The Apple Experience

The Apple Experience

Friday, February 10, 2012

10:29 AM

The mission statement of our church is "We exist so people get it!".  How come some people "get it" and some don't, ever ponder that?  Take a look at these verses.

Luke 16:27-31(NKJV)

27“Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 

28for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 

29Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 

30And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 

31But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’”

In this passage Jesus himself tells us that it'll take more than some guy rising from the dead to convince some people.  So what makes the difference for most.  I think it comes down to the Apple Experience.  Not as in Adam and Eve but as in Apple the company.

Here's what I mean.  At the end of last year I switched form an iPhone to an Android based phone.  After two weeks I went back to and asked for a do over and went back to an Apple iPhone.  The Android phone just wasn't the same as the Apple experience.  It's not that the Android phone was bad or anything, it just wasn’t the Apple experience. 

What the scripture above says to me is that if we approach evangelism in a logical way by pointing to the scriptures etc.  It is easy for people to disbelieve it.  On the other hand if we can get them the "God experience" it's a piece of cake.  Why the difference?  Because the scriptural stuff is external and the "God experience" is internal.  Anyone who has "experienced God" vs. just knowing Him knows what I mean.

 So go out and share the "God experience" with others so that they will get it!  :)