Won't it hurt?

Several years ago our church was conducting a service at a nursing home. There was a rather elderly gentleman there who appeared to be somewhat developmental disabled (we used to use the word retarded). He raised his hand at the invitation and wanted to talk to someone about getting saved. The gentleman who does our service took his Bible over and sat down and talked to this guy for a considerable length of time. Finally, Mr. K. came to me and said that the man wanted to get saved but every time he was asked to pray, he would say no. I went over to talk with him and when he resisted praying, I realized that I had used the expression "ask Jesus to come into your heart". I asked him why he didn't want to do that and he said, "Won't it hurt?" I reworded it and he went ahead and prayed. Bless his heart! He wanted Jesus in his heart but he didn't want him to come busting into his heart! It certainly caused me to be more aware of things being taken so literally.