcome to 2018 America. And there, so we don't want to just assume the worst
and jump to conclusions. Give people the benefit of the doubt, you know, and go into it with
love in your heart for that person. And you have to truly care. You can't fake it.
You've got to actually love people and actually care. And that's one of the best
soul-winning tips. Love people, care about people. That's going to make you do a good job,
be thorough. Why? Because you actually care because you actually love that person.
And you know, people can feel it when you love them.
They can also feel it when you're just going through the motions.