How I use AI in ministry

You deserve to know how the things you read here were made. So here it is, plainly.

AI is an assistant

I think of AI the way I think of a capable assistant: someone I can hand specific tasks to. Those tasks include proofreading, editing, and suggesting changes. It helps me summarize, synthesize, and publish.

The source is mine

Everything on this site and in my books is based on my own previous sermons, writings, and teaching, and on years of ministry at Living Faith Church and The Garage. AI is a conversation partner in shaping that material into books, articles, and study guides. It is not the source of the convictions, the stories, or the theology.

I'm the author and the final editor

I am the original author of the source material, and I am the final editor of everything published under my name. If something here is wrong, that's on me, not on a tool. I'd be grateful if you'd tell me about it.

Our church's policy

At Living Faith Church, the Elders adopted a full AI policy in June 2026. It covers what's approved and what's off-limits, how AI may and may not be used in sermon preparation, protecting congregants' data, disclosure, and how we disciple our people to use AI faithfully. Its guiding conviction is the one I try to live by here: AI is a tool, not a teacher.

Churches are welcome to adapt it for their own context.

Grateful for the help

A bi-vocational pastor doesn't have a staff of writers and editors. For a long time, a lot of what I've taught never made it past the room it was taught in. I'm grateful for my AI “staff.” They help the work reach further than I could take it alone.