WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.680 But right now, I tell you what I want to do. 00:00:01.920 --> 00:00:07.520 Every time we do a town hall, we do a survey where we get out there and listen specifically to you 00:00:07.520 --> 00:00:15.000 and start asking questions from people like you that are doing digital ministry work literally around the world. 00:00:15.460 --> 00:00:16.860 And so this is what I want you to do. 00:00:17.260 --> 00:00:19.060 Let me click some buttons here and get it up. 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:28.500 But if you can go to the conversation prompt, it's going to be survey.thechurch.digital. 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:31.940 Survey, S-U-R-V-E-Y.thechurch.digital. 00:00:31.980 --> 00:00:34.260 That little green button there, we want to hear from you. 00:00:34.760 --> 00:00:35.600 Well, it's almost there. 00:00:36.040 --> 00:00:37.640 At least it could be there on your screen. 00:00:37.780 --> 00:00:38.840 But click on that. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.760 If you're in Hubelot, I think the technology works that if you click on that button, 00:00:43.220 --> 00:00:45.160 it'll link you straight out to where you want to go. 00:00:45.260 --> 00:00:48.540 It'll open a new window and you'll still be connected to this to hear me. 00:00:49.060 --> 00:00:52.020 But either way, we're doing the survey now. 00:00:52.860 --> 00:00:54.040 This is Jason Morris' idea. 00:00:54.360 --> 00:00:55.880 We're not just doing this part of town hall. 00:00:55.980 --> 00:00:57.560 We're going to extend it all the way through the conference. 00:00:58.020 --> 00:01:01.740 And when Jason does his talk in digital neighborhoods, I think he's going to reference it. 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:09.120 And so survey.thechurch.digital, you can take it while we are going through. 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:12.480 And so now I think survey. 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:17.960 These things give you too many warnings, Andy, except that you didn't punch the red button. 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:20.700 Evidently, it doesn't give a warning that you didn't punch the red button. 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:22.340 We've got to figure that out. 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:24.060 Survey.thechurch.digital. 00:01:24.180 --> 00:01:26.240 Survey.thechurch.digital. 00:01:26.300 --> 00:01:27.660 We want to see that or we want to hear from you. 00:01:27.740 --> 00:01:29.700 You can click the green button to go there. 00:01:29.800 --> 00:01:32.860 But let's roll through a couple slides here. 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:34.840 Where are you from? 00:01:35.460 --> 00:01:36.620 We do get this one a lot. 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:37.480 Where are you from? 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:42.480 This is one of my favorite questions, just to kind of see where people are all over the planet. 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:46.040 We've had 25 people or so take the survey already. 00:01:46.660 --> 00:01:54.480 And you can see, obviously, there's a big chunk here in America, three down here in where I live, four now, 11 and four down in Miami. 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:58.800 We can see, you know, these surveys, the results are popping up real time on the screen. 00:01:58.980 --> 00:02:00.060 But I love this. 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:03.680 We're starting to see, is this New Zealand or Oceania down here? 00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:08.140 Obviously, Australia, Asia Pacific, India coming in. 00:02:08.920 --> 00:02:09.920 Is that Italy? 00:02:10.760 --> 00:02:11.220 I guess. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:12.400 Germany. 00:02:12.620 --> 00:02:15.120 We've got Africa coming in, sub-Saharan Africa. 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:21.920 And so it's exciting for me to see how this is already spreading globally. 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:25.600 And over the coming days, we're going to get this survey in front of more people. 00:02:25.900 --> 00:02:32.100 And we want to see, obviously, that spread far beyond what we're looking at in just North America. 00:02:32.500 --> 00:02:37.800 And to allow gospel, to allow digital missions to contextualize and adapt culturally around the world. 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:46.040 By the way, whoever this is down here in Mexico or wherever it is down there in Central America, I'd love to meet you. 00:02:46.220 --> 00:02:47.080 I'd love to talk with you. 00:02:47.200 --> 00:02:50.600 So if you know who that is that comes to mind, let's do that. 00:02:50.660 --> 00:02:51.660 Let's look at some other questions. 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:55.240 My primary ministry is in what platform? 00:02:55.720 --> 00:02:58.240 My primary ministry is in what platform? 00:02:58.580 --> 00:02:59.280 I love you all. 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.500 I still can't believe Facebook is number one when I do this. 00:03:01.720 --> 00:03:04.160 I just, I'm blown, I'm blown away. 00:03:04.460 --> 00:03:05.500 I don't. 00:03:06.580 --> 00:03:07.200 God bless you. 00:03:07.200 --> 00:03:08.980 But I hope it's being effective. 00:03:09.340 --> 00:03:10.520 I hope you're reaching people. 00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:18.260 Even like Facebook Substack is, but Facebook, I just, I know, I don't look at it as that type of platform anymore. 00:03:18.440 --> 00:03:21.660 But obviously somebody does, and it's effective doing it. 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:22.300 So God bless you. 00:03:22.720 --> 00:03:29.940 Twitch, Zoom, WhatsApp, YouTube, Discord, VRChat, in-person, church online platform. 00:03:30.440 --> 00:03:34.580 Peacemaking Communities had an interesting conversation with Judy earlier about that. 00:03:34.700 --> 00:03:36.320 One, Facebook, two, WhatsApp. 00:03:37.220 --> 00:03:37.940 That's good. 00:03:38.340 --> 00:03:40.960 And so connecting with people on Facebook, driving it to WhatsApp. 00:03:41.500 --> 00:03:42.140 You know what? 00:03:42.140 --> 00:03:42.840 I take it back. 00:03:43.100 --> 00:03:44.340 I can see that. 00:03:44.340 --> 00:03:52.760 If Facebook is being driven to a platform to dialogue at a deeper level, maybe I'd be more comfortable with that. 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:56.580 Because I just, Facebook gets really shallow. 00:03:57.080 --> 00:03:58.260 Sometimes it feels like. 00:03:58.400 --> 00:03:59.540 Maybe I'm judgmental. 00:03:59.900 --> 00:04:03.980 I tell you what, you can at Andy and let him know your distaste for that. 00:04:04.060 --> 00:04:06.340 Andy, A-N-D-Y, at thechurch.digital. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:06.820 That'll be great. 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:11.220 Are you involved in ministry that functions primarily digitally? 00:04:12.160 --> 00:04:15.060 So of the ministry you're doing, 23 people responded so far. 00:04:15.140 --> 00:04:16.460 It's going to keep this survey open. 00:04:16.940 --> 00:04:19.380 Survey.thechurch.digital if you're just joining in. 00:04:19.740 --> 00:04:20.760 Open up a separate webpage. 00:04:20.880 --> 00:04:21.560 Don't close this. 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:22.540 Obviously, listen in. 00:04:23.860 --> 00:04:24.980 Three people, no. 00:04:25.440 --> 00:04:28.480 Eight people, kinda, primarily digital. 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:33.280 And then 16 people, strong, yes, that their ministry functions primarily. 00:04:33.660 --> 00:04:34.940 Primarily is the important word. 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:35.840 Digitally. 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:42.000 Are you also involved in additional ministry that functions primarily physically? 00:04:42.740 --> 00:04:48.800 Are you only digital or are you kind of digital, physical, or all in digital, but also help out physical? 00:04:49.080 --> 00:04:49.940 What does that look like? 00:04:50.440 --> 00:04:51.320 Five said no. 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:53.680 Five said kinda. 00:04:53.980 --> 00:04:55.020 And 16 said yes. 00:04:55.140 --> 00:05:02.060 Once again, 16 people, the majority here, are functioning primarily physically. 00:05:03.100 --> 00:05:05.360 And so that's an interesting, that's me, by the way. 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:16.620 I mean, I would say that I am primarily digital, but I am helping a ministry, actually a number of ministries, that are working in physical space. 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:21.860 I don't consider myself my ministry hybrid as much, because my focus is digital. 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:29.980 But, you know, when a church in town, actually, I just today signed another church that wants me to help them with their AVL stuff. 00:05:30.140 --> 00:05:32.420 And so, like, I'm not driving the church's vision. 00:05:33.420 --> 00:05:40.140 I'm driving the church digital's vision, and I'm helping this other organization, you know, achieve theirs towards that. 00:05:40.260 --> 00:05:42.260 And so, I don't think it's wrong to be mixed there. 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:44.760 It's just, it's curious to see what that balance is. 00:05:45.100 --> 00:05:45.760 Next question. 00:05:46.200 --> 00:05:50.840 Share any thoughts on the physical digital tensions in ministry. 00:05:52.280 --> 00:05:54.440 One, obviously, ministry reach. 00:05:54.880 --> 00:06:01.080 The scale we are able to reach through digital is amazing, and way more than we can do in person, and is a great gateway. 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:06.040 But the embodied reality of the physical ministry feels very important. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:06.780 It's interesting. 00:06:06.900 --> 00:06:14.380 There still is a lot of mindset around the embodiment, the physicality of it coming in. 00:06:15.300 --> 00:06:16.420 Both have their strengths. 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:22.520 Digital can be daily, 24-7, and easier for those estranged from the church. 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:25.540 Physical, it's easier to meet in physical needs. 00:06:25.980 --> 00:06:26.260 That's true. 00:06:26.320 --> 00:06:27.880 Physical is easier to meet in physical needs. 00:06:28.280 --> 00:06:28.980 You know, it's interesting. 00:06:29.140 --> 00:06:30.940 I fall back on Pastor Dee. 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:35.940 I did a stream with her last week, two weeks ago, and asked her, like, what's the difference between digital and physical? 00:06:35.940 --> 00:06:38.500 And she said digital is much more intimate. 00:06:39.180 --> 00:06:39.940 Digital to her. 00:06:40.080 --> 00:06:45.340 And she's a pastor, African-American pastor, 12 years out of a church in California, digital only. 00:06:46.520 --> 00:06:49.840 And she says digital is more intimate than physical. 00:06:50.060 --> 00:06:51.580 I was not expecting that. 00:06:51.940 --> 00:06:56.580 Community building, integration approaches, how to integrate together, technology adaptions. 00:06:56.580 --> 00:06:59.520 We're going to publish all of these down the road. 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:00.240 New responses. 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:02.200 Ones are coming in just now. 00:07:02.780 --> 00:07:03.680 Relax and enjoy. 00:07:03.780 --> 00:07:06.880 It's something of a balancing act to keep the two working together. 00:07:07.520 --> 00:07:07.800 Lots. 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:09.720 I don't know what lots is, but good luck to you. 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.620 Lots sounds like lots was a early submission. 