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[Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Once when I was shopping in one of our local lumber yards, I noticed a sign which read:<\/span><\/p>\n 81%<\/strong> OF YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL BE LOST TEN YEARS FROM NOW<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Under this startling headline the following statistics were given:<\/span><\/p>\n The Lord\u2019s business also loses customers for all those reasons. Death is steadily calling men and women into eternity. In our very mobile society, the local church is constantly affected by members moving.\u201d Those with no real conviction concerning the importance of doctrinal purity and of \u201cmaking all things according to the pattern,\u201d are being led into denominationalism. Others, finding that following Christ requires daily sacrificial, self-denying cross-bearing, will become \u201cdissatisfied with the product\u201d and will drop out.<\/span><\/p>\n Interestingly, the great loss to business comes at the point of \u201cemployee indifference.\u201d Have you ever walked into a store and felt that the salesman or manager would rather not be bothered? Right here is where most customer casualties occur. If there is any lesson a businessman should consider elementary, it should be to make the customer want<\/strong> to return.<\/span><\/p>\n Christians are the Lord\u2019s \u201csalesmen.\u201d We would do well to look into the matter of how we treat our visitors in the classroom and the assembly. Do we expect the announcer or the preacher to do all the greeting or do we personally and warmly seek out visitors? As we filter out into week-day tasks, do we drive off potential \u201ccustomers\u201d by our indifference? Do we ever speak a word for Christ and the church? Or worse, when we speak and act, do we forget who we represent? (Many a soul has been soured on the truth by hot-headed, razor-tongued, or worldly-walking members of the church.) Indifference simply means, \u201cI don\u2019t care.\u201d We must <\/strong>care!<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for, and it was published in the November, 13, 1975, edition of the Granbury Gospel, <\/em>weekly bulletin of the Granbury Church of Christ, Granbury, Texas, of which I was editor.<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong> From thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 0[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once when I was shopping in one of our local lumber yards, I noticed a sign which read: 81% OF YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL BE LOST TEN YEARS FROM NOW Under…<\/p>\n\n