Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Cell Phone on our Mind- and church planting

The next 2-4 weeks will provide a fish bowl for us all to observe and learn something that only happens every few years.

The iPhone buzz apple is creating will benefit all cell phone companies. Big time. The iPhone has put cell phones in the minds of people. Many will not buy an iPhone, but a lot will buy a blackberry, a treo, or another new cell phone.

iPhone means business for everyone in the cell phone business, because people are thinking about cell phones. They've had a date in the mind.

June 29th.

Some are on the fence about a first generation phone.
Some are on the fence about an Apple phone.
Some are on the fence about AT&T/Cingular.
Some are on the fence about the price.

There are a lot of people on the fence and they are waiting.

They are waiting to see if people like their iPhone.
How the battery life is.
Some will want to touch and use one before buying.

Other will not buy an iPhone, but they will buy a cell phone.
The iPhone is an opportunity for all cell phone companies. I'm not sure all the cell companies are ready. If you are Sprint, June 29th, you should double your staff. Be ready, because they will be coming.

This happened 10 years ago when Krispy Kreme came to Tulsa. Opening week, you couldn't find a donut in any store anywhere in tulsa. People had donuts on their mind.

There is a similar phenomenon that occurs with church planting. New churches create energy and they get people thinking about church who haven't been in a long time or ever.

They might attend the new church, but land somewhere else.

This is why most churches should embrace church planting in their communities and not see them as competition. Church plants get people thinking about being a part of a church and it's an opportunity for every church in the area. Sadly, few churches are ready.

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3 Comments:

Blogger marko said...

we just got an email from harpercollins cto (harper is our parent company's parent company) saying the iphone will not support business email systems, so we can't consider it at this point. bummed, i am.

7:41 PM EDT  
Blogger Topherspoon said...

This is brillant. I'm going to use this. Would you like to invest in our church plant? We're alot like the iphone, have you heard of it?

2:19 AM EDT  
Blogger Bill Reichart said...

I am definitely drooling on the sidelines over this iPhone. But then I read Mike Metzger's words on this, and it brought me down to earth. He is a fellow from the Clapham Institute.

I posted them here:
"What might the iPhone undo?"
http://provocativechurch.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-iphone-may-undo.html

I wish I had written this, it is so tight!

I think that Mike's thoughts present us even bigger questions to ask.

12:18 PM EDT  

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