00:07:14.180 --> 00:07:15.100 So that's known to happen. 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:16.980 I do that all the time. 00:07:17.060 --> 00:07:18.020 Hey, let's hit next slide. 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:23.180 Do you have a relationship that are primarily fostered around digital tools? 00:07:23.700 --> 00:07:26.060 Do you have a relationship or relationships? 00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:29.340 I almost drank coffee from a candle. 00:07:30.860 --> 00:07:32.560 Let's just make sure you grab the right thing, Jeff. 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:38.120 Do you have relationships with people that are primarily fostered with digital tools? 00:07:38.500 --> 00:07:42.600 So 5% say they have no relationships that are in that space. 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:44.440 45% have some relationships. 00:07:45.100 --> 00:07:53.480 And 50% of you, 50% of digital missionaries responding here, have many relationships that are primarily fostered with digital tools. 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:55.100 This would be digital only. 00:07:55.200 --> 00:08:01.320 This would be digital, strong, physical, weak, but not a physical relationship that goes digital. 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:02.020 And so that's cool. 00:08:02.380 --> 00:08:06.520 You're knowing people in digital community and building relationships with that. 00:08:07.400 --> 00:08:16.920 Considering your digital fostered relationships, have you felt that you have helped individuals grow closer to God? 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:21.160 So far, it looks like this was a question we added late in. 00:08:21.260 --> 00:08:23.160 11 people answered this. 00:08:23.260 --> 00:08:25.140 I would love if you all have had this point. 00:08:25.280 --> 00:08:27.020 Survey.thechurch.digital. 00:08:27.080 --> 00:08:28.560 We would love to hear from you on this. 00:08:29.620 --> 00:08:36.660 67% of people interviewed would say absolutely they have helped people grow closer to God. 00:08:37.260 --> 00:08:44.200 Digitally, 33% would say sometimes, and then 0% would say not really. 00:08:44.700 --> 00:08:50.940 So we are, as a digital missionary, we are making a difference, helping people grow closer to God. 00:08:51.040 --> 00:08:51.520 It's interesting. 00:08:51.660 --> 00:08:56.460 I play an iPhone game called Last War. 00:08:57.260 --> 00:09:01.060 It's zombie meets SimCity meets World War III. 00:09:01.940 --> 00:09:06.380 And so I'm in alliance with some people, 100 people around the country, around the planet. 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:08.300 And, you know, there's active chat. 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.240 And the leader's wife got baptized over the weekend. 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:12.400 Leader's a Christian. 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:15.760 We've talked about Christ pretty openly in the group. 00:09:15.760 --> 00:09:16.920 And there's many that are Christian. 00:09:16.980 --> 00:09:18.120 There are many that are not Christian. 00:09:18.900 --> 00:09:20.660 But there's maybe there's me. 00:09:20.860 --> 00:09:21.560 There's the leader. 00:09:21.880 --> 00:09:22.640 His name's Chum. 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.020 And then there's the other guy, Team Jesus 34. 00:09:25.280 --> 00:09:26.500 I don't know what 34 stands for. 00:09:26.620 --> 00:09:31.140 But he's the one that's a little more, you know, bang you over the head with the gospel. 00:09:31.280 --> 00:09:32.960 And the others are a little more subtle. 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.960 If you're Team Jesus 34, I mean, I'd love to have a Zoom call with you. 00:09:37.620 --> 00:09:44.140 Anyway, but it's fun, like, you know, getting to celebrate his wife and have that conversation with him. 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:46.860 And other people now asking, what does baptism mean? 00:09:46.900 --> 00:09:48.040 And having those conversations. 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.740 Like, there's a natural implication to draw people closer to God. 00:09:53.800 --> 00:10:03.940 Of your digitally fostered relationships, how many of these digitally fostered relationships are you currently actively discipling? 00:10:04.600 --> 00:10:06.200 So you're having a relationship. 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:07.500 Like, I have a relationship with Chum. 00:10:08.420 --> 00:10:10.760 I don't know that I'm discipling him. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:16.460 I wouldn't say that I'm intentional towards what I'm doing with Chum 371, I think. 00:10:17.020 --> 00:10:19.520 But so that would not account for me here. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:21.020 So let's look at this. 00:10:21.400 --> 00:10:25.240 Of your digitally fostered relationships, how many are you currently actively discipling? 00:10:25.700 --> 00:10:28.900 Zero percent of people are, or some are saying none. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.840 Some are saying one to two people. 00:10:33.420 --> 00:10:35.140 Some are saying three to five. 00:10:35.340 --> 00:10:36.740 Some are saying here six to 11. 00:10:37.160 --> 00:10:48.360 22 percent, almost one of four, are saying 11 plus people are being actively discipled at this point digitally. 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:53.660 So people of you that you know digitally, one in four are discipling 11 people. 00:10:54.140 --> 00:10:58.420 You do some rough math here, that's 50, almost 60 percent. 00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:03.240 Three of five are discipling three or more people currently digitally. 00:11:03.540 --> 00:11:05.600 That's exciting to me. 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:07.660 And I hope that trend continues on. 00:11:08.140 --> 00:11:12.360 What's also interesting is if you look at the green here, many relationships. 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:18.120 So earlier we asked the question, do you have relationships with people primarily with digital tools? 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:24.280 The people that said that they had many relationships are the ones that are on the high end of this. 00:11:24.980 --> 00:11:34.180 So the people that are actively and intentionally focused on connecting with people are intentionally focused on driving them towards discipleship. 00:11:34.460 --> 00:11:35.080 I love this. 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:36.080 This is great, man. 00:11:36.340 --> 00:11:37.380 This is telling the story. 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:45.140 Of these digitally fostered relationships, how many have you personally led to Christ and salvation? 00:11:45.140 --> 00:11:51.780 Now, you know, there's some really interesting language here around what Christ is salvation and what that means in 25. 00:11:52.220 --> 00:11:53.560 And is that a decision? 00:11:54.040 --> 00:11:55.100 Is that a long term? 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:56.840 You know, we can have that conversation. 00:11:57.020 --> 00:11:57.760 And we already did. 00:11:57.880 --> 00:11:58.500 You know, thank you. 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.800 Micah jumped on it in discord and he's not wrong. 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:03.840 So don't overthink the question. 00:12:04.400 --> 00:12:11.340 But how many people would you say that you've led to Christ where there was a transformation, a decision where there was a change? 00:12:12.140 --> 00:12:13.000 It's interesting. 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:20.820 Maybe it's a biased question because of that cultural change in decision and what that looks like today. 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.040 But 78% would say none. 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:28.660 They've not seen a specific event of life change more towards it. 00:12:28.700 --> 00:12:39.840 Now, a relational discipleship does lean more towards a casual disciple growing as opposed to raising your hand and chop and accepting Christ. 00:12:39.980 --> 00:12:41.920 So, you know, I get that tension. 00:12:42.300 --> 00:12:47.640 But starting to look here, okay, one to two, 17% would say one to two people. 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:49.860 Six percent would say three to five. 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.480 And at a large scale, not much. 00:12:53.060 --> 00:12:57.580 You know, this is actually one of the things that I think Jason is going to dig into in the conference. 00:12:57.900 --> 00:12:58.900 And I'm actually excited. 00:12:58.900 --> 00:13:04.920 One of the other people, Jeff Vanderstelt, is going to come and speak on gospel fluidity in the Digital Neighborhoods Conference. 00:13:05.520 --> 00:13:08.020 And I'm so excited about that talk. 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:13.260 Like, I've wanted Jeff Vanderstelt to come talk to you all for over a year on this book. 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:14.260 It's phenomenal. 00:13:14.760 --> 00:13:17.820 And it's eye-opening in the conversation that surrounds this. 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:25.820 I would suggest that there's a culture shift that we, the Church Digital, are going to be looking at in the coming season. 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:27.320 All right, hey, let's look at this. 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.300 There's always a culture shift at the Church Digital. 00:13:30.540 --> 00:13:35.400 If somebody didn't comment, I can't see the chat right now, but if somebody didn't comment that, you should have. 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:36.260 A lot of you were thanking it. 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:41.880 Considering these digitally fostered relationships you have, how many people have been baptized? 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:51.160 You know, I mean, this right here, this is one of the biggest criticisms of digital church and of digital discipleship. 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.060 You know me, I talk about this. 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:59.120 When people say the local church, I cringe. 00:13:59.640 --> 00:14:01.360 Like, it's nails on the chalkboard. 00:14:01.700 --> 00:14:11.680 It's the, you don't mean it to be a slam, but I interpret it, anytime I hear it, I get negative quickly. 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:17.960 Because I'm interpreting it as, well, you can't do church digitally, you have to do it physically in the local space. 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:23.520 And the biggest argument that we get, how are people getting wet? 00:14:24.500 --> 00:14:25.720 What does that look like? 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:36.800 So, of the digital missionaries out there that are fostering relationships, zero people are 56%, more than the majority, more than the majority. 00:14:36.900 --> 00:14:39.520 The majority are saying no, no baptisms. 00:14:40.380 --> 00:14:42.560 And then it's scattered throughout, beneath here. 00:14:43.280 --> 00:14:44.420 This is a big deal. 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:46.860 This is a big deal to me. 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:48.440 This is a big deal to Jason. 00:14:48.800 --> 00:14:54.680 And this is one of the things that, you know, organizationally, you know, Jason's been asking in the background some of this. 00:14:54.680 --> 00:15:01.900 And I do, I think that it's time for us to address this and some other issues. 00:15:02.060 --> 00:15:10.660 Like, if we're legitimatizing what digital mission work is, and the Bible, listen, I mean, I'm not saying baptism is important. 