CNLP 710 | Craig Groeschel Breaks Down How He's Adapting His Communication and Preaching for Digital Ministry, AI, and Social Media, The Power of Extreme Habits and Behaviors, and Why People Are Bored With Cool Church
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Craig Groeschel breaks down how he's changing and adapting his preaching and communication style for digital ministry, AI, and social media.
Plus, he shares the power of extreme habits, how to motivate yourself and others during successful seasons, and why people are bored with 'cool church' and what to do about it.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | I don't see the thumbnail. |
| 0:04.4 | Someone else chooses that photo, |
| 0:05.6 | so it's not that controlling for me. |
| 0:08.0 | And I don't have time to care about what I look like everywhere. |
| 0:12.1 | But what I do have time to care about is, |
| 0:14.9 | do I believe that this title is going to be the most effective to draw clicks? |
| 0:19.8 | Because the difference can be, |
| 0:21.3 | you know, it can be hundreds of thousands of views. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Carrie here. I am so glad you joined us today. |
| 0:33.4 | Today we have got the one and only Craig Grishell back. I'm so excited to have him and we go right into how he is. |
| 0:42.2 | After 29 years, adapting his communication and preaching style for digital ministry, AI, and social media, we get into the weeds with this. |
| 0:50.5 | I think you're really going to appreciate it. He's one of the best. And one of the reasons that Craig is one of the best is he never rests. I mean, yeah, he sleeps. I get it. |
| 1:00.3 | But I mean, he's always growing, always learning. We talk about the power of extreme habits and go |
| 1:05.3 | into a couple of extreme habits he has, a couple of extreme behaviors, and why people are bored |
| 1:10.3 | with cool church. we get into the |
| 1:12.0 | model what is he tweaking what is he changing at life church and a whole lot more hey shout out to |
| 1:17.0 | doy on spotify doy left a comment on my interview with noah heron and shared that they're in |
| 1:21.4 | the midst of church planting right now themselves congrats on hitting 600 dewey that's amazing |
| 1:26.8 | we're cheering for you. Love it when |
| 1:29.2 | leaders connect with us. And wherever you're listening to this on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, |
| 1:34.5 | where I listen to my podcast or wherever, we're really glad that you joined us today. And hey, |
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