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've probably seen it in your feed already. A friend posts about texting their new AI assistant like it's a coworker, and it books the reservation, answers the email, or handles the errand without t...
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 ...
Granola can use anonymized data from your church staff meetings to improve its AI. One setting stops it. Turning it off takes about a minute.
Granola is an AI meeting assistant that can save church s...
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 ...
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...
Your church already has people using AI.
You just don't know it.
Your volunteers are using ChatGPT to write announcements.
Your youth pastor drafted last week's small group content with it.
Someone o...
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...
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...
