The Pro Church Tools Show with Brady Shearer

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Question #1 (2:15): Brady, what's the story behind your Bible College experience? Why did you never become a pastor?

Question #2 (20:43): If you work at your church full-time, what is your day off each week?

Question #3 (36:42): How does a church recover in the social media climate when there is a viral video that tries to cancel the church for false reasons? Our church has gotten many death threats and harassment via phone, email, and especially social media. We’ve had to turn comments off on most things. I was wondering if you had any wisdom!

Question #4 (50:17): The two of you seem to have such good chemistry.  We would like to know what is it you have most in common, versus not so common.


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Question #1 (05:24): What are your thoughts on Threads? Is Meta doing too much? How can churches utilize this new platform?

Question #2 (20:00): Love the new podcast studio. Can you talk about the setup?

Question #3 (28:28): On The Social Media Church Podcast this week, they talked about developing an AI policy similar to how you should have a social media policy. Is that something you've processed at all yet? If so, what would you include in a policy like that?

Question #4 (34:36): You have mentioned that you are breaking into the world of watches! (Happy dance!)I was skeptical until you mentioned Wolf 1834 watch cases! What are you looking at Watch wise and have you made any purchases?

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Question #1 (1:49): Responding to Christian comments like "just preach the gospel!"

Question #2 (7:30): We've long used connection cards at our church for people to take next steps, digitally and physically. And then other signup pages or PCO forms for people to take other steps. I love your view of next steps, and the central hub concept, I've been trying to get buy-in across the board on this and utilizing our website's main page as a central hub. Here in lies my question. I know your thoughts behind mass texting as a church, very limited if at all. What are your thoughts on engaging people through text in keywords and one-on-one follow up for next steps, all through text?

Question #3 (15:45): Will there be a backlash against generative AI where people intentionally move offline?

Question #4 (24:22): What are your beige flags?

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Question #1 (02:27): If a church wants to do a podcast, what should they consider? (Tech, Content, labor, red flags, etc.)

Question #2 (15:58): I'm amazed at the number of churches that do photo dumps on social media. There is the wide spread belief that you should share everything you snap. Just curious of your opinion as to the optimal number of pics to include in a post. Also, am I wrong to feel a bit squeamish about posting pics of people praying or worshiping? Are there any studies on how non-believers react to these? Are we invading someone's personal moment even if it's experienced in corporate worship? 

Question #3 (25:45): Are there any "best practices" you guys talk about on the pod/social/website/YouTube that you DON'T do at the church you pastor? If so why?

Question #4 (32:24): What's WRONG lately?

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