Justin R. LesterFounder & AI-Ministry Strategist, TheoXTech · Pastor. Professor. AI Strategist.

Why Church Job Descriptions Still Think It’s 1999

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue by Justin R. Lester criticizing outdated church job descriptions (e.g., requirements like Microsoft Word, fax, potlucks) and arguing churches need future-focused hires who can manage livestreams, design visuals, automate emails, and use AI/chatbots. Lester offers five modern job descriptions and invites viewers to comment “jobs” to receive them for free; includes promotional call-to-action to like and follow.

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Did you ever read a church job description and say to yourself this is from 1999 like Simple Things like this, must know Microsoft Word, must know how to send fax, must know how to send an email and must love potlucks and must be a follower of Jesus, right? I mean just basic stuff. Meanwhile the world is running on artificial intelligence and churches and people who can run live stream, design visuals, automate emails and train chatgpt to sound pastoral without sounding robotic because they didn't put in custom instructions. And I think that's where hiring is for the future, right? So to that point I created five job descriptions for you and your church to use. Comment the word jobs and I'll send it right over to you for you to hire future forward thinking people and have the job description as the baseline to get the right people in the seats. So go ahead comment the word jobs. I'll send the job description right over to you completely for free. Be sure you like and follow for more.