I wanted to share something that happened with me over the Easter weekend. A/ because it might encourage others, and B/ I'm interested in other people's experiences.
We had a gathering at our house on Saturday night and we had just sung Isa 53:5 and, one of the older gentlemen asked the question whether the word "crushed" used in that passage was related to Psalm 34:18 (NIV) The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
During a break time, I disappeared into my office - did a word study on both lemmas and cut and pasted the results along with with using Visual Copy to create a short definition that displayed the gloss (enough to see that they were from the same root but have slightly different meanings) and then printed it off on a sheet of paper. Took me 5 minutes max.
The reaction from this particular person was awesome. I was so happy to be able to serve him in this way as he went further down this little rabbit trail. He was curious about how I had been able to produce something so fast so I told him about Logos. Without reinforcing stereotypes (I'm aware that there are many people with above average years that are avid technologists), as an elderly person he was happy that such tools existed and that I had given him a piece of paper rather than showing something on a screen.
In saying that, there were a few people looking over his shoulder who were also interested—younger 20-somethings who trooped back with me to the office for an impromptu demo. I'll be following up with them over the next weeks to help them get setup at least with Logos Basic if not something more. I believe its common knowledge that Logos has a referral program so if they want to invest some money into a base package I can get them $100off. Or, I'm toying with just suggesting they jump on board with the new subscriptions.
Getting people using Logos is good and all, but it is only a means to an end, which is to get them into Scripture. So that is my main request/question. Is anyone else willing to share how Logos has helped in these types of ad-hoc discussions, not necessarily to get them into using Logos but engaged with Scripture. Again just to be clear, there are the obvious aspects of how it helps with the preparing for sermons, Bible studies, etc, I'm more curious about stories of unlooked for, unplanned opportunities, and how Logos added value to the interaction. Thank you in advance for your contributions.
