I saw on twitter this morning from @ksegall (via @sarahbjordan) that “Steve Jobs used a Toshiba when in his own office”.
I have no idea whether that is true or not, but the statement says much about Jobs and his persistence with technology. I don’t even know why he used a Toshiba instead of an Apple—but I am going to speculate that one reason that he used a PC over a Mac was to be able to see the short comings and improve the life of the users of Apple products. Using a PC would give him an out of the box approach to building his product. It would also protect him from enjoying the wonderful machine he had built and become comfortable thinking that he had finished the task.
This lesson has much to teach us as Christian. No, I am not suggesting that we should so immerse ourselves into the culture that we ignore Biblical principal. But, I do suggest that we think out of the box for way that the world is falling short on what it offers to people.
My pastor here in Columbia, SC, Dick Lincoln, said a couple of weeks ago that struck a cord with me regarding this issue. He said;
“Every civic group cares for people and does good things for people. We (Christians) do one thing different that all of the rest, and that is to share Jesus”
That seems obvious, but we forget it so often. We should share Jesus at every opportunity. Always.
We need to think out of the box in ways to communicate this message to a hurting and dying world. We need to see the practice of “using a Toshiba” as a way for us to think about what is missing in our ability to communicate and we can not get so comfortable with our current model of doing church that we think we have figured it all out.
The culture we operate in is always changing—we need to be the innovators, not the reactors.
Chaplain Andrews says
Thank you for your comment–I read the tweet in passing–pure speculation to why 🙂 thank you again for stopping by!
Azzam says
Good guess, but I was at the event when he mentioned it on Monday just gone.
He used it so he could use the NeXt OS and stuck to it