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.800 I'm saying, look at the Bible, and the Bible is saying baptism is important. 00:15:14.400 --> 00:15:16.220 And so, like, we've got to figure that out. 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:22.720 You know, if somebody wants to go get baptized in a virtual reality pool with pixels, I love that. 00:15:22.760 --> 00:15:23.380 Let's do that. 00:15:23.380 --> 00:15:24.380 But that's a baptism. 00:15:24.680 --> 00:15:26.420 Let's call that a baptism and call it done. 00:15:26.580 --> 00:15:27.840 Ed Stetzer may not call it a baptism. 00:15:27.980 --> 00:15:28.400 Hey, Ed. 00:15:28.760 --> 00:15:33.560 But we would be fine calling it a baptism and moving on with that. 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:39.220 But once again, that's an intentional act that's happening even in digital or virtual space. 00:15:39.220 --> 00:15:51.860 So, what can we do to use our digital relationships and the digital influence that we have with these people that we're fostering and discipling to lead them to a place of discipleship? 00:15:52.740 --> 00:15:55.520 This was a conversation for a conversation for a different day, I'm sure. 00:15:56.460 --> 00:16:01.100 The heart of the church digital is to help people have gospel conversations digitally. 00:16:01.680 --> 00:16:03.880 Hey, Mr. Pete, and in virtual reality. 00:16:04.340 --> 00:16:06.620 I couldn't fit virtual reality on the slide. 00:16:06.680 --> 00:16:07.300 I'm sorry, sir. 00:16:07.940 --> 00:16:10.880 What do you consider a gospel conversation? 00:16:11.880 --> 00:16:13.840 This was eye-opening to me. 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:18.500 This was I came in with an idea and I walked out with another one. 00:16:19.300 --> 00:16:22.340 And so there's not necessarily a right answer or a wrong answer. 00:16:22.680 --> 00:16:25.800 This is something that we as an organization have to figure out. 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:32.200 A gospel conversation is talking with a non-Christian about making a decision to follow Jesus. 00:16:32.660 --> 00:16:34.660 11% of you are saying that right now. 00:16:34.800 --> 00:16:39.700 Or talking with Christians and non-Christians, helping them grow closer to God. 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:48.680 So, an atheist turning to an agnostic, acknowledging that God exists, is a gospel conversation because they got one step closer to understanding God. 00:16:48.680 --> 00:17:01.920 And a Christian who goes from a casual consumer Christian but accepted Jesus into a deeper, multiplying, disciple-making relationship, that is also a step closer to God. 00:17:02.180 --> 00:17:04.280 But is that a gospel conversation? 00:17:05.160 --> 00:17:13.140 And so this is some of the things that I wanted to know what people were thinking as we talk about what a gospel conversation is. 00:17:14.180 --> 00:17:17.900 Does your spouse minister with you with your digital ministry? 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:20.680 6% said, I'm single. 00:17:21.340 --> 00:17:22.280 Maybe good for you. 00:17:22.320 --> 00:17:23.340 I don't know how that works for you. 00:17:23.660 --> 00:17:26.820 12% said, yes, your spouse does minister with you. 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:28.200 82% said, no. 00:17:29.040 --> 00:17:31.320 At a personal level, I'm in the 82%. 00:17:31.320 --> 00:17:37.120 My wife, I love her, and this is nothing about her, but she's not a digital-friendly person. 00:17:37.760 --> 00:17:42.960 And so, like, the stuff that I'm doing, she's learned, but we're in a different space. 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:49.740 She does ministry, incredible ministry through her school, and she's really good with kids, much better than I am. 00:17:49.940 --> 00:17:54.580 But we don't often do ministry aligned much in digital space. 00:17:54.780 --> 00:17:58.520 Ironically, we'll work together in physical space helping do a church production. 00:17:58.660 --> 00:18:01.520 She's great with, like, ProPresenter and those types of softwares. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:03.900 But digital, it's really been separate. 00:18:04.120 --> 00:18:09.940 And so, I don't know if guilty is the right word, but I'm in this 82% where it's not aligned. 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:12.960 Do you have opinions or share your thoughts on that? 00:18:13.600 --> 00:18:15.460 My wife joins in when she can help the vision. 00:18:15.580 --> 00:18:17.220 We are co-labors of our digital ministry. 00:18:17.740 --> 00:18:18.480 Don't have. 00:18:18.740 --> 00:18:19.520 She is not. 00:18:20.180 --> 00:18:28.360 My wife and I share in the pastoral ministry in a traditional congregation, but the digital piece is mostly my area of focus rather than hers right now. 00:18:28.720 --> 00:18:32.000 That, I believe, is actually going to be a common theme. 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.200 And maybe that's something to address. 00:18:35.540 --> 00:18:39.540 Like, how do we get our spouses more involved in what we're doing? 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:40.260 Is that right? 00:18:40.260 --> 00:18:45.340 Like, what does a spouse look like of a digital church? 00:18:45.820 --> 00:18:48.220 How can he or she support that? 00:18:51.420 --> 00:18:56.400 It would be a good thing knowing that two will put $10,000 to flight. 00:18:57.620 --> 00:19:01.860 I don't get that, but I think it would be a good thing. 00:19:02.280 --> 00:19:04.780 So, let's just call that and move on. 00:19:04.780 --> 00:19:05.400 All right. 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.600 Do your children participate with you in digital ministry? 00:19:09.120 --> 00:19:11.520 13% said no, or no kids. 00:19:12.540 --> 00:19:13.440 More power to you. 00:19:13.980 --> 00:19:16.040 69% said no, they don't. 00:19:16.120 --> 00:19:20.660 But 19%, one out of five, have the kids somewhat involved in ministry. 00:19:21.100 --> 00:19:24.540 Looking at how they sometimes help with scripture reading and prayer. 00:19:25.040 --> 00:19:27.440 We hope to start a digital group for some kids. 00:19:27.820 --> 00:19:29.300 I'm digitally discipling soon. 00:19:29.380 --> 00:19:30.260 Excited about that. 00:19:30.540 --> 00:19:36.340 We're exploring doing more on camera time with our children to model family discipleship. 00:19:36.420 --> 00:19:37.340 I love that. 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:38.700 They do their own. 00:19:38.700 --> 00:19:40.640 I got to tell you, that's a great answer, too. 00:19:40.940 --> 00:19:42.500 No, they don't help with our ministry. 00:19:42.700 --> 00:19:44.380 We thought them ought to do their own thing. 00:19:45.140 --> 00:19:48.860 We want to be careful about the safety of children in a digital space. 00:19:49.540 --> 00:19:51.200 Definitely agree with that as well. 00:19:51.280 --> 00:19:56.100 And so, once again, I don't think there's a right or wrong answer as we're looking at how we're doing this. 00:19:56.100 --> 00:20:08.860 As much as, let's ask the question, how can we model a digital, a complete family ministry or do ministry with the kids in digital space? 00:20:08.860 --> 00:20:15.760 And so, if you have not filled out the survey, feel free to click that link on the screen. 00:20:15.860 --> 00:20:16.820 We want to hear from you. 00:20:17.300 --> 00:20:25.060 Or go to survey.thechurch.digital to do this. 00:20:25.100 --> 00:20:27.900 The survey will be left open beyond this. 00:20:27.900 --> 00:20:30.860 And I think we're actually wrapping up with one or two slides. 00:20:31.420 --> 00:20:33.200 But we'll go beyond this. 00:20:33.260 --> 00:20:36.720 We're going to keep the survey open to September 17th or so. 00:20:36.800 --> 00:20:40.880 I believe Jason's going to present on this on September 17th. 00:20:41.220 --> 00:20:43.740 Biggest challenge facing your digital ministry today. 00:20:44.940 --> 00:20:47.920 And I went ahead and just left it open so people could type whatever they want. 00:20:48.420 --> 00:20:50.160 And, I mean, it's a hodgepodge. 00:20:50.780 --> 00:20:51.940 We've got time. 00:20:52.380 --> 00:20:57.740 We've got overwhelming controversy, recognition, screen fatigue, technical skills, recruiting people. 00:20:57.740 --> 00:20:58.420 It's challenging. 00:20:58.560 --> 00:21:05.800 Viral marketing, asynchronous communications, money, follow-up, effectiveness, schedules, meeting time, getting people to take. 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:12.420 Coherence within ministry, discipleship pathway, resistance to technology, scalability, getting people to come. 00:21:13.040 --> 00:21:14.200 Government monitoring. 00:21:16.780 --> 00:21:18.760 Yeah, that's something we don't face in America. 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:21.820 Government monitoring, changing time, at least not yet. 00:21:22.100 --> 00:21:24.160 I don't mean anything political by that. 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:28.880 Once again, if you've got hate mail on that comment, Andy at thechurch.digital, that'll be great. 00:21:29.540 --> 00:21:33.560 Impersonal resources, sustainable, building content, fewer labor's funding. 00:21:34.200 --> 00:21:39.340 Look, the point is, is there's lots of issues surrounding this. 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:42.060 And we're going to talk about this. 00:21:42.120 --> 00:21:43.080 I had an idea. 00:21:43.660 --> 00:21:45.340 Actually, I'm just going to be honest. 00:21:45.420 --> 00:21:47.180 I had an idea when this question came in. 00:21:48.100 --> 00:21:48.900 Okay, I'm going to be honest. 00:21:48.940 --> 00:21:50.400 We had an idea maybe a week before. 00:21:50.460 --> 00:21:51.920 But it really ties into this question. 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:56.960 TCD does a lot to train and equip individuals to start digital ministries. 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:01.000 What if I don't want to start something yet, but I want to serve and learn in an existing ministry? 00:22:01.100 --> 00:22:01.940 How do I find that? 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:10.480 I want to acknowledge right here with this slide, this is the only question that we, I believe that's the only question. 00:22:10.580 --> 00:22:10.700 Yeah. 00:22:10.840 --> 00:22:13.340 This was the only question that we received so far with that. 00:22:13.780 --> 00:22:17.260 And I think this is a completely, completely valid question. 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:20.400 We're going to come back to this in a second. 00:22:20.520 --> 00:22:22.340 This is, this is really good. 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:25.260 How, listen, I don't want to do my thing. 00:22:25.660 --> 00:22:28.740 I want to help somebody else do their thing. 00:22:29.120 --> 00:22:29.840 Don't go anywhere. 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:30.600 Stick around for that. 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:32.020 Let's, let's dig in. 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:35.320 Andy, can you make the screen go away for me? 00:22:36.580 --> 00:22:37.340 This, yeah. 00:22:37.380 --> 00:22:38.060 Thank you for that. 00:22:38.520 --> 00:22:42.020 The, I still don't really, I'm not comfortable with the interface. 00:22:42.080 --> 00:22:42.840 Do I have to turn it off? 00:22:42.900 --> 00:22:43.920 I may have to turn it off. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:46.780 Um, yeah, I do. 00:22:46.900 --> 00:22:47.300 It's on me. 00:22:47.800 --> 00:22:48.340 That's fine. 00:22:49.100 --> 00:22:51.420 The, um, it's too many buttons, man. 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:52.260 Too many buttons. 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.220 So here's what I want to do with, um, next. 00:22:57.260 --> 00:22:59.500 Uh, listen, we're really excited about this survey. 00:22:59.500 --> 00:23:04.280 We're going to roll out the results of this survey at the Digital Neighborhoods Conference. 