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.
You cannot learn AI alone. It changes weekly, and no one has it fully figured out yet, so the people keeping up are the ones learning in a group.
Why Solo Learning Stalls
On your own, there is no fe...
Most AI courses are built for marketers and founders. A church staff member sitting through one has to translate every example, and most of it does not translate. That is why generic AI training so of...
This week, I asked Claude to publish an article on my website. It picked the category. It picked the tags. It found older posts to link back to the new one. I didn't touch any of it.
It didn't start ...
A church AI policy does not need to be long. It needs to cover ten things. Here are the sections every workable policy includes, in the order they belong.
The 10 Essential Sections
- Purpose. Why you ...
Imagine a company built a really powerful tool. So powerful that the government got a little nervous and said "wait, hold on, let's pause this while we check things out." That's what happened with Ant...
Every church using AI hits the same question five times a week: can I use this tool? A simple traffic-light system answers it once, for everyone, and ends the back-and-forth.
Why the Questions Keep C...
The biggest AI risk in your church is not a robot preacher. It is a volunteer pasting a counseling note into a free chatbot that learns from everything it is given.
The Risk in Plain Terms
Many publ...
Your youth pastor is already using AI to prep small-group questions. Someone on staff runs the weekly email through ChatGPT before it goes out. A volunteer edited last week's sermon clips with it. All...
Your sermons are full of the exact questions people type into Google. Turned into text, they can pull search traffic to your church all week long. Most churches never make the move.
Why Sermons Are S...
A thirty-second clip from your sermon will out-reach the full video almost every time. Here is why, and how to pick the moments worth cutting.
Why Short Clips Win
Three reasons. Attention is short, ...
One sermon should not end on Sunday. Pastors who get the most from their content run everything through one pattern: long-form to mid-form to short-form. Learn it once and every message works harder.
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You spend hours on a message. You preach it once. The full video goes up, a few hundred people scroll past it, and by Tuesday it is buried under the next thing. That is the normal life of a sermon, an...
