The Executive Pastor Podcast Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-executive-pastor-podcast The Executive Pastor Podcast helps church leaders think clearly, lead courageously, and move their teams toward radical alignment to the Great Commission. © 2026 Intentional Churches dd4aba67-6e7f-5d10-85fb-db2261c5843d yes en Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:28:36 -0700 Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:29:17 -0700 https://executivepastor.io https://img.transistorcdn.com/qF343vq79d_qAZs2v923XZ29GJyi49Dlnil5Vsodij4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80ODIx/NmI1MDVkNTllMjYx/ZTU0MzljNzI5YmJl/NzBjZS5wbmc.jpg The Executive Pastor Podcast https://executivepastor.io episodic Intentional Churches The Executive Pastor Podcast helps church leaders think clearly, lead courageously, and move their teams toward radical alignment to the Great Commission. The Executive Pastor Podcast helps church leaders think clearly, lead courageously, and move their teams toward radical alignment to the Great Commission.. Executive Pastor, Church Director, Associate Pastor, Church Operations, Minister of Administration Intentional Churches No No How to Kill Your Admin Busywork With AI 1 1 3 3 How to Kill Your Admin Busywork With AI full 523579d0-532b-41b9-9a00-61b245a555f9 https://share.transistor.fm/s/bd07602c Newsletters, bulletins, announcements, and routine emails eat hours that never move the mission. In this episode, Doug and Bart break down how to draft one message with AI and turn it into five channel-ready formats in minutes, plus the one review step you can never skip.

In this episode:

1. The reusable prompt template for church comms
2. Repurposing one message into five formats
3. Review-and-personalize: the human step you can't skip

This week's challenge: build one reusable prompt template with your team and use it on your next multi-channel announcement.

Subscribe for a new episode every Tuesday, practical tactics for Executive Pastors on staffing, budgeting, AI adoption, and leading well.

More episodes and resources: https://executivepastor.io

Timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Why church staff are already leaning into AI
1:08 The real cost: writing the same message five different ways
1:41 What a prompt is, and the goal for this episode
2:21 The prompt framework: audience, purpose, key facts, tone, length, one CTA
3:39 Saving and reusing templates across your team
4:06 The one-to-many method: write the longest version first
4:58 Turning one draft into five formats
6:17 The step you can't skip: review and personalize
7:54 This week's challenge and a look at episode 4
8:46 Outro

]]> Newsletters, bulletins, announcements, and routine emails eat hours that never move the mission. In this episode, Doug and Bart break down how to draft one message with AI and turn it into five channel-ready formats in minutes, plus the one review step you can never skip.

In this episode:

1. The reusable prompt template for church comms
2. Repurposing one message into five formats
3. Review-and-personalize: the human step you can't skip

This week's challenge: build one reusable prompt template with your team and use it on your next multi-channel announcement.

Subscribe for a new episode every Tuesday, practical tactics for Executive Pastors on staffing, budgeting, AI adoption, and leading well.

More episodes and resources: https://executivepastor.io

Timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Why church staff are already leaning into AI
1:08 The real cost: writing the same message five different ways
1:41 What a prompt is, and the goal for this episode
2:21 The prompt framework: audience, purpose, key facts, tone, length, one CTA
3:39 Saving and reusing templates across your team
4:06 The one-to-many method: write the longest version first
4:58 Turning one draft into five formats
6:17 The step you can't skip: review and personalize
7:54 This week's challenge and a look at episode 4
8:46 Outro

]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:28:32 -0700 Intentional Churches Intentional Churches 538 Newsletters, bulletins, announcements, and routine emails eat hours that never move the mission. In this episode, Doug and Bart break down how to draft one message with AI and turn it into five channel-ready formats in minutes, plus the one review step you can never skip.

In this episode:

1. The reusable prompt template for church comms
2. Repurposing one message into five formats
3. Review-and-personalize: the human step you can't skip

This week's challenge: build one reusable prompt template with your team and use it on your next multi-channel announcement.

