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015 of 025 · At Work Everywhere

AI for

Pastors & Church Leaders

Somebody has already shown you a sermon it wrote in nine seconds. Sunday comes anyway — and so do the bulletin, the board packet and the forty small messages.

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ten and a half hours
of your week.

That’s ten and a half hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there.

Line illustration: an hourglass filled with folded sheets of paper instead of sand

Where the hours come from

  • Chapter 4The clerical side of sermon and teaching prep~2.5 hours
  • Chapter 5The bulletin, the newsletter, the forty small messages~2 hours
  • Chapter 6Board packets, minutes, policy drafts, the annual report~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 7Website, funerals-and-weddings paperwork, community letters~1 hour
  • Chapter 8The admin that eats sermon mornings and your day off~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 9The visitor follow-up and outreach you keep postponing~2 hours
Contents

Twelve chapters.

Twelve chapters. 150 prompts you can paste as they stand. A glossary written for people nobody bothered to tell, and thirty days to make it stick.

  1. Line illustration: an enormous church-hall coffee urn taller than a filing cabinet, already percolating with steam rising from its lid, a single tiny communion cup waiting on the floor under its tap, no lettering, badges or markings anywhere on the urn, the small cup the accent colour 01 Your Head Start
  2. Line illustration: a small brass handbell hanging at the end of a full-length church bell rope whose thick woollen sally and long tail dwarf it, everything plain with no lettering, numbers or markings anywhere, the sally the accent colour 02 The 30-Minute Setup
  3. Line illustration: a row of organ stop knobs on a plain console with one knob drawn out on a shaft as long as an oar, every knob face blank with no lettering or numerals, the extended knob the accent colour 03 How to Talk to It
  4. Line illustration: a waist-high stack of thick open commentaries and one legal pad, enclosed by a neat cage of builder's scaffolding poles, clamps and a plank walkway erected around the books, every spine and page left blank with no lettering or numerals, the scaffolding the accent colour 04 Sermon & Teaching Prep — The Honest Version
  5. Line illustration: a cork noticeboard so thickly layered with small pinned paper slips that it has grown outward into a shaggy hedge of paper, every slip completely blank with no lettering or numerals, the board's wooden frame the accent colour 05 The Bulletin, the Newsletter, and the Forty Small Messages
  6. Line illustration: a folding trestle table of the kind kept in a church hall, its top bowed into a deep sag under one three-ring binder the size of a hay bale, the binder's covers and spine entirely blank with no lettering or numerals, the binder the accent colour 06 Church Operations Without the Late Nights
  7. Line illustration: a small clapboard church with a steeple, shrunk to the size of a birdhouse and perched on the head of an enormous map pin driven into the ground, its little noticeboard by the door left blank with no lettering or numerals, the map pin the accent colour 07 The Church People Can Find
  8. Line illustration: a small church-office desk with a rotary telephone on it, standing alone on a round island ringed by a neat circular moat with its miniature drawbridge raised on chains, the telephone's dial blank with no lettering or numerals, the raised drawbridge the accent colour 08 The Pastoral Workload — Protecting the Work Only You Can Do
  9. Line illustration: a foil-covered potluck casserole dish scaled up to the size of a rowing boat, resting on a doorstep with one ordinary oven glove hooked over its handle, the foil plain with no note, lettering or numerals anywhere, the oven glove the accent colour 09 Outreach & Growth — Warmth at Scale
  10. Line illustration: a church bell hanging in its wooden yoke with its clapper wrapped in many thick turns of cloth and bound tight with cord, the bell surface entirely plain with no inscription, lettering or numerals, the binding cord the accent colour 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
  11. Line illustration: a boxy hand-cranked stencil duplicator of the sort that lived in church offices for decades, a slim modern laptop clamped into its paper tray where the paper should go, the laptop's screen and keys entirely blank and the machine's dials unmarked, nothing lettered or numbered anywhere, the laptop and the crank handle the accent colour 11 Tools of the Trade
  12. Line illustration: an enormous church bell hanging mouth-forward from a plain beam with a small brass handbell hung inside it in place of its clapper, both bells left completely bare with no lettering, dates or inscriptions cast into them, the little handbell the accent colour 12 Your First 30 Days

Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition.

Free, from this book, right now

Read the opening before you decide.

Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade.

The opening · 2,200 words Sunday Comes Anyway About 10 minutes. What AI does and does not do in this trade, and why the difference is worth your Tuesday. Read it free → The library · 150 titles Every prompt in the book, by name All eight groups, every numbered title, and twelve of the prompts printed in full so you can use them today. See the list → The field guide · free What AI does for pastors & church leaders The whole answer on one page: the six blocks of writing worth handing over, what each is worth in hours, what the tool gets wrong here, and the words you will meet. Read the guide →
From the Prompt Library

Prompt #1.

Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one.

COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile

Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I’m the [ROLE — pastor / associate pastor / church administrator] of [CHURCH NAME], a congregation of about [SIZE] in [CITY, STATE], [DENOMINATION OR ‘nondenominational’]. Our services: [DAYS/TIMES]. When I ask you to write anything for the congregation or public, keep it warm, plain, and brief — an 8th-grade reading level, no corporate buzzwords, no exclamation points unless I use them. Never invent facts, Scripture references, quotes, or stories; if you’re not certain of a citation, say so. I will never share names or private details of congregants with you; if something I paste seems to contain one, flag it. You draft; I decide.”

One of 150 in AI for Pastors & Church Leaders.

Formats

Pick how you want it.

Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay. Prices, delivery and returns.

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Ebook (EPUB)
EPUB 3 · reflowable · no DRM · 1124 KB · about 30,821 words · ISBN 979-8-90623-439-1
$7.99
Audiobook
MP3 · unabridged except the Prompt Library · 2h 34m · 20 tracks · ISBN 979-8-90623-440-7
$14.99
Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book?

Not yet. The free tiers carry you through this book’s exercises and your first weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (about $20/month) when you hit the daily limits during a normal workweek — that’s the signal the tool is earning a line in the budget. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys and how to explain it to the finance committee in one sentence.

Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job?

No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will never suggest that AI write your sermon. Chapter 4 draws that line in ink and explains why it holds. Second: nothing about your people — no name, no confession, no counseling detail, no prayer request tied to a person — ever goes into an AI tool. Chapter 10 treats that as what it is: not a software policy, a covenant.” You can read the whole opening, Sunday Comes Anyway, free: 2,200 words, no sign-up.

What is actually in the 150 prompts?

Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Sermon & Teaching Prep (16–40), Congregational Communication (41–65), Church Operations (66–85), Community Presence (86–105), The Pastoral Workload (106–120), Outreach & Growth (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full.

I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced?

It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses.

How long is it?

It is about 30,821 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 34m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them.

What do I actually get, and how is it delivered?

Ebook at $7.99 and Audiobook at $14.99. Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay — the EPUB has no DRM, so it is yours on any reader. Ebook ISBN 979-8-90623-439-1; Audiobook ISBN 979-8-90623-440-7. There is no printed edition of this one yet.

The last line of the Promise Page

This book will never suggest that AI write your sermon. Chapter 4 draws that line in ink and explains why it holds. Second: nothing about your people — no name, no confession, no counseling detail, no prayer request tied to a person — ever goes into an AI tool. Chapter 10 treats that as what it is: not a software policy, a covenant.

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