The Executive Pastor Podcast
The Executive Pastor Podcast helps church leaders think clearly, lead courageously, and move their teams toward radical alignment to the Great Commission.
How to Turn Every Meeting Into Action Items With AI
Back-to-back meetings are where decisions go to be forgotten. In this episode, Doug and Bart break down using AI transcription to turn every meeting into a clean list of who owns what by when, so you stop having the same conversation three weeks later.
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Why decisions get made in meetings but die in someone's notes app instead of getting doneChoosing an AI notetaker: accuracy, calendar integration, and where your meeting data actually gets storedThe consent conversation: telling your team a meeting is being recorded, every time, and knowing when to turn it offReal...How to Kill Your Admin Busywork With AI
Newsletters, bulletins, announcements, and routine emails eat hours that never move the mission. In this episode, Doug and Bart break down how to draft one message with AI and turn it into five channel-ready formats in minutes, plus the one review step you can never skip.
In this episode:
1. The reusable prompt template for church comms
2. Repurposing one message into five formats
3. Review-and-personalize: the human step you can't skip
This week's challenge: build one reusable prompt template with your team and use it on your next multi-channel announcement.
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How to Write a Church AI Policy Before You Need One
Fewer than 5% of churches have an AI policy. Meanwhile, everyone on your staff is already using AI. That gap is where the messes happen: private member data pasted into chatbots, pastoral messages that read like form letters, and a free-for-all with no guardrails.
In this episode, Doug Parks and Bart Rendel (co-founders of Intentional Churches) walk through a practical one-page AI policy outline you can draft before the episode is even over. You'll learn what should never go into a prompt (and the simple "postcard test" to teach your staff), when to disclose that AI was involved...
How to Start Using AI at Your Church This Week
93% of pastors now use AI, but only about a third of churches use it in actual operations. The gap is a playbook, not permission. In this episode, we break down the fastest, safest ways to put AI to work as your "tireless intern" that produces solid first drafts while you make the calls. We cover the three tasks to hand off first and the one you never should.
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