Subscribe for a new episode every Tuesday, practical tactics for Executive Pastors on staffing, budgeting, AI adoption, and leading well.

More episodes and resources: https://executivepastor.io

Timeline:
0:00 Intro
0:47 Why church staff are already leaning into AI
1:08 The real cost: writing the same message five different ways
1:41 What a prompt is, and the goal for this episode
2:21 The prompt framework: audience, purpose, key facts, tone, length, one CTA
3:39 Saving and reusing templates across your team
4:06 The one-to-many method: write the longest version first
4:58 Turning one draft into five formats
6:17 The step you can't skip: review and personalize
7:54 This week's challenge and a look at episode 4
8:46 Outro

]]> Executive Pastor, Church Director, Associate Pastor, Church Operations, Minister of Administration No How to Write a Church AI Policy Before You Need One 1 1 2 2 How to Write a Church AI Policy Before You Need One full 9a9fa05b-37f6-4e8f-8d88-8699451f6a8d https://share.transistor.fm/s/3c530ef4 Fewer than 5% of churches have an AI policy. Meanwhile, everyone on your staff is already using AI. That gap is where the messes happen: private member data pasted into chatbots, pastoral messages that read like form letters, and a free-for-all with no guardrails.

In this episode, Doug Parks and Bart Rendel (co-founders of Intentional Churches) walk through a practical one-page AI policy outline you can draft before the episode is even over. You'll learn what should never go into a prompt (and the simple "postcard test" to teach your staff), when to disclose that AI was involved in a communication, and how to build green light, red light, and caution lists that free your team to use AI instead of freezing them.

Plus: why the AI companies themselves are racing to put policies in place, and what recent stories of models "breaking out" mean for how carefully churches should handle their data.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Cold open: even the AI companies are racing to write policies 
00:33 What percentage of churches actually have an AI policy? 
01:30 The risk: executive pastors will be cleaning up AI messes for years 
02:12 Bart's icebreaker: everyone on your team is already using it 
03:23 The goal: a one-page AI policy you can draft today 
03:33 Policy item #1: what to NEVER paste into a prompt 
04:15 What GPT actually stands for, and why your data trains the model 04:56 The postcard test: if you wouldn't mail it, don't prompt it 
05:43 When AI "breaks out": recent stories and why caution matters 06:43 Policy item #2: disclosure, when to tell people AI was involved 07:45 The embarrassment test: if admitting it would embarrass you, don't use it 
07:54 Policy item #3: green light, red light, and caution lists 
09:20 "Ones and zeros": once it's digitized, it's out there 
10:24 Recap + your challenge: write your AI policy this week 
10:58 Resources at executivepastor.io

Executive Pastor resources: https://executivepastor.io 
Intentional Churches: https://intentionalchurches.com

]]> Fewer than 5% of churches have an AI policy. Meanwhile, everyone on your staff is already using AI. That gap is where the messes happen: private member data pasted into chatbots, pastoral messages that read like form letters, and a free-for-all with no guardrails.

In this episode, Doug Parks and Bart Rendel (co-founders of Intentional Churches) walk through a practical one-page AI policy outline you can draft before the episode is even over. You'll learn what should never go into a prompt (and the simple "postcard test" to teach your staff), when to disclose that AI was involved in a communication, and how to build green light, red light, and caution lists that free your team to use AI instead of freezing them.

Plus: why the AI companies themselves are racing to put policies in place, and what recent stories of models "breaking out" mean for how carefully churches should handle their data.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Cold open: even the AI companies are racing to write policies 
00:33 What percentage of churches actually have an AI policy? 
01:30 The risk: executive pastors will be cleaning up AI messes for years 
02:12 Bart's icebreaker: everyone on your team is already using it 
03:23 The goal: a one-page AI policy you can draft today 
03:33 Policy item #1: what to NEVER paste into a prompt 
04:15 What GPT actually stands for, and why your data trains the model 04:56 The postcard test: if you wouldn't mail it, don't prompt it 
05:43 When AI "breaks out": recent stories and why caution matters 06:43 Policy item #2: disclosure, when to tell people AI was involved 07:45 The embarrassment test: if admitting it would embarrass you, don't use it 
07:54 Policy item #3: green light, red light, and caution lists 
09:20 "Ones and zeros": once it's digitized, it's out there 
10:24 Recap + your challenge: write your AI policy this week 
10:58 Resources at executivepastor.io

