TL;DR: Digital Ministry News Recap 

• MxU: Why your soundcheck isn’t working.

• OpenAI: AI game-changer: ChatGPT Atlas?

• Pro Church Tools Show: An unlimited supply of church creative ideas?

• Churchfront: Online views = church growth?

Soundchecks Not Working? Here’s Why…

MxU shares “The Real Reason Your Soundcheck Isn’t Working” (5-minute watch), unpacking the critical difference between a soundcheck and a rehearsal, offering a clear, step-by-step process for tech teams and worship leaders. The video outlines how common mistakes—like skipping a pre-band line check and musicians not providing their full dynamic range for setting gain and compression—can lead to chaos on Sunday, and explains how fixing these technical bad habits reclaims rehearsal time for creative and spiritual preparation.

AI Game-Changer: ChatGPT Atlas?

OpenAI shares “Introducing ChatGPT Atlas” (7-minute read), announcing a new web browser built around ChatGPT — positioning it as a “super-assistant” designed to let users ask questions, automate tasks and access their conversation history directly from the window they’re working in. The initial release is for macOS, with Windows, iOS and Android versions coming later. Significance: ChatGPT Atlas can dramatically streamline research, purchasing, content review, volunteer workflows and admin tasks by having AI integrated at the browser level. Editor’s Note: ICYMI, the Comet browser, an alternative from Perplexity is available on Windows and macOS.

An Unlimited Supply of Church Creative Ideas?

The Pro Church Tools Show shares “How To Never Run Out Of Creative Ideas At Church” (27-minute watch), where the hosts reveal systems they’ve developed to provide consistent creative ideas. Their approach revolves around five key strategies: reuse (stick with simple templates to reduce effort), borrow (look outside the church space for formats and inspiration), repeat (recirculate formats or content that worked), repurpose (use older sermons and assets to generate fresh content), and reduce variety/build a vault (instead of chasing novelty every time, build an “inspiration vault” of ideas and reuse them strategically).

Online Views = Church Growth?

Churchfront shares “Online Views = Church Growth? New Data Revealed!“ (2-minute watch), a quick take asserting that growing online views are a lead indicator for church growth, based on The Unstuck Group’s “Q3 2025 Unstuck Church Report”.

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