Comments on: The Reverend Steve Jobs

By: What if Steve Jobs was your church leader? « Chris Kidd - applied youth ministry

Sat, 03 May 2008 19:50:36 +0000

[...] Posted on May 3, 2008 by Chris Great post about how church would look like if The Reverend Steve Jobs was the church [...]

By: Chris Kidd

Chris Kidd — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:44:41 +0000

Awesome post!

By: Lincoln

Lincoln — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:04:47 +0000

Entertaining but facile. I think you mean “what if Apple marketing redesigned the church?”.

There’s a lot the church can learn from Steve Jobs, sadly:

“My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.” Steve Jobs.

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the [executive team] could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.” Steve Jobs

“Apple is a $30 billion company, yet we’ve got less than 30 major products. I don’t know if that’s ever been done before. Certainly the great consumer electronics companies of the past had thousands of products. We tend to focus much more. People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done.” Steve Jobs

By: Derek Schwab » Blog Archive » The iBible

Derek Schwab » Blog Archive » The iBible — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:58:22 +0000

[...] came across this posted in response to the Steve Jobs post at swerve.lifechurch.tv and had to post it [...]

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:38:53 +0000

What about Pastor Bill Gates/Microsoft church???

Oh wait, we already do that. :-)

By: Antwon Davis

Antwon Davis — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:32:18 +0000

Pastor Jobs would have a special service once a week for Mac users where they would have access to insider info and downloads on all of the premiere updates of the church, creating a competitive environment between Mac and PC users in the church. Eventually, all PC users would be compelled to leave to join Pastor Gates church, making Pastor Jobs’ “Apple Community Church” 100% Mac users. Then Jobs would repeat his filtering process to filter out all non-iPhone and Macbook Air users until all of his congregation are Apple Freaks. In other words, his church would die in a week (lol).

By: Eric Bramlett

Eric Bramlett — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:29:01 +0000

Don’t forget “Please turn to your iBible…” Don’t have one? See the ad for it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=c8wRIcv6esY

By: AppleChurch.tv « MTthoughts

AppleChurch.tv « MTthoughts — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:24:12 +0000

[...] friend Bobby Gruenewald from LifeChurch.tv blogged about what it would be like if Apple started a church. Which begs the question…if [...]

By: Jim Martin

Jim Martin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:22:14 +0000

How about the PC burning events where all the reformed PC users would pile up their Pentiums and set them on fire - I’m sure some PC’s would hiss and spit as they melted into a molten pile.

By: Matt King

Matt King — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:36:14 +0000

The iJesus would scratch easily and break frequently. Unfortunately it wouldn’t have any user serviceable parts so even if the battery quits working it would need to be sent back to pastor Steve for a healing.

I do like Bert’s comment that cold and sterile works to sell electronics, but not for something that is supposed to be warm, like coffee or Jesus.

By: hernse

hernse — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:26:41 +0000

We would all be sitting on iChairs. They come standard with a touch screen that is loaded with the iBible. So it’s easy to look up scripture, download the notes from the sermon, and even sync with your iPod/iPhone

By: tony

tony — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:22:51 +0000

and please don’t tell me that LC is looking at marketing Jesus the i-stevie way!

By: tony

tony — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:21:03 +0000

If you don’t like the current Jesus, we’ll just engineer a new one for you, market it, and sell it to you - but every Jesus would have a fairly short product life cycle and after the early adopters bought it, we need to move on to the 3.298357843054852 version.

got news for the tech heads - the Jesus I know don’t need a frikken’ iphoney thingy

so the challenge to stevie would be - how do you market a product that is infinitely ahead of you in every way!

By: Adam Gregory

Adam Gregory — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:57:28 +0000

He would anger and pester the neighboring Pastor Gates, who would then, in an attempt to play catch up, offer the cheaper and lower quality “Vista Jesus”, which would suck people in under the guise of a better “Jesus” and then leave them wishing they had stuck with “JesusXP”.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:43:25 +0000

There would be no imperfections, since no system or person could get a virus or bug.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:22:20 +0000

Great post… And I’m sure we would find apples in the cafe.. (with a bite out of them of course) and there would be those standing outside saying… “I can hack into this service in less than 2 minutes…”

By: nathan

nathan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:05:08 +0000

Man, Bill just beat me to it.

At the end Pastor Jobs says, ‘Thanks for coming everyone,’ as he walks off stage.
There is silence on the stage, and no one in the auditorium moves.
Then Pastor Jobs comes back, ‘Oh, and one more thing…’ and continues preaching the word and envisioning the people for the future.

This was fun. Thanks!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:51:05 +0000

“And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men.”

By: Bill Glick

Bill Glick — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:00:24 +0000

Pastor Jobs would end with, “And one more thing… the iJesus is a completely free upgrade and can be yours today.” Then, he’d hand us over to a closing song from worship leader John Mayer. That’d rock!

By: Kevin Morey

Kevin Morey — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:21:03 +0000

Don’t forget iToons for the kids!