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.440 And we're actually going to talk here about the conferences overall. 00:23:07.600 --> 00:23:08.180 Actually, you know what? 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:08.640 Let me go ahead. 00:23:08.660 --> 00:23:10.680 I'll click that slide and we'll get into it. 00:23:10.760 --> 00:23:19.540 But we are, are very excited to do the, um, to do the conferences and to talk about some 00:23:19.540 --> 00:23:25.360 of, of, of what's coming up, uh, with the, the conferences, the surveys, Jason, uh, coming 00:23:25.360 --> 00:23:26.660 in Digital Neighborhoods. 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:32.920 Uh, we've got Conrad from, uh, the CEO of Project Exodus, a recovery organization in 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.660 South Africa, who's doing great work around the world, is coming in to be one of the keynote 00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:38.580 leads for our recovery conference. 00:23:38.580 --> 00:23:41.920 When I look at the European Summit, their lineup is ridiculous. 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:43.260 Thirteen people. 00:23:43.380 --> 00:23:44.380 It's going to be like TED Talk. 00:23:44.520 --> 00:23:45.640 Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. 00:23:46.060 --> 00:23:48.640 All, all very early morning here in America. 00:23:48.780 --> 00:23:50.840 Excited about their conference overall. 00:23:51.180 --> 00:23:53.420 And, uh, and, uh, gaming conference. 00:23:53.820 --> 00:23:55.440 An incredible lineup. 00:23:55.840 --> 00:24:01.580 Uh, it's people that I've heard a long time ago, uh, going from Jay Earhart all the way 00:24:01.580 --> 00:24:06.980 up to, uh, Christian Ninja, who I've never heard publicly speak, but I've read his stuff 00:24:06.980 --> 00:24:09.500 and excited to see what that's going to look like. 00:24:09.500 --> 00:24:14.740 Like, the, the lineup of conferences that we're doing here starting in September 17th 00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:15.500 is, is incredible. 00:24:16.560 --> 00:24:19.140 And, uh, the survey will fit into, like, it's, it's going to be beautiful. 00:24:19.260 --> 00:24:22.280 Can you believe we're three weeks out from the conferences? 00:24:22.520 --> 00:24:24.600 Like, to me, this is the thing. 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:26.680 I, I, I, I, I, we blinked. 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:27.660 We sneezed. 00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:28.540 Something happened. 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:31.900 And all of a sudden, I'm looking at the Digital Missionary Conference. 00:24:32.580 --> 00:24:39.120 And I am, uh, at the website, and it says 21 days, 21 days in a couple hours. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:42.240 Tomorrow, 21 days, we're launching Digital Neighborhoods. 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:44.180 And, and my, my heart, like, like, jumped. 00:24:44.820 --> 00:24:47.000 Um, we, Pastor D, glad you're here. 00:24:47.340 --> 00:24:49.900 We need your help here. 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:50.780 Not just Pastor D. 00:24:50.900 --> 00:24:52.460 Pastor D, that was, that was a weird transition. 00:24:52.580 --> 00:24:53.020 I apologize. 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:55.760 But we, we need your help across the board. 00:24:56.360 --> 00:25:02.540 I need you all to jump into, um, Andy, that's not on my screen. 00:25:02.540 --> 00:25:05.200 Again, oh, this is frustrating. 00:25:09.600 --> 00:25:10.240 You know what? 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:12.200 I may have hung up on my share instead of sharing. 00:25:13.020 --> 00:25:15.480 Um, let me, let me reshare this. 00:25:15.560 --> 00:25:15.980 My fault. 00:25:21.520 --> 00:25:22.120 There you go. 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:23.600 We need your help. 00:25:23.880 --> 00:25:28.780 We need your help getting the word out on the Digital Missionary Summit. 00:25:29.360 --> 00:25:31.540 We've got an ad campaign running right now. 00:25:31.540 --> 00:25:33.860 We're seeing, we're seeing attendance spikes come in. 00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:41.360 Uh, communications, uh, has been a little bit of a, um, to be honest, the idea of doing 00:25:41.360 --> 00:25:45.120 four conferences back to back to back to back the way that we're doing it right now, I'll 00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:45.760 never do it again. 00:25:46.560 --> 00:25:47.000 Never. 00:25:47.700 --> 00:25:53.900 Um, that was, uh, that was, uh, that was a, uh, a great idea with ill-conceived timing and 00:25:53.900 --> 00:25:57.420 overstretched a lot of our, our resources and capacity. 00:25:57.520 --> 00:25:59.400 And, and, and, and, and along the way, it's funny. 00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:01.860 Like, I'll just, I'll, I'll personally call myself out. 00:26:02.020 --> 00:26:09.120 We went from a digital missionary sending agency to a conference producing organization in this, 00:26:09.180 --> 00:26:09.760 in this shift. 00:26:09.840 --> 00:26:13.820 And, uh, some things we got lost, um, in the vision. 00:26:14.020 --> 00:26:15.500 We're going to get through this conference season. 00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:16.520 We're going to come back healthier. 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:17.840 We're learning things. 00:26:18.120 --> 00:26:23.860 If nothing else through the church digital, it's lots of beta experimentation, learning from 00:26:23.860 --> 00:26:25.260 mistakes and reiterating. 00:26:25.340 --> 00:26:29.180 And so excited about what 25 fall is going to look like. 00:26:29.180 --> 00:26:32.180 And also excited about what we're planning on 26. 00:26:32.820 --> 00:26:37.020 And so for us, um, here's what I need from you. 00:26:37.340 --> 00:26:41.400 I need your help getting the word out on these conferences. 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:49.020 And so Barbara and the team at word revolution, they did an incredible job creating media kits, 00:26:49.020 --> 00:26:55.020 shareable resources, graphics, copy, everything included for each of the conferences. 00:26:55.340 --> 00:27:02.080 So here's the information on the digital neighborhood, September 17th, opening at 10 AM. 00:27:02.620 --> 00:27:09.780 Uh, the speakers set up with the topics they're speaking on, uh, graphics, uh, and then information 00:27:09.780 --> 00:27:14.540 here, copy that you can just copy and paste straight in that is not showing up. 00:27:17.260 --> 00:27:19.120 I, I got it. 00:27:19.140 --> 00:27:20.480 It's a, it's a learning curve, man. 00:27:20.580 --> 00:27:22.260 This is, this is a, this is different. 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.540 So digital neighborhoods, uh, that all the information is here. 00:27:26.540 --> 00:27:31.840 The keynote speakers, the dates, stuff that you can copy and paste in shareable posts and 00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:34.280 graphics, copy that, save that on. 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:35.000 Here's copy. 00:27:35.100 --> 00:27:38.200 You can already put in, in social media to get it out there. 00:27:38.520 --> 00:27:46.540 Uh, and then tons of graphics, uh, trained you to lead where people actually live online. 00:27:46.540 --> 00:27:50.140 This fall, I'm going to grow in digital ministry. 00:27:50.300 --> 00:27:54.180 Join me and others shaping church in digital spaces. 00:27:54.400 --> 00:27:55.700 You are already sowing. 00:27:56.020 --> 00:27:59.140 Now grow for anyone turning chats into church. 00:27:59.620 --> 00:28:00.820 Uh, come with me. 00:28:00.900 --> 00:28:04.020 Like there's some, some beautiful digital disciples comes to life. 00:28:04.140 --> 00:28:06.200 So come with me. 00:28:06.780 --> 00:28:10.540 Um, all these graphics is just a click, a download, uh, away. 00:28:10.700 --> 00:28:16.120 And we're doing, we've got many others and here's the control alt recover one. 00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:19.960 You can see some of the graphics we've created here. 00:28:20.120 --> 00:28:25.420 Uh, you don't need to crash and reboot is for leaders who want to heal and lead well in digital 00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:25.960 spaces. 00:28:26.460 --> 00:28:28.840 Uh, we've already got copy created. 00:28:29.060 --> 00:28:32.520 There's tons of other graphics that are available for you to utilize. 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:39.900 Just lots of thought, you know, if, if nothing else, lots of thought went into, uh, from Barber 00:28:39.900 --> 00:28:46.600 and word revolution team on these, like, here's all the speakers for the European one, man, 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:47.700 this is crazy. 00:28:48.060 --> 00:28:49.280 So much good stuff. 00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:53.260 Um, digital missions in Europe starts here. 00:28:53.280 --> 00:28:54.160 So come with me. 00:28:54.760 --> 00:28:55.880 Um, I love this. 00:28:55.880 --> 00:29:00.640 If you lead online in Europe, you need this, uh, come with me and meet digital missionaries 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:01.260 across Europe. 00:29:01.520 --> 00:29:03.760 Uh, this is for Europe's digital pioneers. 00:29:04.040 --> 00:29:04.500 Join me. 00:29:04.920 --> 00:29:06.820 Europe's digital discipleship is rising. 00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:11.900 Step in like this is, this is the chance to highlight and draw attention and to bring 00:29:11.900 --> 00:29:16.460 people into a network that's supportive and friendly to the idea of missionaries and digital 00:29:16.460 --> 00:29:16.840 spaces. 00:29:16.840 --> 00:29:19.800 Now let's, let's highlight our gaming friends here. 00:29:20.580 --> 00:29:21.840 God bless the gamers. 00:29:22.460 --> 00:29:27.380 Um, here's the information, the keynotes, our own Andy made Jade live speaking. 00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:31.500 Um, we got to update Craig's out and, um, the other person's in. 00:29:31.520 --> 00:29:39.920 Um, Christian Ninja to replace, but Hey, every game is a gathering gamers who disciple, um, 00:29:40.100 --> 00:29:41.300 you know, is there, you're invited. 00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:42.040 The mission fields. 00:29:42.140 --> 00:29:43.580 You've all stepped in play with purpose. 00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:46.380 The game is on some graphics here. 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.920 Your digital pulpit is already live. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:52.760 Your stream is your pulpit movement leaders from inside the culture. 00:29:53.140 --> 00:29:55.540 Uh, the front lines are gathering. 00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:58.060 Love, uh, learn what works now. 00:29:58.120 --> 00:30:01.020 I love that because it's not even a, it's not even a pipe dream. 00:30:01.100 --> 00:30:02.320 It's the reality of where we are. 00:30:02.540 --> 00:30:08.060 And so all of this, I think the graphic was on the screen, digital neighborhood media kit 00:30:08.060 --> 00:30:08.800 and shareable graphics. 00:30:08.800 --> 00:30:15.500 Well, essentially all of the graphics right now are at share, S-H-A-R-E.thechurch.digital. 00:30:15.600 --> 00:30:16.820 Andy, I don't think I changed that. 00:30:17.320 --> 00:30:23.460 Um, and so that may not even be the right one, but it is S-H to go to the main page. 00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:29.400 It was a late drop, um, S-H-A-R-E.thechurch.digital. 00:30:29.620 --> 00:30:32.040 And that will send you to this page. 00:30:32.560 --> 00:30:34.080 Just look at, look how beautiful this is. 00:30:34.260 --> 00:30:35.620 Everything that's coming together. 00:30:36.460 --> 00:30:41.860 Barbara and her team figured out how to make four conferences meld, uh, and culturally brand 00:30:41.860 --> 00:30:44.080 into one beautiful schematic. 