OK... I Have an Agenda

I was listening to Toby Mac's new album "Portable Sounds" on the way to work this morning and in one of his songs he uses the highly offensive word - Jesus. It got me thinking for some reason why do some people accept Jesus, and some people reject Jesus. It's not exactly a new question, but in light of my recent obsession with how should one evangelize, I've had some new thoughts about it. As I mentioned in my blog yesterday, I think that I have been guilty of trying to push Jesus on people -- as if I push hard enough they will have to believe. I'm sure part of this comes from me being wired by God as an "influencer" -- I like to influence people -- I'm in sales, etc. But like sales, good sales people should be asking more questions vs. dumping tons of info about their product or service. I think we as Christians would be more loving if we remembered that. Of course some may say that "you have an agenda" even if you're asking questions to try and get people to follow Jesus but hey -- I'm guilty as charged. As a Christian, that's my marching orders (i.e. the "Great Commission"). Honestly, if I found out that someone had an agenda to share Good News with me -- life saving, life altering, purpose giving, hope of heaven news with me, I wouldn't be offended -- that is, unless they were sharing it in a pushy, I don't care what you think, "accept this or you're going to hell" way!