CNLP 662 | Brad Hill On How to Double Your Outreach and Reach More People, The NIHITO Mantra, and The Early Adopter Advantage in the Future of Tech and AI
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Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Brad Hill, Chief Solutions Officer at Gloo and former President of Ministry Brands, discusses how to double your church outreach and reach more people, the NIHITO principle, and the early adopter advantage in the future of tech and AI.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Changes in church approach to ministry (00:06:45)
Early adopters in tech (00:07:22)
Early Adopters and Innovation (00:15:41)
Laggards and Risk Tolerance (00:18:26)
Tech Resources and Ministry (00:23:26)
Rapid Scale and Acquisitions (00:27:31)
Challenges in Christian Giving (00:34:35)
The Evolution of the Church (00:36:44)
The Role of Technology in the Church (00:41:23)
Future Possibilities with AI (00:46:45)
The potential of AI in ministry (00:49:14)
Challenges and opportunities in embracing AI (00:51:34)
Effectiveness of church outreach (00:55:30)
Challenges in following up on outreach leads (00:59:25)
Improving conversion rate in outreach (01:03:59)
Engaging Volunteers in Digital First Response (01:07:01)
Timeliness in Responding (01:09:23)
Importance of Customer Retention (01:11:32)
Cultivating Curiosity and Creativity (01:14:21)
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | Only 25% of churches in 2023 experienced growth over 2022. |
| 0:10.0 | So if you, if your church, another way to say that is if your church grew in 2023, you're in the top 25 percent. |
| 0:16.0 | Most were flat if not declining. The more sobering stat I believe some pastors are paying attention to this I think too few are paying attention is |
| 0:26.0 | most of the so-called growth or new attenders we see are really just transfer growth. |
| 0:32.2 | That's not a new trend. |
| 0:34.0 | That was in place before COVID, but it's accelerating. |
| 0:36.0 | You know, the best I can see today |
| 0:38.0 | is about 80% of church growth is transfer growth. |
| 0:42.0 | There's entire denominations. church growth is transfer growth. |
| 0:45.6 | There's entire denominations where, and I won't name names not to single anybody out, |
| 0:48.0 | but you know, large denomination I recently was studying. |
| 0:50.5 | 48% of the, of the church churches in that denomination experience no converts or baptisms in the last year. Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Carrie here and I hope our time |
| 1:07.0 | together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. Well if you are |
| 1:11.2 | interested in reaching more people online, maybe doubling or more the outreach at your church. |
| 1:18.0 | Also, if you're interested in thinking through the future of tech AI and well let's talk about why people are |
| 1:27.1 | ready to connect with you probably more than you think well then you come to the |
| 1:32.4 | right place because we got Brad Hill on the |
| 1:34.4 | podcast today and I'm so excited for you to hear this conversation that I have |
| 1:39.6 | with Brad. We're going to be talking about all those things and more in today's episode is brought to you by compassion and by generis. |
| 1:46.0 | Well, I got to tell you I just got back from a week in Guatemala with compassion, blown away by what they do. I'll tell you more about that but if you |
| 1:54.7 | want to learn more go to compassion.com slash carry and by generis you know generis is on a |
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