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Wake that ass up. Earl, in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV. J. N.V. J. Salarious. Sholomey and the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Law and La Rosa is here. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have passed it. Jamal Bryant. Welcome, brother.

Thank you, sir.

Good to be with y'all.

How you feeling this morning?

Feel great.

Feeling good.

You flew in this? I flew in last night. Oh, wow, wow. Okay, right after service? Right after service. Yeah, I was too scared. I was going to be delayed. Delta got a whole lot going on right now. So I came in last night, better safe than sorry. You know, you, you, you wanted the people who, um, you actually use social media to spread the word and spread

what you're doing in a, in a, in a great way. When did you realize that you had to start

doing that? I think, uh, culture made it. Uh, the culture changes every four years.

Church culture changes every 20.

So the average church is 15 years behind schedule.

So to reach a younger demographic, I knew I had to hear that.

Most churches, Charlemagne, broadcasts on Facebook.

Most young people are on TikTok.

So it's a great disconnect.

So social media really is that bridge to make the church

are relevant to a generation that's disconnected. And church called, you said church closed changes

every 20 years? What's that look like? Well, by virtue of the fact that we're always running

behind. So the average black church wouldn't even know what AI is. You have to think most churches didn't even stream until the pandemic.

3,000, 3,045 churches closed in the pandemic simply because they didn't have online given.

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