EP348 - Jeff & Eric Kidwell Talk AI, Digital Mission, and Killing the Contact Form
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EP348 - Jeff & Eric Kidwell Talk AI, Digital Mission, and Killing the Contact Form

What if your church’s website could talk back? Not with static forms or outdated contact pages but with real-time intelligent conversations. That’s the future Eric Kidwell is…

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What if your church’s website could talk back? Not with static forms or outdated contact pages but with real-time intelligent conversations. That’s the future Eric Kidwell is building. As the founder…

Jeff Reed sits down with Eric Kidwell, founder of LiveAI.co, to explore what happens when you put an AI-powered door greeter on your church website — one trained in your voice, your beliefs, and your ministry DNA, available 24/7. They dig into AI's role as a traffic cop (not a people-replacer), the death of the static contact form, multilingual outreach, and the wild frontier of pushing AI into Discord, WhatsApp, and live stream chat. Concrete takeaway: your website can be doing ministry right now while you sleep.

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Eric Kidwell
IN THIS EPISODE
HostJeff Reed
SeriesThe Church Digital Podcast
Runtime58:56
Recorded liveJul 16, 2025
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