The #1 reason people leave your church livestream?

Justin R. Lester says bad audio is why people stop watching church livestreams. He recommends hiring a sound engineer, upgrading microphones, and securing reliable Wi-Fi. Poor audio matters more than camera quality or preaching skill.
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This is the mistake I see too many churches make when going live and people leave. It's not your camera. It's not the preaching. It's not the platform. It's not the lights. It's terrible audio. Without the right sound engineer, you can go live all you want to. You can livestream all you want to. But a $30 mic in a big room will kill everything you do. So I want to tell you this before you try to do sermon clips and before you try to do all this other work. Before you check your lighting and all this type of stuff. Fix your audio. Audio churches, because we are getting crappy audio. Fix the chords that go directly from your soundboard to your live stream. Secure your WI fi, secure your hotspot, then secure your lighting, because all of this stuff kills your momentum. You can preach half a message with bad audio. I don't care how good the message sounds. Bad audio will get people to leave. So don't be that guy. Don't be that girl. Excellence honors God. And that excellence is not just in what you wear to church and not just how you prepare. It's in your audio. It's in your lighting. It's in your secure WI fi spaces. So fix those mistakes, then put some sermon clips up. I'm here to help because I'm tired of hearing these grainy audio things and grainy stuff because, oh, my God. Excellence honors God. But some of your audio sounds like you just. You literally just rigged something together. So get it together, y' all like, and follow for more.
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