Churchfront Podcast

About This Week's Guest
Jon Rush is the founder of Scroll Company, an agency that helps legacy and missional organizations, including Maxwell Leadership, reach new audiences through campaign-based creative work. Before that he spent ten years at a large church outside Chicago and five years at Elevation Church in Charlotte, where he pastored the broadcast location. He travels to speak and teach.
Creators have broad reach. Pastors have depth. Jake and Jon talk about how local church leaders can use content to extend the influence they already have: theology nights as a way to launch a church, a weekly podcast paired with a Zoom community for discipleship, and how a pastor can serve their people in ways no national creator can.
They also debate whether churches should livestream their Sunday services, why content works best when it's made for the platform instead of repurposed from the sermon, the seeker-sensitive overcorrection, why only the people of God have a sanctuary, and what the church should do about Roblox, Grand Theft Auto and the coming digital worlds.

About This Week's Guest
Tyler Kerpsack is a front of house engineer who has been mixing since 2006, from church rooms to arena tours. He co-founded the creative agency Actify, consults and trains church production teams with Blackbox, shares weekly mixing tips with tens of thousands of engineers online, and is an Emmy nominee.
Jake sits down with Tyler in the Churchfront studio to talk about where church sound is headed. They cover why the PA brand matters less than the room and the design, when an immersive system is good stewardship and when it isn't, and why both of them expect real-time AI mixing engines to arrive soon, leaving the engineer to bring taste instead of turning knobs.
They also talk about what that means for church teams. If technology takes over more of the mechanics, the time it frees belongs to people. Jake makes the case that the church is called to make disciples, not ProPresenter operators, and Tyler shares how he hid behind production in his own faith for years. Along the way: Avantis and SQ versus the Waves LV1, Dante and control systems, building your own software with AI, and what mix engineers should learn next.

About This Week's Guest
Chris Kuti has spent 20 years leading creative teams, from worship and production teams to songwriting and communications teams, in settings from living rooms to arenas and from church plants to multisite churches.
In this keynote from Churchfront Conference 2025, Chris tells the story of a rehearsal that sounded perfect and felt empty, and what it taught him about leading people instead of just running ministry. You can have the right sound, the right systems and the right skill and still have the wrong spirit.
He walks through five ways to build a team culture that lasts: clarity creates culture, character carries culture, consistency builds trust, community fuels culture, and conviction sustains culture. Then Jake Gosselin opens the floor for audience questions on shaping one worship culture across every service and rebuilding culture after years of turnover.

"Go get us three quotes" sounds like a responsible first step when a church is planning a sound, lighting or video upgrade. In this episode, Jake Gosselin and Luke Jackson explain why it so often sends a project sideways before it starts, and who really needs to be in the room.
They talk through why a church AV system is a specialized construction project and not a commodity, why the companies you call sometimes never call back, and what happens when a church chooses the best number instead of the best partner. You will also hear the questions to ask any AV partner before you hire them, why senior leaders belong in the conversation from day one, and why the real test is how well a system serves the volunteers who run it on a Sunday morning.

At the closing session of Churchfront Conference 2025, the Churchfront team sat down on stage at Rock Harbor Church and read real comments from our YouTube channel. Do churches care more about lights than the gospel? Why does it have to be so loud? Why is all this necessary? Sean Bennett moderates, and Jake Gosselin, Matt Woltjer, Luke Jackson, Spencer Trefzger and Adam Beranek answer with their pastor hats on.
The conversation covers why we ask every church "why?" before recommending an upgrade, what a sound system upgrade is really for, why professional tools last longer, and how worship has always cost something. Then the audience takes over: the e-drums versus acoustic drums debate, how to bring traditional members along as a service modernizes, and the biggest challenge Churchfront has faced in becoming an integrator.