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:45.520 It is very cool to see that. 00:30:46.080 --> 00:30:47.340 Grab some of these graphics. 00:30:47.620 --> 00:30:49.700 Listen, last time we exploded. 00:30:50.120 --> 00:30:53.540 Um, we had 1,500 people sign up from 85 countries. 00:30:53.540 --> 00:30:57.080 We had 1,100 people, uh, day of show up for this thing. 00:30:57.360 --> 00:31:00.820 And, um, it was, it was a ton of friends of friends, man. 00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:03.460 Like, listen, the ad campaign brought people in. 00:31:03.560 --> 00:31:03.680 Yay. 00:31:04.340 --> 00:31:06.880 Hopefully the ad campaign will bring some people in. 00:31:07.020 --> 00:31:08.780 But the ones who stuck were friends of friends. 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:13.980 The ones who, who, who were, were part of this are the people that were one generation 00:31:13.980 --> 00:31:16.420 away, were one stop, skip, and a jump from somebody else. 00:31:16.660 --> 00:31:19.960 And so maybe take this opportunity to help us get the word out. 00:31:20.220 --> 00:31:26.640 Remember with every shareable graphic, uh, you drive people to the, uh, digital, uh, 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.620 missionary.digital website, www.missionary.digital. 00:31:30.620 --> 00:31:35.560 And all the registration pages are open on missionary digital. 00:31:35.560 --> 00:31:37.680 So we're excited about the digital missionaries. 00:31:37.780 --> 00:31:38.580 Yeah, that was it on that page. 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:42.840 We're excited about the digital missionary summit kicking off in three weeks, three, four, five, 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:43.260 six. 00:31:43.700 --> 00:31:49.940 Over the next six weeks, we'll be posting four conferences on, uh, on digital missions. 00:31:50.060 --> 00:31:52.780 And, um, yeah, here's coffee for you. 00:31:54.980 --> 00:31:55.980 It's going to be good. 00:31:57.020 --> 00:32:00.120 I'm going to, I'm going to be exhausted when it's over, but man, it's, it's, it's going 00:32:00.120 --> 00:32:00.500 to be good. 00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:03.260 Hey, I want to pivot on something here. 00:32:03.560 --> 00:32:06.480 Let me see if I can get this to work a little better than I have been. 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:08.740 Uh, so if I do that, it's going to remove it. 00:32:08.760 --> 00:32:12.340 And then it'll be in the back screen where I can just add it. 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:14.040 Yay. 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.120 And then it's there. 00:32:15.120 --> 00:32:15.860 So I can add it there. 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:18.920 I am learning how to interact with this thing. 00:32:19.040 --> 00:32:19.360 All right. 00:32:20.180 --> 00:32:21.800 So, all right. 00:32:22.600 --> 00:32:24.760 I threw some teases in there. 00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:26.420 I've got some exciting announcements. 00:32:26.580 --> 00:32:29.760 I got three exciting things coming up right now that I'm getting at one, two, three. 00:32:30.700 --> 00:32:37.940 And, uh, so the first thing I posted, I love this was a photo of, of, of Lex Luthor, uh, 00:32:37.940 --> 00:32:41.920 from the, yeah, thank you, uh, Utopia. 00:32:42.040 --> 00:32:42.540 I just saw that. 00:32:42.620 --> 00:32:43.180 Utopia is great. 00:32:43.280 --> 00:32:44.280 I like finding the ears, man. 00:32:44.340 --> 00:32:44.740 Thanks, man. 00:32:45.280 --> 00:32:49.860 Um, it's, um, Lex Luthor from the Smallville series. 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:50.840 I love Lex. 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:51.960 I can't remember the name of the actor. 00:32:52.180 --> 00:32:55.180 He's actually, he is, is now producing a series. 00:32:55.360 --> 00:32:56.980 He was, he was in Guardians of the Galaxy. 00:32:57.360 --> 00:32:57.980 Uh, I don't know. 00:32:58.020 --> 00:32:58.440 It doesn't matter. 00:32:58.560 --> 00:32:59.760 Brett Baum or something like that. 00:33:00.080 --> 00:33:05.760 Uh, but he's actually producing a series of, of audio Superman, like podcast type stuff now. 00:33:06.260 --> 00:33:07.540 And, um, it's awesome. 00:33:07.940 --> 00:33:11.680 But, um, we have, there's something that, that I want to share with you all. 00:33:12.420 --> 00:33:18.000 Now, this is, you know, if, if beta is too strong of a word, this is alpha. 00:33:18.600 --> 00:33:20.300 This is really early. 00:33:20.380 --> 00:33:21.620 This is behind the scenes. 00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:25.400 We're not actually like showing this in a big way. 00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:28.720 By the way, we've got a big announcement, a big surprise coming up. 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:32.640 I'm going to address that answer, that question that came up a couple minutes ago. 00:33:32.800 --> 00:33:37.860 But right now I want to share with you the super secret thing that, to be honest, 00:33:37.860 --> 00:33:43.920 like only a half dozen people, maybe 10 people have seen. 00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:49.080 And so those of you that are watching this live, those of you that are watching this on demand, 00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:52.800 I'm giving you a sneak peek right here. 00:33:52.840 --> 00:33:53.120 You ready? 00:33:59.600 --> 00:34:01.640 I don't think I stopped the screen share. 00:34:06.580 --> 00:34:06.980 Okay. 00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:08.640 We'll, we'll, uh, do it again. 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:13.540 It's cranky, Andy. 00:34:14.080 --> 00:34:15.400 It's a cranky software. 00:34:16.780 --> 00:34:17.480 I love it. 00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:17.980 It'll be great. 00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:20.020 All right. 00:34:21.680 --> 00:34:22.440 It's backstage. 00:34:22.700 --> 00:34:23.720 Now we're going to bring it on. 00:34:24.320 --> 00:34:25.060 Here you go. 00:34:26.020 --> 00:34:28.980 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Lex. 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:30.300 All right. 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:32.700 Look, here is the deal. 00:34:33.520 --> 00:34:41.200 Um, we have created, um, an AI, uh, based on the church digital. 00:34:41.740 --> 00:34:47.060 Barbara Carnero has been working on this for, uh, I guess a year or so. 00:34:47.380 --> 00:34:51.200 And we had, we had built this in chat GPT initially. 00:34:51.640 --> 00:35:13.760 And then we recently found, uh, a, uh, an organization, a company called Tapos, which encodes a large amount of audio, video, pog, blogs, books, podcasts, like any media source and, and, and digests it into an AI form. 00:35:13.980 --> 00:35:15.980 Now, look, you're, you're looking at a webpage. 00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:19.300 Uh, this is very, um, early in design. 00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:19.780 That's what I'm saying. 00:35:19.780 --> 00:35:22.260 And it's like alpha is like proof of concept here. 00:35:22.340 --> 00:35:22.860 Like, okay. 00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:40.960 Like we're not, we're not taking this public, but every, uh, all of the 700 plus blogs that we've written through the church digital, the two books that I wrote through the church digital, the 900 videos and audio podcasts that we've done through the church digital. 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:49.420 Some of you may remember Tom Pounders, um, oh my gosh, what was Tom's, uh, the TCD, um, bootcamp. 00:35:49.780 --> 00:35:55.960 Uh, digital bootcamp, even the stuff he did before when he was like, YM sidekick, like all, thank you. 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:56.580 I appreciate that. 00:35:56.620 --> 00:35:57.440 Everybody's saying sidekick. 00:35:57.740 --> 00:36:02.000 Um, all of that is in this AI. 00:36:02.340 --> 00:36:07.980 And so like, um, and so like I can come here, um, and just do a, do a search real quick. 00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:15.920 Um, tell me what ministry looks like in VR chat. 00:36:17.620 --> 00:36:26.760 And so it's doing that it's scanning the church digital's resources, and it's going to present, uh, it's gathering my thoughts. 00:36:26.860 --> 00:36:29.160 Lex is ministry and VR chat. 00:36:29.220 --> 00:36:30.360 It's about meeting people where they are. 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.720 Digital spaces crafted for connection. 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:34.540 It's real church with a digital twist. 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.400 Thanks, act two, fellowship, discipleship, and worship. 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:41.160 But instead of pews, you're in a room, a coffee shop, in VR chat, blah, blah, blah. 00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:41.860 You're not alone. 00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:46.300 TCD offers coaching resource framework to help you launch, keep pushing, sign the Lex. 00:36:46.560 --> 00:36:47.020 That's fun. 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:47.620 Okay. 00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:51.640 Hey, you know, I, I remember one of the things that I saw was asynchronous community, struggling 00:36:51.640 --> 00:36:52.720 with asynchronous community. 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:57.640 Um, yeah, it's a bug here. 00:36:57.700 --> 00:36:58.460 Let me reset that. 00:36:58.680 --> 00:37:01.980 There's a bug because I'm doing a screen share and it won't delete for some reason. 00:37:02.080 --> 00:37:02.600 I'm gonna screen share. 00:37:03.140 --> 00:37:13.540 What are, um, what are five ways I can improve, um, async community for discipleship? 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:16.320 It's funny, Andy. 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:21.780 I did, I did this search earlier and, um, it came up with some things. 00:37:21.860 --> 00:37:22.420 Great question. 00:37:22.640 --> 00:37:23.080 I'm gonna get it. 00:37:23.100 --> 00:37:24.040 Yeah, this is, it is good. 00:37:24.540 --> 00:37:25.200 Uh, great question. 00:37:25.300 --> 00:37:29.180 Building strong asynchronous community for disciples is crucial in our digital first word world. 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:31.180 Here are five practical ways to level it up. 00:37:31.620 --> 00:37:36.740 Regular check-ins, create dedicated spaces, facilitate asynchronous Bible community engagement, 00:37:37.260 --> 00:37:42.940 leverage media and resources, foster personal, uh, accountability and stories, encourage members 00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:44.440 to share their testimonies, blah, blah, blah. 00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:45.060 You can do this. 00:37:45.640 --> 00:37:46.400 Check this out. 00:37:46.460 --> 00:37:47.540 I'm going to do view resources. 00:37:47.700 --> 00:37:48.620 Andy, you're going to love this. 00:37:49.140 --> 00:37:53.600 Uh, episode 293, Andy Mage and building deeper relationships. 00:37:54.380 --> 00:37:59.380 That is the source of all of the, the material we just shared. 00:37:59.560 --> 00:38:05.100 So it pulled episode 293 and generated five. 00:38:05.200 --> 00:38:06.960 Andy actually in the call generated seven. 00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:08.920 I just didn't want to blah, blah, blah too much. 00:38:08.980 --> 00:38:10.980 So I did five here to generate that, to show that. 00:38:11.520 --> 00:38:12.300 Pretty cool, right? 00:38:13.260 --> 00:38:13.780 Now look at this. 00:38:13.780 --> 00:38:14.960 This, this, this, this is crazy. 