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.
AI training is one of the cheapest high-return investments a church can make right now, if you buy the right kind. Here is a simple way to think about the cost.
What You Are Actually Paying For
The ...
A secular AI course and church-built AI training teach the same tools. What surrounds the tools is where they part ways, and that gap decides whether your team can use what they learn.
The Tools Are ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