Executive Pastor resources: https://executivepastor.io 
Intentional Churches: https://intentionalchurches.com

]]> Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:31:44 -0700 Intentional Churches Intentional Churches 696 Fewer than 5% of churches have an AI policy. Meanwhile, everyone on your staff is already using AI. That gap is where the messes happen: private member data pasted into chatbots, pastoral messages that read like form letters, and a free-for-all with no guardrails.

In this episode, Doug Parks and Bart Rendel (co-founders of Intentional Churches) walk through a practical one-page AI policy outline you can draft before the episode is even over. You'll learn what should never go into a prompt (and the simple "postcard test" to teach your staff), when to disclose that AI was involved in a communication, and how to build green light, red light, and caution lists that free your team to use AI instead of freezing them.

Plus: why the AI companies themselves are racing to put policies in place, and what recent stories of models "breaking out" mean for how carefully churches should handle their data.

TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Cold open: even the AI companies are racing to write policies 
00:33 What percentage of churches actually have an AI policy? 
01:30 The risk: executive pastors will be cleaning up AI messes for years 
02:12 Bart's icebreaker: everyone on your team is already using it 
03:23 The goal: a one-page AI policy you can draft today 
03:33 Policy item #1: what to NEVER paste into a prompt 
04:15 What GPT actually stands for, and why your data trains the model 04:56 The postcard test: if you wouldn't mail it, don't prompt it 
05:43 When AI "breaks out": recent stories and why caution matters 06:43 Policy item #2: disclosure, when to tell people AI was involved 07:45 The embarrassment test: if admitting it would embarrass you, don't use it 
07:54 Policy item #3: green light, red light, and caution lists 
09:20 "Ones and zeros": once it's digitized, it's out there 
10:24 Recap + your challenge: write your AI policy this week 
10:58 Resources at executivepastor.io

Executive Pastor resources: https://executivepastor.io 
Intentional Churches: https://intentionalchurches.com

]]> Executive Pastor, Church Director, Associate Pastor, Church Operations, Minister of Administration No How to Start Using AI at Your Church This Week 1 1 1 1 How to Start Using AI at Your Church This Week full ba2ae123-dd0b-4a7d-b9a8-276797979f32 https://share.transistor.fm/s/81449f74 93% of pastors now use AI, but only about a third of churches use it in actual operations. The gap is a playbook, not permission. In this episode, we break down the fastest, safest ways to put AI to work as your "tireless intern" that produces solid first drafts while you make the calls. We cover the three tasks to hand off first and the one you never should.


In this episode

  • The "tireless intern" mental model
  • Three admin tasks to automate on day one
  • Where AI must stay out of the loop
]]> 93% of pastors now use AI, but only about a third of churches use it in actual operations. The gap is a playbook, not permission. In this episode, we break down the fastest, safest ways to put AI to work as your "tireless intern" that produces solid first drafts while you make the calls. We cover the three tasks to hand off first and the one you never should.


In this episode

  • The "tireless intern" mental model
  • Three admin tasks to automate on day one
  • Where AI must stay out of the loop
]]> Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:32:48 -0700 Intentional Churches Intentional Churches 986 93% of pastors now use AI, but only about a third of churches use it in actual operations. The gap is a playbook, not permission. In this episode, we break down the fastest, safest ways to put AI to work as your "tireless intern" that produces solid first drafts while you make the calls. We cover the three tasks to hand off first and the one you never should.


In this episode

  • The "tireless intern" mental model
  • Three admin tasks to automate on day one
  • Where AI must stay out of the loop
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