00:38:15.180 --> 00:38:16.360 I, I, I, I love this. 00:38:16.900 --> 00:38:19.200 Um, let's, can I type down here? 00:38:19.600 --> 00:38:25.080 What, what does, I've never actually done this box before, so this will probably break on me. 00:38:25.540 --> 00:38:30.740 Um, what does calling look like, let's say personal calling. 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:37.560 Look like in digital space. 00:38:39.180 --> 00:38:42.860 What does personal calling look like in digital space? 00:38:48.820 --> 00:38:49.660 Great question. 00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:52.720 Personal calling starts with an awareness of impact. 00:38:53.200 --> 00:38:55.560 It's the gut feeling you're meant to do more, reach more online. 00:38:56.080 --> 00:38:56.640 Think about it. 00:38:56.660 --> 00:39:00.400 You begin noticing your online interactions spark questions, encouragement, or transformation. 00:39:00.620 --> 00:39:03.180 Maybe somebody reaches out or you feel prompted to comment more. 00:39:03.700 --> 00:39:04.580 Talks about calling. 00:39:05.160 --> 00:39:06.180 Let's view the sources on here. 00:39:06.260 --> 00:39:06.900 Let's see what we get. 00:39:07.220 --> 00:39:09.040 The church, digital, the church, digital, the church. 00:39:09.140 --> 00:39:09.940 Oh, it didn't come up. 00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:12.680 Man, I thought I was going to get that. 00:39:13.580 --> 00:39:14.680 Um, let me do one more. 00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:15.360 Let me do one more. 00:39:15.540 --> 00:39:17.480 I'm, I'm trying to force it to say something. 00:39:18.540 --> 00:39:21.200 AI never does what you want it to, but it always gives you the right answer. 00:39:22.300 --> 00:39:28.720 Um, how do I plan a church? 00:39:29.540 --> 00:39:30.780 Am I called to plan a church? 00:39:44.620 --> 00:39:45.840 Uh, great question. 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.220 The truth is calling is biblically rooted in God's spirit and his purpose for your life. 00:39:49.700 --> 00:39:51.760 Not everyone is called to be a church planter in a traditional sense. 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:57.420 Sometimes your primary God-given role is to disciple well where you are at work in your neighborhood or online. 00:39:57.980 --> 00:39:59.200 Uh, that is mission enough. 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:00.760 Uh, but let me go down to the sources. 00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:03.240 I don't know if you can see this. 00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:04.120 You see this red button? 00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:05.760 Exponential. 00:40:06.700 --> 00:40:07.940 So here's the deal. 00:40:07.940 --> 00:40:16.900 Uh, Exponential is also considering, hopefully, uh, sealing the deal, but is considering coming on with Tapos and bringing their library on. 00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:29.160 And so as of right now with this test, we're actually doing where we have access to all of Exponential's library and is melded together with what, what we're doing and offering. 00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:36.720 And so while we're speaking to a lot of digital assets and, you know, Jeff streaming, talking crazy about equipping a mobilization. 00:40:37.300 --> 00:40:37.420 Yeah. 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:50.780 Some of that of a stream that I did last year, 24 showed up and, and, uh, another stream in, in 24, but a lot of this, like Ralph Moore getting access to his content in, in, uh, in the system is beautiful. 00:40:50.780 --> 00:40:57.040 And so they're considering whether or not to stay, I don't know if it's going to work, but you sources of everything is available. 00:40:57.240 --> 00:41:01.140 But then off of all of these posts, you can create social media posts. 00:41:01.140 --> 00:41:05.000 You can do personal reflection prompts, um, teaching materials. 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:10.000 If you want it for a teaching, create a podcast episode of audio that it resonates through. 00:41:10.080 --> 00:41:14.500 Like there's a really rich engine around this. 00:41:14.500 --> 00:41:22.360 Now, uh, design of Tapos is, um, you know, not the strongest, uh, to say the most. 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:26.840 I just, I just unshared on that when I meant to share the screen that I was on, but the. 00:41:27.240 --> 00:41:33.720 Um, the roadmap of where they are and some of the things are improving on is, is going to be great in the near future. 00:41:33.720 --> 00:41:45.060 But I would say, I would say this, um, look for Lex, uh, in the very near future, uh, as a chat bot on our TCD website. 00:41:45.060 --> 00:41:56.680 Uh, in addition, we will be taking all the digital, digital missionary conferences, and we're going to be digitizing that into a separate, um, AI. 00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:58.020 Probably won't be named Lex. 00:41:58.100 --> 00:41:59.620 We'll have to figure out some name for that. 00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:03.960 Um, what was, what was Superman's, um, girlfriend? 00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:05.780 I'm, I'm so not a DC guy. 00:42:06.300 --> 00:42:08.120 Uh, the, the reporter, I don't know. 00:42:08.200 --> 00:42:11.100 Somebody will tell me in chat, but the idea is maybe we'll come up with some name. 00:42:11.160 --> 00:42:11.420 Lois. 00:42:11.620 --> 00:42:12.800 No, we're not going to do Lois. 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:13.240 Lois. 00:42:14.020 --> 00:42:14.760 Maybe Lane. 00:42:14.900 --> 00:42:15.180 I don't know. 00:42:15.220 --> 00:42:21.160 We'll figure it out, but we'll come up with some name for the, um, for the AI on that one. 00:42:21.600 --> 00:42:31.940 But I, you know, some of the things that, that I'm suggesting more than just a chat bot or a webpage, how do we get Lex into discord? 00:42:32.160 --> 00:42:33.460 Would it work as a discord plugin? 00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:38.960 How can people interact with Lex in a, on a discord server, on a discord channel? 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:47.340 How can we do that same thing into, um, WhatsApp so that we can interact with it on these asynchronous communities? 00:42:47.340 --> 00:42:53.040 Like that's our desire is to make Lex more engaging and more available for you all. 00:42:53.900 --> 00:42:55.840 And so Lex is, is one thing. 00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:59.940 Now that's, um, that's, that's maybe the most surprising thing. 00:43:00.100 --> 00:43:12.440 Uh, and I do want to thank Barbara, uh, for really starting the conversation with us on the idea of virtual, of, um, uh, AI agents and what it can do. 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:24.260 Like we, I was not to say that it wasn't on my radar, but it was not a priority in, in really seeing, um, the work that she initially did on Lex was so inspiring. 00:43:24.980 --> 00:43:31.760 Like, to be honest, like, and, uh, uh, the reason why we call it Lex is, you know, I, Lex is trying to take over the world, bro. 00:43:32.120 --> 00:43:39.860 And, and, and, and I firmly do believe that at some point, uh, you know, what we're doing with AI is, is going to go crazy and it's going to cause a major problem in some capacity. 00:43:40.580 --> 00:43:44.900 But, let's use it while we can, cause it's going to happen either way, in my opinion. 00:43:45.260 --> 00:43:48.100 And so, yeah, one day Lex is going to, you know, take over the world. 00:43:48.160 --> 00:43:50.540 But right now, I think he can help us make disciples. 00:43:52.120 --> 00:43:56.520 Uh, any hate mail on that, you can send it to Andy, A-N-D-Y, at church.digital. 00:43:56.900 --> 00:43:57.660 But let's do this. 00:43:57.700 --> 00:44:00.240 We've got a couple things and I'm running out of time in typical fashion. 00:44:01.160 --> 00:44:10.080 The question was, how can we get, how can I help other people do digital ministry? 00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:12.820 How can I help other people do digital ministry? 00:44:12.900 --> 00:44:14.160 That was the question from the survey. 00:44:14.620 --> 00:44:21.160 We don't want to do our own thing, but I just want to help somebody else do their thing. 00:44:21.620 --> 00:44:22.800 What does that look like? 00:44:23.460 --> 00:44:26.400 Um, and so, here's what we're doing through the church digital. 00:44:26.540 --> 00:44:28.520 This is volunteer.thechurch. 00:44:28.640 --> 00:44:29.560 Maybe volunteers. 00:44:29.740 --> 00:44:33.100 V-O-L-U-N-T-E-E-R-S.thechurch.digital. 00:44:33.340 --> 00:44:35.020 Volunteers.thechurch.digital. 00:44:35.100 --> 00:44:35.960 Redirect to this form. 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:39.740 Um, we are starting a, a projects team. 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:41.320 Uh, we're developing a database. 00:44:41.460 --> 00:44:46.460 We brought on, we brought on two or three project managers, really excited about this, um, to 00:44:46.460 --> 00:44:52.460 bring on some, some people to keep us focused on, and when I say people, I mean me, uh, to 00:44:52.460 --> 00:44:59.340 keep me focused on tasks, to keep me focused on, on, uh, vision, on goals, on things, and 00:44:59.340 --> 00:45:04.060 not follow the wild rabbit like I'm known to on occasion, or the shiny toy. 00:45:04.060 --> 00:45:12.700 And so, um, in, uh, uh, on the care side, we've, we've got Jose Santiago, uh, and Nash 00:45:12.700 --> 00:45:19.060 is coming in on the equipping and mobilization side, and in new to T-City, excited about this. 00:45:19.180 --> 00:45:25.740 We, we've got, uh, Purpose Antonio, uh, from Nigeria coming in, and, uh, Purpose has a strong 00:45:25.740 --> 00:45:31.280 background in, in project management, uh, in different formats, uh, agile, and, and blah, 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:31.500 blah, blah. 00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:36.500 Uh, but, um, one of, one of the things, and the thing that I love about Purpose is that 00:45:36.500 --> 00:45:43.080 he, it, what stood out in the interview process with him from Nigeria was his, yeah, Purpose 00:45:43.080 --> 00:45:46.440 is from Nigeria, uh, Utope, uh, you two should connect. 00:45:46.640 --> 00:45:51.460 Uh, he's not that far outside of Lagos, but I think he's on the opposite side of where I 00:45:51.460 --> 00:45:51.980 thought you were. 00:45:51.980 --> 00:46:02.200 Uh, anyway, Purpose, uh, was talking to me about, um, how you, you make, you fit project 00:46:02.200 --> 00:46:03.520 management into ministry. 00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:09.340 You don't make it tasks, you make it, uh, ministry-oriented, and you highlight the good 00:46:09.340 --> 00:46:12.680 that it's happening, and, and what it's benefiting, and things like that. 00:46:12.760 --> 00:46:17.620 And, and it was just this, it was this perfect moment of, okay, we need to figure out how to 00:46:17.620 --> 00:46:20.920 capture that culture from this guy named Purpose. 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:22.220 I almost started to call him a kid. 00:46:22.260 --> 00:46:22.820 He's not a kid. 00:46:22.820 --> 00:46:26.700 But from this guy in Nigeria, and figure out how to get it into the church digital. 00:46:27.080 --> 00:46:31.680 And, and what Purpose says right off the bat is, he's like, he's like harassing me, dude. 00:46:31.700 --> 00:46:32.100 I love it. 00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:32.580 I love it. 00:46:32.660 --> 00:46:36.180 He's, he's like, we need, we need, we need, we need a projects team, Jeff. 00:46:37.300 --> 00:46:39.160 Okay, Purpose, I'm doing a meeting on Tuesday. 00:46:39.420 --> 00:46:40.480 I'll, I'll, I'll make it in. 00:46:40.580 --> 00:46:42.540 And so we're developing a projects team. 00:46:42.680 --> 00:46:46.080 Listen, we do a ton of work inside the church digital. 00:46:46.340 --> 00:46:46.660 Fact. 00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:53.520 Um, we do, um, a ton of work, uh, outside, uh, as we're looking at expanding streaming networks 00:46:53.520 --> 00:46:56.240 and what we're doing with the podcast and new courses. 