Hello! I want to introduce myself. 😊 My name is Sarah Titus and I’ve been a genuine believer for 17 years now.
After I gave my life to Christ, my ex-husband didn’t like it, and he eventually gave me the ultimatum to leave Christ or he’d leave ME. 😮 Yes, I was shocked too!
New in my faith, I still did not waiver and I walk in my Christian life as a single mom today, all these years, because of it. I’m not sorry. 💯
Faced with how to support two babies on my own back then, with a gone-husband and no means to support myself, I relied heavily on Christ to get me through those tough times.
Five years later after he left, I started blogging (in 2013), and today (2025), I’ve made around $29 million dollars online in revenue. You can read my full story here.
👉 THIS is the power of GOD! 🙌
God decided to take this girl who was rejected, unloved, abandoned, and raise her up to be a leader, a shepherd for His kingdom here online to other moms.
It is ONLY by HIS power I am here.
By His sovereign will, so are YOU. ❤️
I start out this post in this way, telling this story, because I want you to understand that no amount of AI can replace you.
Your stories, your passion, your love for Christ and the people around you, your faithfulness to Him through the good and the bad times, CANNOT be replicated by a machine. Period.
The purpose of this post is to help you get past the fear of AI and to use it in a way that honors both Christ and your congregation.
With that, let’s begin…
How Pastors Can Use AI to Create Stronger, More Faithful Sermons
I’ve already mentioned that a piece of machinery cannot replace you…
God created AI
Secondly, I’d want to say that God is not surprised by this technology and He doesn’t want us to live in fear of it either (2 Timothy 1:7).
AI is like money. It’s like physical intimacy. We must view it in those terms.
Money is not inherently bad. Physical intimacy was created to be an enjoyment between a husband and his wife, to procreate the land that God created for us in which to live, etc.
However, man comes along, in our sinful nature, and you get the bad stuff that comes along with the things God created. It’s man’s mind, sin, that makes money bad. Money is not evil, the LOVE of money is a root of all kinds of evil, 1 Timothy 6:10 says.
Same thing with physical intimacy. God created it to be enjoyed between a husband and a wife and man messes up that beauty. Sin messes it up. Makes it bad. Does bad things with it.
AI is like that. It is not evil, but man can use it for evil.
If you don’t want to use AI, because it can be used for evil, then do you also not use money, or not be intimate with your wife?
We must first, keep AI in it’s proper perspective in order to utilize this tool, that yes, GOD created (whether by placing it in the minds of man or by sovereignly allowing it to be created at all).
This will free you to use AI without guilt or shame in a wrong way. If you still feel guilty about using AI after having read that, then the proper response is to never violate your conscience, but it seems that some Pastors and some Christians need the approval, the green light to use AI, still wondering if it’s okay to use.
Definitely make it a matter of prayer, but this IS where the world is going. It’s here to stay and AI will be both a blessing and a curse in the future, I’m sure. Let’s use it for good. For leaders to use it for God’s glory, honor, integrity, to preach HIS message to the people more abundantly and concisely.
Understand that being a Pastor is a full-time J.O.B.
Many people in your congregation think that all you do is speak once a week at church. Maybe you prepare a little the day before and just zoom…go. Whatever comes out, comes out.
NOTHING could be further from the truth and if you’re a Pastor, you understand this.
Pastors of small churches wear many hats. You do a lot of things that suck up your time and keep you away from the Word of God. But investing in your own soul is the first priority of a Pastor here on earth. Why? Because it affects so many people, including your wife and family.
Your sermons are either good or bad, based on your own experience, time, and ability to study of the Word of God.
But what if you could free up more time so that you could study the Word of God more?
What if all the hats you wear, you can systematize them so that you can spend more time on learning, teaching, preaching, praying, and studying the Bible?
With AI, you can.
It can, in that way, free up your time considerably, to make you a more effective, stronger, and faithful servant of the Lord.
How? Let’s dive deep into this area. I want to show you some REAL examples of amazing ways that AI can help you in your pastoral call and your day to day life as a believer.
1) Never let AI write your sermons for you
I do not let AI write blog posts for me. Instead, I think of AI like an extra team member or an assistant, helping me do some tasks in order that I be able to create the things I love (and am called to do) more frequently…create more printables, write more blog posts, and so on.
When you get good at it, you may be tempted to just let AI write the whole sermon for you. It absolutely has that capability, so why not?
Letting a machine be the voice of God is not at all what we want to do. A computer does not know God. It never can. The vastness of His love, His beauty, His creation, His words, His wisdom, His feelings.
It cannot understand with empathy and emotion, it is intellectual. It is a data bank, not a human. It is something created by man.
I think that we can all agree on that.
Being a Pastor or leader in a church is a big responsibility (Matthew 18:6) and how we shepherd the people matters. It matters to the people and to God Himself. He called you to be a Pastor and you have to give it all you have, not letting a machine run every aspect for you.
Don’t use it as a crutch, use it as a way to get more time back into your schedule so you can do more of what God placed you on this earth to do: preach.
2) AI CAN write sermon outlines for you
I plugged into ChatGPT, a simple prompt: “Write me a 5-point sermon outline about….” Fill in the blank. I chose to input in “a new life in Christ”. I was actually, pleasantly surprised by how right-on it was (and Biblical).
