What Are You Doing?

What are you doing? Are your actions that you're performing reaching out to people or pushing them further away from God? 

Sometimes, I find myself so full of the Holy Spirit that I just want that person that I'm preaching to, to get to know the Lord and what he has done for them. I get all these Christian songs, that relate to their past life that haunt them, that tell them how to find peace in their troubled times or what to do about their hauntings. I get all these verses and want them to read them, I talk about how to solve their problems. I expect them to listen to me and only want them to listen to what I have to say because I feel that it is important for them. All I am thinking then is that I could truly save that person's life. When that person wants to tell me something or show me a song they really like that's not my style or want me to read a page or a paragraph of their essay or a book, sometimes I don't feel interested, and I show it too. I show that I really don't want to listen to that song or read that paragraph. But, what I am doing is showing them that I want them to listen to me but I won't listen to them. That causes them to feel distant and not as close to me as they were before. 

If we, as Christians  want to reach to others, we also have to be listeners and be open ears, If we teach others about the LORD and talk to them about it, then we should be willing to listen to them talk about their god or what they believe in, we do not have to believe in the same thing as them, but we have to listen. If you're willing to give them a couple of your favourite Christian songs to listen to, then whatever song they want you to listen to, you should listen to. You may not like it, but they might not like yours either.