00:46:56.240 --> 00:47:01.220 Like there's a ton of assets that we want to develop running for conferences. 00:47:01.220 --> 00:47:04.700 There's a ton of, uh, you know, two conferences a year, major conferences a year. 00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:07.600 There's a ton of assets that, that we need help with. 00:47:07.600 --> 00:47:10.600 Um, and, but that's just us. 00:47:11.040 --> 00:47:18.580 There's also this whole other world of, um, how, how, listen, I'm, I'm a, my mom right 00:47:18.580 --> 00:47:22.300 now, Jeff, I'm ready to launch this Facebook group. 00:47:22.640 --> 00:47:23.380 God bless. 00:47:23.760 --> 00:47:27.180 Um, I need a logo for my Facebook group. 00:47:27.260 --> 00:47:28.980 How do I get a logo for a Facebook group? 00:47:29.020 --> 00:47:31.780 I'm not going to tell my mom to go get, use chat GPT. 00:47:31.860 --> 00:47:38.300 So I need somebody to do chat GPT for her or, you know, spend an hour and create a typeface 00:47:38.300 --> 00:47:42.820 logo that she can put in her profile and some sort of banner for the, for the top. 00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:47.300 Like that's a simple thing that, by the way, if you're interested in doing that, you can 00:47:47.300 --> 00:47:51.400 email me, Jeff, J E F F at the church.digital or fill out this form. 00:47:51.500 --> 00:47:56.300 Cause essentially what we want to do is we want to figure out what are some of the skill 00:47:56.300 --> 00:48:01.600 sets that you have, uh, website development, social media, content creation, graphic design, 00:48:01.980 --> 00:48:07.060 event planning, community outreach, technical, uh, building relationships, preaching, pulpit 00:48:07.060 --> 00:48:07.400 care. 00:48:07.500 --> 00:48:08.680 Is there anything that we missed? 00:48:09.420 --> 00:48:09.820 Yes. 00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:14.940 We're interested in you serving and helping and volunteering with the church digital. 00:48:15.580 --> 00:48:20.440 We're also interested in making this database available to people within our network. 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:25.200 And, and you know what, let's go back to that slide where there's like 47 things that are, 00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:25.780 that are hard. 00:48:26.940 --> 00:48:30.000 There's 47 answers to those within the network. 00:48:30.420 --> 00:48:34.420 I struggle with, um, asynchronous community. 00:48:34.820 --> 00:48:39.940 Well, the good news is between AI and, and maybe somebody else in the network, you can get 00:48:39.940 --> 00:48:41.040 coached on how to make it better. 00:48:43.120 --> 00:48:44.620 I really, I struggle with time. 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:49.260 Well, maybe you can recruit a couple of volunteers to come alongside you and fill in the stuff that 00:48:49.260 --> 00:48:52.620 you're weak on and some people that are willing to help you with that. 00:48:53.580 --> 00:49:02.880 And so part of what we're looking for right now is how to get more people involved, not 00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:08.540 only with the church digital, but involved in ministry overall within the network so that 00:49:08.540 --> 00:49:10.860 we can resource some of you out there that are struggling. 00:49:11.200 --> 00:49:13.700 How many weeks are you, are you looking to commit? 00:49:14.560 --> 00:49:17.880 Um, how comfortable are you used with online tools? 00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:22.040 Um, on a scale of one to 10, how excited are you to join the projects team? 00:49:22.640 --> 00:49:27.300 Uh, I would be interested in volunteering for other digital churches and missionaries should 00:49:27.300 --> 00:49:28.800 a tangible need arise. 00:49:29.200 --> 00:49:31.440 Anytime, sometimes, occasionally, nope. 00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:33.560 Uh, and anything else you want to tell us. 00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:35.700 Volunteered out to church.digital. 00:49:36.340 --> 00:49:36.740 Excited. 00:49:37.260 --> 00:49:38.520 Excited about the opportunities. 00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:40.760 Um, and it was, it was really cool. 00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:46.820 Like, um, you know, I know purpose is new with us, which is awesome, but purpose really kind 00:49:46.820 --> 00:49:49.720 of pushed on me to, to get there, to make this happen. 00:49:49.780 --> 00:49:53.920 And listen, I am, I always listen to people when they, when they push on me. 00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:57.420 Um, well, for the most part, cause it makes us, makes us better. 00:49:58.160 --> 00:49:58.480 All right. 00:49:59.080 --> 00:49:59.880 So here we go. 00:50:00.020 --> 00:50:01.040 I'm wrapping up on time. 00:50:01.120 --> 00:50:02.120 We're going to go a little long. 00:50:02.700 --> 00:50:05.900 There was, here's the, here's the last, the last of the surprises. 00:50:06.240 --> 00:50:08.260 So by the way, did I do a, let me see. 00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:11.080 Let's go back to the, there was a photo of Lex, right? 00:50:11.800 --> 00:50:14.660 There was a photo of, what was the second photo I did? 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:20.380 Um, oh, the projects, the science project. 00:50:20.520 --> 00:50:21.380 We just did that one. 00:50:21.640 --> 00:50:22.000 Yeah. 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:24.040 Because of the project that the team's called projects. 00:50:24.720 --> 00:50:30.140 Um, listen, when it's, when it's last minute, like late at night, it's not always the best 00:50:30.140 --> 00:50:30.960 ideas, but it's fun. 00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:37.680 And then the third graphic that I put in there was the right hand turn signal. 00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:39.780 And the fourth was a present. 00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:42.680 And so look, here's what we're doing. 00:50:42.680 --> 00:50:49.880 The church digital, we have a, uh, we developed a partnership that we're going to announce today. 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:51.740 Now we're going to roll this into the conferences. 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.180 We're excited about this, this sponsor. 00:50:54.640 --> 00:50:59.500 Um, and they ultimately, the sponsor is very excited about you. 00:50:59.840 --> 00:51:04.600 Uh, it's, it's funny in the grand scheme of things surrounding, surrounding digital, uh, 00:51:04.680 --> 00:51:07.320 ministry and digital, uh, discipleship. 00:51:08.300 --> 00:51:10.920 We've been friends with this organization for a long time. 00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:11.560 And it was funny. 00:51:11.620 --> 00:51:13.920 I was actually talking with some of their, their leadership. 00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:18.120 And it's like, I can't believe we've waited all this time to actually make something official. 00:51:18.120 --> 00:51:22.000 Like it was, it was kind of stupid between both of us that we didn't get to this point. 00:51:22.080 --> 00:51:32.180 But the, the result of this is that we, the church digital are able to give you guys and gals, anybody that's involved, heck, anybody that's interested. 00:51:32.180 --> 00:51:35.900 We're able to give you an incredible resource that that's going to help your ministry. 00:51:36.340 --> 00:51:39.420 Uh, I don't think I could oversell that any more than I just did. 00:51:39.780 --> 00:51:45.900 And so I'm going to hopefully click this button and it's going to show up on the screen and it disconnects. 00:51:45.900 --> 00:51:51.620 Andy, that's the second time I clicked the green thing and, and, and it, and it disconnects. 00:51:51.660 --> 00:51:55.680 So write that down as a bug and we'll let our friends know that they got a problem. 00:51:56.540 --> 00:51:58.520 Um, yeah, that's right. 00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:01.660 Hey, whoever, whoever did the Oprah, I am feeling the Oprah. 00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:03.040 Let's try it one more time. 00:52:03.160 --> 00:52:05.340 We're going to go, we're going to add to the stream. 00:52:05.380 --> 00:52:06.280 And here we are. 00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:13.140 We, the church digital have come up with a partnership with right now media. 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:21.280 Essentially all of anyone who's connected with the church digital has immediate access to all. 00:52:21.660 --> 00:52:24.440 Of right now media. 00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:30.680 And so, uh, I'm going to tell you how to do the, um, how to get your free account in a second. 00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:34.760 But if you don't know, don't know right now media, let me tell you right off the bat. 00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:40.540 Uh, if, if Netflix and Bible studies had a baby, that might be weird, but it would be right now media. 00:52:40.540 --> 00:52:48.160 Uh, and so this is a massive resource of, of digital discipleship from, uh, Christian authors, 00:52:48.320 --> 00:52:56.900 Christian pastors, uh, kids material, kids videos, like this is anything surrounding Bible studies for, 00:52:57.020 --> 00:52:59.840 for kids and adults, the young people. 00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:02.460 And it's all available in digital space. 00:53:02.460 --> 00:53:09.080 Like if you're looking here, popular teachers, uh, Kyle Adelman, Francis Chan, JD Greer, Joby Martin, 00:53:09.580 --> 00:53:14.780 Jenny Allen, John Mark Comer, Louie Giglio, Kyle Martin, and more. 00:53:15.020 --> 00:53:18.580 Like this is an incredible asset that's available globally. 00:53:18.820 --> 00:53:21.460 By the way, they are working into multiple languages. 00:53:21.720 --> 00:53:24.260 I'm not sure what the number actually is. 00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:31.940 They told me I forgot, but ideally this is going to be a huge, uh, resource that is now available 00:53:31.940 --> 00:53:36.700 for anyone that's connected, uh, with the church digital. 00:53:36.700 --> 00:53:44.480 And so what you need to do to get this is you will go to, uh, uh, I just blanked on it. 00:53:44.480 --> 00:53:51.940 Uh, the church.digital slash right now media, the church.digital slash right now media. 00:53:51.940 --> 00:53:54.560 And, and you can create an account there. 00:53:54.660 --> 00:53:56.020 You'll see the TCD logo. 00:53:56.240 --> 00:53:57.420 I'm in Miami, Florida. 00:53:57.420 --> 00:54:00.400 So therefore I think the entire organization is Miami, Florida. 00:54:00.600 --> 00:54:01.500 Sorry, Andy. 00:54:01.740 --> 00:54:03.360 Um, we'll get into Odessa later. 00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:08.820 Actually, I thought about telling Odessa Ukraine just to kind of be funny, but the guy didn't think 00:54:08.820 --> 00:54:09.280 that was funny. 00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:18.720 But we're excited about the idea of, of right now media and, and coming on board with that. 00:54:19.020 --> 00:54:22.020 The accounts are free for personal use. 00:54:22.020 --> 00:54:25.320 And so the church digital cleared it with the board leadership. 00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:25.940 We're excited. 00:54:26.080 --> 00:54:29.840 We pay a nominal fee, uh, to make that happen. 00:54:29.900 --> 00:54:31.600 Like I couldn't believe how cheap it was. 00:54:31.600 --> 00:54:36.340 And so feel free to, to, you know, give out that URL. 00:54:36.340 --> 00:54:37.500 Like it's candy, man. 00:54:37.500 --> 00:54:42.240 Uh, uh, the church.digital slash right now media. 00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:44.460 Feel free to sign up for your account. 