HOW'S YOUR SERVICE?

Being that I’m currently not working (for pay) and focusing my attention on starting Resurrected Life, our budget is quite tight. Heidi and I get serious about our monthly budget as it is, but not having any income right now and living off of our reserves has made us even more conservative when it comes to spending. We simply don’t splurge on things.

Our budget does give us some little perks so we don’t feel like we’re wearing a straight jacket, but we are definitely cutting back on the non-necessities. Going out to eat at restaurants is one of those perks. For our family of four, our restaurant line-item allows for approximately four cheap meals or two nicer meals a month…and that’s if we even go out. Heidi’s cooking is phenomenal and so much cheaper than going out. Normally, when we go out, we don’t even enjoy it because it wasn’t as good as her cooking and we figure out that we spent five times what it would have cost her to make it.

All this to say, we normally go to the cheaper places when we do go out—we get more meals that way and it doesn’t bother us as much when we don’t quite enjoy it. But tonight, Heidi had a craving for Chicago’s Pizza (ironically, it was right when we were driving past it). We had eaten there once before and truly enjoyed the food, but it was more expensive than what we normally pay for pizza. So, we talked about it and decided that we would go there after running some errands.

(Note: Please don’t hear the following as me complaining about this establishment; the pizza was good but I need to lay this all out to get to my thoughts.) The pizza was good, but the service wasn’t. I’m pretty sure that we got sausage instead of the beef we ordered, we didn’t get refills on our water, and we didn’t have all of the necessary tableware. As I said, the pizza was good, but the service really took away the enjoyment of the experience. I would have rather gone somewhere else, even it it was cheaper pizza and not as “good”.

And that got me thinking…”how’s your service?” In whatever it is you do, no matter what your product is, or how good it is, “how’s your service?” We have such an impact on what we are selling, promoting, or connected to.

“How’s your service” when it comes to sharing the gospel with others? Those who are believers have the greatest “product” around, but is our “service”—the way we present it; the way we act; the way we live—diminishing the value of what we have to offer?


Chicago’s Pizza has great pizza, but we probably won’t go back—partially because of the service. We have something wonderful to offer in Jesus Christ—I pray that you don’t lose any “customers” because of your service.