AI For Churches: Resources & Articles
Practical AI insights for pastors, ministry leaders, and church communicators who want to lead well in a world that's changing fast. Curated by Kenny Jahng, founder of AI For Church Leaders and editor of ChurchTechToday.com.
Ask church leaders what worries them about AI and the same five fears come up. None of them are silly. Each has an honest answer.
Fear 1: AI Will Replace Me
It will not. AI can draft an email or sum...
AI comes with its own vocabulary, and a lot of it gets used without explanation. Here are twenty-five terms every church leader should recognize, in plain language, so the next article or webinar make...
Start with one tool and one real task this week. Not a course. Not a strategy doc. One task you already have to do, done with a little help from AI. That is the whole beginning.
Most leaders stall be...
AI is not going to replace pastors. What it can replace is a pile of busywork, the kind that keeps you at a desk when you should be in the room with people.
Ministry has always held two kinds of work...
More than nine in ten church leaders support using AI in ministry. Far fewer have written down a single rule for how their staff should use it. That distance between support and governance is the real...
Churches are using AI for the ordinary work that eats a staff's week: writing, teaching prep, media, and admin. Here are seventeen of the most common uses, grouped so you can find the one closest to y...
AI in ministry is the use of tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to help with the practical work of running a church: drafting communications, summarizing documents, researching a passage, editing ...
It depends on what you mean by use. There is a real line between letting AI write the sermon you preach and letting it help you prepare one. The first slides into dishonesty. The second is a faster ki...
Yes. Churches can use AI, and most already are, whether leadership has blessed it or not. The real question for a pastor is narrower: where does AI belong in ministry, and where should a human always ...
