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.
Every year I help run the State of AI in the Church survey. Three years in, the question church leaders ask me has changed completely.
Here's where things stand in the 2026 results:
- 93.5% of churc ...
I've been in rooms where the question never gets asked out loud.
Leaders nod along to AI presentations. They smile. They take notes. And then, after the session, someone pulls me aside and whispers w...
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...
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...
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 ...
