Comments on: The Apple Store Experience http://nathandiehl.com/2008/12/05/the-apple-store-experience/ Devoted Husband, Daddy and Follower of Jesus Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: iZZy http://nathandiehl.com/2008/12/05/the-apple-store-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-2176 iZZy Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:18:39 +0000 http://nathandiehl.com/?p=783#comment-2176 Stumbled across this today from your facebook posting. BTW i'm going to the DR in May! But my comment is that i feel i understand what your saying about your experience at the store and that it was a possitive intereaction, but i also would say beware. I mean the last thing people of our generation want from religion is to be sold something. So just keep that in mind as you try to take your experience and use it to make the church a more welcome place. Stumbled across this today from your facebook posting. BTW i’m going to the DR in May! But my comment is that i feel i understand what your saying about your experience at the store and that it was a possitive intereaction, but i also would say beware. I mean the last thing people of our generation want from religion is to be sold something. So just keep that in mind as you try to take your experience and use it to make the church a more welcome place.

]]> By: Pastor Diehl http://nathandiehl.com/2008/12/05/the-apple-store-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-2157 Pastor Diehl Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:06:02 +0000 http://nathandiehl.com/?p=783#comment-2157 I think the Apple Store salesman made you feel like you were a friend, not a customer. He made it appear that he was not in it to make commission or make a sale. He made you feel like he cared more about you than himself. It may have been as fake as a $3 bill, but he made you feel like it was genuine. The connection with the church is that we often don't make strangers feel like they're important when we ignore them. We make them feel that its all about us and not all about them. Why should they want to come back? Why not shop at the Apple Store down the street, or worse yet, at the Dell Shoppe! I think we all ought to adopt the attitude of the Apple Store Guy. I think the Apple Store salesman made you feel like you were a friend, not a customer. He made it appear that he was not in it to make commission or make a sale. He made you feel like he cared more about you than himself. It may have been as fake as a $3 bill, but he made you feel like it was genuine.

The connection with the church is that we often don’t make strangers feel like they’re important when we ignore them. We make them feel that its all about us and not all about them. Why should they want to come back? Why not shop at the Apple Store down the street, or worse yet, at the Dell Shoppe!

I think we all ought to adopt the attitude of the Apple Store Guy.

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