AI in Sermon Prep: Leveraging the Tools Without Dishonoring Your Calling

Mankind was meant to have dominion over creation. But the tendency is for the creation to have dominion over man. And right now, 64% of pastors are using AI in some form for sermon prep while carrying an unspoken tension: “Am I crossing a line?”

The concerns are real. Preaching is a sacred act. The wrestling matters.

The Spirit works through the process, not just the pulpit. And no algorithm has ever sat at a hospital bedside, prayed over a struggling marriage, or known what your congregation specifically needs to hear this Sunday.

But this tension isn’t new. Every major technological shift in the history of the Church has been met with genuine resistance. The printing press was controversial. Translating the Bible out of Latin was considered dangerous. Bible software wasn’t immediately embraced.

The answer has never been to accept new technology outright. It has been to put technology in its proper place. To define its role. To draw the lines between what advances the mission and what threatens it.

AI is the next version of that same conversation. Ignoring the concerns won’t serve you. Taking them seriously and building a framework will. One that keeps the tool in its place and the calling at the center.

This free live training offers a practical framework for integrating AI into the sermon prep process you already have. With your integrity intact and your calling honored.

Here’s what we’ll walk through:

• Why AI is a tool, not a persona, and certainly not a pastor.
• How to use AI as a research accelerant without abdicating the creative and pastoral work that makes your preaching yours.
• Where the line is between leveraging a resource and outsourcing your responsibility.
• A “trust but verify” approach that keeps you in the driver’s seat.
• Why the anxiety disappears when you rightly categorize the tool and give it its proper place in your process.

This isn’t a training to teach you how to use AI to write your sermon. It’s about staying faithful to your calling while using every good tool available to you.

You were not made to avoid the tools or be mastered by them. You were made to lead them.

AI can’t be led by the Holy Spirit. But you can. And you can use the best tools at your disposal.