00:54:44.640 --> 00:54:46.140 Uh, no limits on it. 00:54:46.860 --> 00:54:49.500 Um, there, there's funny, there's a group functionality. 00:54:49.680 --> 00:54:50.460 I was looking at the backend. 00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:52.020 There's a group functionality. 00:54:52.020 --> 00:54:53.500 I'm not sure that we're going to turn on. 00:54:53.860 --> 00:54:57.780 Uh, we will have a, let me see if I can get this part to work. 00:54:58.500 --> 00:54:59.920 I'll have to log in real quick. 00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:02.140 Um, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 00:55:09.920 --> 00:55:11.060 That's not the right password. 00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:12.540 Don't you hate it when you do that? 00:55:12.620 --> 00:55:17.760 You bunch of people watching your type and you can't typing, talking, and being on camera at the same time. 00:55:17.760 --> 00:55:18.640 It's very hard. 00:55:20.940 --> 00:55:22.140 I can play a video game. 00:55:22.200 --> 00:55:23.480 I've done that a couple of times streaming. 00:55:24.620 --> 00:55:27.780 Um, but talking is a different bird for me. 00:55:28.500 --> 00:55:28.920 All right. 00:55:28.940 --> 00:55:34.000 Look, and by the way, if somebody's like, Hey, I'm looking for a place to volunteer, it should be a great place to start. 00:55:34.580 --> 00:55:37.880 Um, we have the ability to create a custom library with the church digital. 00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:43.620 And so when you're logged in and you click the church digital, it comes to this custom library page. 00:55:43.780 --> 00:55:48.380 And so I went ahead and I just threw in Jeff's picks because I love Francis Chan. 00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:54.760 Francis Chan doing the acts, uh, study on acts, hugely impactful. 00:55:55.140 --> 00:56:00.940 His book acts, I think it's called acts, um, was life-changing for me. 00:56:01.260 --> 00:56:03.140 Uh, eyeopening for me in many ways. 00:56:03.580 --> 00:56:06.220 Uh, his study on James has been incredible in my life. 00:56:06.520 --> 00:56:10.500 Uh, I don't know that I've done this, but, uh, a vision for the global church. 00:56:10.780 --> 00:56:12.040 Francis Chan's headlining it. 00:56:12.380 --> 00:56:14.340 Yeah, it might be interesting for y'all to take a look at. 00:56:14.720 --> 00:56:16.580 And so listen, I've got Jeff's picks here. 00:56:16.720 --> 00:56:20.160 In the future, we're going to have curated picks and different lists from that. 00:56:20.220 --> 00:56:23.260 And so if some volunteer out there is like, Hey, you know what? 00:56:23.540 --> 00:56:24.820 I love digital Bible studies. 00:56:24.900 --> 00:56:26.620 I'd love to help the church digital figure this out. 00:56:27.960 --> 00:56:29.500 Email Jeff at the church digital. 00:56:29.680 --> 00:56:32.860 If you're like, I hate Bible studies and right now media is stupid. 00:56:33.380 --> 00:56:34.840 Email Andy at the church digital. 00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:37.160 That will be great. 00:56:38.360 --> 00:56:38.840 Whew! 00:56:39.140 --> 00:56:40.060 Man, I'm tired. 00:56:40.320 --> 00:56:40.940 I'm trying to think. 00:56:41.080 --> 00:56:42.680 Andy, did I cover everything I was supposed to cover? 00:56:45.640 --> 00:56:46.120 Yes. 00:56:46.700 --> 00:56:48.780 Andy is saying thumbs up. 00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.620 So listen, we are, are good to go. 00:56:53.180 --> 00:56:54.060 All of these links. 00:56:54.180 --> 00:57:03.840 If you're watching on demand, we will be having these, uh, links available in the, in the, um, description in YouTube. 00:57:04.100 --> 00:57:05.160 Easy to click. 00:57:05.240 --> 00:57:06.320 Uh, let's engage. 00:57:06.780 --> 00:57:09.980 Uh, help us share those graphics for the conference. 00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:13.040 Hype up graphics in the conference and what you're doing. 00:57:13.620 --> 00:57:18.080 Um, fill out the survey, survey at the survey.thechurch.digital. 00:57:18.220 --> 00:57:20.840 Get connected to the volunteer team. 00:57:20.980 --> 00:57:23.260 Right now, media, incredible asset. 00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:26.380 Play around with Lex as your heart desires. 00:57:27.040 --> 00:57:38.480 Um, but this is one of many ways we, the church digital are trying to help empower, uh, equip and empower people to do ministry. 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:52.860 And ministry and digital space globally, um, and it's, it's wonderful for me when I have conversations with, uh, missions organizations who see vision in what you're doing and see vision in what we're doing. 00:57:53.280 --> 00:57:54.020 It was funny. 00:57:54.080 --> 00:57:57.740 I had, uh, I just, today I signed to another church for a contract. 00:57:57.740 --> 00:58:01.080 I'm doing some AVL coaching for them, physical church. 00:58:01.700 --> 00:58:07.020 And, um, and the pastor, the pastor's known me for a couple of weeks. 00:58:07.420 --> 00:58:14.720 Cause I've been doing some AVL installs and they're asking me to step up in a temporary time to be like a temporary leader for in the church. 00:58:15.260 --> 00:58:20.960 Uh, and, and, uh, the pastor's like, I just looked at your website and figured out what you actually do. 00:58:21.700 --> 00:58:23.900 And I was like, Oh, Oh no, here it comes. 00:58:24.120 --> 00:58:31.760 Like that is the moment in my life where it's like, okay, it's, it's either going to be hellfire and brimstone or it's going to be, that's really cool. 00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:35.020 And the way this guy did it is he's kind of a dry personality. 00:58:35.020 --> 00:58:41.200 I literally had no idea where I was going and he's like, I can't believe you're planning churches and virtual reality and discord. 00:58:41.580 --> 00:58:43.620 And he's like, my kids would love this. 00:58:43.620 --> 00:58:49.540 And we need to do like, he just, he saw, he's a guy who saw the vision and it just, it clicked for him. 00:58:50.180 --> 00:58:51.660 And it's so beautiful. 00:58:51.780 --> 00:58:59.500 I hope you have that experience too, where, where you talk with someone and they see the vision of it and they, they want to be a part of it. 00:58:59.860 --> 00:59:05.480 And if, and if, if you don't have that in your digital ministry life, that will be my prayer for you. 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:20.580 That someone, that someone you will meet in the next week or so will have that vision that you will be given a divine opportunity by God to share a vision of what God has called you to do. 00:59:20.700 --> 00:59:24.300 And someone will see it and want to be a part. 00:59:26.080 --> 00:59:28.880 Hey, we started awkward. 00:59:29.600 --> 00:59:32.880 Pastor D, Yatope, everybody else who's around. 00:59:33.240 --> 00:59:35.680 Let me, let me jump on attendees and see who's here. 00:59:36.540 --> 00:59:36.980 Purpose. 00:59:37.220 --> 00:59:37.980 Man, glad you're here. 00:59:38.100 --> 00:59:41.380 Pastor D, Simon, Judy, Gary. 00:59:41.520 --> 00:59:43.260 Gary, I meant to connect with you earlier. 00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:49.580 Didn't get a chance to Paul, Ian, Leighton, Flatcap, Micah, Tariq, Micah, stirring the pot. 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:51.940 That's, that's, that's honestly, that's what I love about Micah. 00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:54.380 Micah, like, hey, I see what you're doing. 00:59:54.740 --> 00:59:55.680 Drop a bomb in there. 00:59:55.740 --> 00:59:56.720 Okay, you clean it up now. 00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:57.480 That's beautiful. 00:59:57.600 --> 00:59:59.780 Tariq, Emmanuel, DeMarcus, Melanie. 01:00:00.900 --> 01:00:03.480 We've, we've got some, Tariq, Toki. 01:00:03.620 --> 01:00:04.580 I don't, I don't, I don't know. 01:00:04.640 --> 01:00:05.200 Glad you're a barber. 01:00:05.300 --> 01:00:06.020 Thanks for coming in. 01:00:06.700 --> 01:00:09.120 Steve, Anesh, everybody that's in. 01:00:09.120 --> 01:00:11.980 Listen, it's an exciting season for the church digital. 01:00:12.440 --> 01:00:13.440 So take these next steps. 01:00:13.780 --> 01:00:21.040 Help us as we push the ball forward with conferences, get more awareness, get more connected to, 01:00:21.120 --> 01:00:26.460 to partners globally and start to equip and empower more people to be digital missionaries globally. 01:00:26.880 --> 01:00:28.440 I did a lot of talking this one. 01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:29.240 Sorry. 01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:32.320 Hopefully the conference is stable for you. 01:00:32.660 --> 01:00:33.940 I'm going to pray in a second. 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:37.380 But before we go, here's what we're going to do. 01:00:37.820 --> 01:00:40.120 The lobbies are open. 01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:42.540 And so the digital lobby should be open. 01:00:42.700 --> 01:00:46.220 Andy hopefully can make sure in the background that the lobbies are open and running. 01:00:46.900 --> 01:00:50.360 And at the same time, there's a breakout room called Actor Party. 01:00:51.440 --> 01:01:00.300 And so I would love you all to grab a table, have a conversation, meet some people, go over to the, to the, you know, at the lobby, at the lobby. 01:01:00.580 --> 01:01:02.280 I think the software calls it the lounge. 01:01:02.360 --> 01:01:04.640 We probably need to adapt our language to lounge. 01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:06.220 Go hang out in the lounge. 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:07.660 Alter Live called it lobby. 01:01:08.100 --> 01:01:09.240 Go hang out in the lounge. 01:01:09.380 --> 01:01:09.940 Grab a table. 01:01:10.060 --> 01:01:10.780 Talk to somebody. 01:01:11.240 --> 01:01:12.300 Swing over to the breakout. 01:01:12.540 --> 01:01:13.380 See how that works. 01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:17.200 Just like, you know, figure the technology out. 01:01:17.580 --> 01:01:21.220 We will be in this platform for the conferences starting in a couple weeks. 01:01:21.220 --> 01:01:25.120 But for now, let me pray us out and we will go. 01:01:25.180 --> 01:01:27.820 Heavenly Father, God, thank you for this group. 01:01:27.980 --> 01:01:35.960 Thank you for, thank you for people that are called to you in unique ways. 01:01:36.660 --> 01:01:51.000 Thank you for the pioneers, the influencers, the out-of-the-box thinkers, the people, well, just the normal people that are called to do something you called, you directed them to do. 01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:53.820 Thank you for their direction and purpose. 01:01:53.940 --> 01:01:59.800 God, help us, the Church Digital, as we continue to equip and mobilize digital missionaries. 01:01:59.800 --> 01:02:07.380 Help us as we resource others to come alongside and help the existing work that's happening globally. 01:02:07.740 --> 01:02:10.780 Thank you for loving us and using us in the way that you do. 01:02:10.840 --> 01:02:11.440 In your name we pray. 01:02:12.040 --> 01:02:12.260 Amen. 01:02:13.140 --> 01:02:13.540 Awesome. 01:02:14.260 --> 01:02:15.020 Thanks, everybody. 01:02:15.140 --> 01:02:15.760 Have a great one. 01:02:15.820 --> 01:02:19.800 Hang out in the lounge in the breakout room, and I'll see you later. 01:02:24.520 --> 01:02:26.560 I actually have no idea how to hang up right now. 01:02:26.640 --> 01:02:27.460 Is it the red button? 01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:28.860 I'm just going to hit the red button. 01:02:29.340 --> 01:02:30.100 Let's see what happens. 01:02:59.340 --> 01:03:00.100 Thank you. 01:03:29.340 --> 01:03:30.100 I'm just going to hit the red button. 01:03:30.100 --> 01:03:30.340 I'm just going to hit the red button. 01:03:30.340 --> 01:03:31.340 I'm just going to hit the red button. 01:03:31.340 --> 01:03:32.340 I'm just going to hit the red button. 01:03:32.340 --> 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