Here’s an example of what I got:
Title: New Creation: Finding Freedom In Your New Life
- Week 1: A New Identity
- Week 2: Moving from Sin to Light
- Week 3: Walk in the Spirit
- Week 4: Be Holy As I Am Holy
- Week 5: A Kingdom of Priests (one of my favorite topics) 😊
You can then have ChatGPT (or MidJourney, Claude, Gemini, etc., although I personally prefer ChatGPT at this time), to fill in some other key points such as Scripture references to each point, an explanation and application, and even a relatable story idea to help take the sermon home in the hearts and lives of the people.
For me, I used a few of these prompts to include in a couple sermon series graphics I have in my Christian shop (technology and creation on page 2 in the sermon series slides section).
If you’re preaching topically, these prompts in AI can be a great tool to use, to free up your time of creating an outline and relative points, and help you get to the actual text, the “meat” of the Word of God, easier. Studying more of God’s Word helps you be able to give more Biblically-sound sermons. 😊
This allows you to spend more time researching, praying, and being led by the Spirit of what the text means so that you can spend your time focused on going deeper into the Word of God, therefore, giving you a better, more “meatier” sermon. 🎉
3) Using AI to research positions on church articles
You can ask AI things like, “What does John MacArthur say about…” or “What is Alistair Begg’s position on…”
You could even ask it what the general consensus is on a particular topic.
If you know what the general popular believes about a topic, you can gently sway that in your sermon and help guide the people toward truth.
AI, in this way, can become a very powerful tool in your repertoire, helping you see from both angles in order to lead and guide the people.
But let’s go deeper and use it on a more practical approach…
4) Composing an email
Let’s say you have to write an email to someone who just lost their husband to cancer. It’s a delicate and sensitive time in their life and must be handled properly and with great care and concern.
The first thing to do, is to think about the things you want to say and make a checklist of what YOU want to say. Take a couple minutes and write down the key things you want to mention in your email BEFORE you go to ChatGPT. It’s important to do this step before, not after, because you want to make sure the email is coming from YOU with YOUR ideas and is spirit-filled from the Lord.
Next, you could enter in this prompt, which you could adjust to the particular situation better:
“Write me a 200-word email full of empathy, sympathy, and love to someone who just lost their husband to cancer. Make it full of inspiration and show God’s love and concern for them.”
This is the response I received from ChatGPT:
After that, you can go back into ChatGPT and add in your own bullet points of things you wanted to mention and say something like, “rewrite the same email but add in the following bullet points…”
ChatGPT will then add it in, making the letter wholly YOU, while still saving you time. Small increments of time add up over the long haul.
You could use AI to create the wording for what to say at funerals and wedding events as well.
5) AI can transcribe your sermons
Before AI, transcribing your sermons was for the big churches with big funds. Now, even small churches can have access to the same tools as the bigger churches. It puts you at sort of the same playing field as them. The “underdog” finds a way! This can help your website and your church grow and reach a whole new audience that you weren’t able to before.
Some people are hearing-impaired. They can’t listen to a sermon, but they can see and read. Having a transcribed sermon for them is easy to put on your website along with your sermon for those purposes.
Simply upload your sermon video into ChatGPT and tell it to transcribe it for you. You can even tell it to make you a PDF of it if you’d like it to be downloadable.
Here’s another cool one…
6) Serving your wife
We all understand that Pastors lead by example. Not only do they lead their families in kindness and truth, but they also are servants. Husbands and wives are called to serve and submit to each other, to love each other, and to take good care of one another.
Let’s say your wife is late from being in meetings all day and is coming home totally tired. When she gets home, she will have to consider what to make for dinner for your family, but she’s exhausted from the day.
Since you’re not the main meal preparer in your home, you don’t really know what to make. That’s kinda something she takes care of. Why not be the hero and save the day?! 🎉
Take a picture of what’s in your fridge and ask ChatGPT to give you 3 meal ideas you can make from what you already have on hand!
You can add a picture to ChatGPT here:
Give it a picture of your pantry as well if you’d like, but ChatGPT has the ability to do this for you. When she comes home, you could already have the ingredients pulled out and maybe even started the cooking process a little bit.
Or maybe it’s your anniversary and you’d like to buy your wife some flowers. Obviously, you want to spend God’s money wisely, but you do want nice flowers for her.
Ask ChatGPT what’s the cheapest price for quality flowers in your area (be specific with your city/state). You could ask it questions like, “Does ordering online instead of ordering locally save me more money?”, “Where’s the best place online to get flowers delivered?”, things like that.
I recently did this with my car insurance bill. I currently pay $106/month for car insurance and wanted it cheaper but didn’t want to spend all the time calling around to different agencies. I uploaded a copy of my declaration page to ChatGPT and told it to find me cheaper insurance. 😆
It did! It recommended another company and told me the price I can expect to pay with the other company is $20-$35/month less! I plan to call them tomorrow! 😆
But it saved me from calling a bunch of different places.
Now, I ask you…does that glorify God?
Saving money on our bills?
Saving money obviously glorifies God. It makes us better stewards of the riches He gives us on earth.
Again, the tools aren’t evil. What we do with them could be good, or it could be bad. We use them for God’s glory, for His purposes, for the better service of those around us.
Start by thinking about all the ways in which you can implement this tool into your life.
What can you delegate out in order to streamline processes or redundancy in order to have more time with your family and study of the Word of God?
Each person’s answers will be different.
That’s the point.
The tool can help you where you are, with whatever you feel comforable to share with it. Definitely don’t share a social security number or anything. We understand that, but things like helping you choose dinner when your wife is later than anticipated to make dinner or a sermon outline, is not too sensitive of information to share. 😊
Use AI to help you, your congregation, and the world.
