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.
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...
Most church staff who switch from ChatGPT to Claude open it up, type the same prompt they always use, get a different kind of answer, and close the tab.
That's the wrong move.
Claude is not a ChatGP...
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 ...
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 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.
...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...
You can plan a month of church social media in one sitting with AI. What stops most teams is not creativity. It is the blank calendar. Fill it once, batch the posts, and the month runs itself.
Start ...
You can turn three bullet points into a finished church email in about a minute. The skill is giving the AI enough to work with. Here is how to do it well, with a prompt you can reuse every week.
Why...
A custom GPT is a version of ChatGPT you set up once for a single job, then reuse forever. Your church can build one to answer guest questions, draft in your voice, or run a repeatable task. No code r...