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How Living Sermon works

Revelation. Questions for a midweek discussion, drawn from the sermon, approved before publishing.

Monday

  1. How much of this week went into Sunday, and where is that work now?
  2. If the sermon simply stopped mattering on Monday, would you know?

Tuesday, eleven at night

  1. Who in your congregation is most likely to be awake tonight, looking for something you already said?
  2. What would change if your voice, and not a stranger's, met them at eleven at night?

What you actually do

  1. What would you need to be convinced of before you handed over a recording of your own preaching?
  2. Is there anything in your week you would genuinely be willing to add, and what would it have to be worth?

The part that matters most

  1. Who in your church would you actually trust to read and approve what goes out under your name?
  2. What would an assistant have to refuse to do before you would let it near your pulpit's words?

The week it keeps working

  1. What is the question your people are most likely to ask that they would never ask you to your face?
  2. Who at your church would receive that, on the day, and do they know it?

What comes back to you

  1. What do you currently know about how last Sunday actually landed, beyond who shook your hand at the door?
  2. If you learned this week that one question kept coming up, would your next sermon change?

Where we actually are

  1. What would you need to see, or to be promised, before you would try this with one of your own sermons?

For personal reflection at home

I preach most weeks

Start with one sermon, not a programme. Pick a message you already preached that you wish had gone further, and send us that. You will see the drafted walk before anyone else does, and if it has not caught your voice you say so and nothing goes live. The habit that matters is about twenty five minutes on a Monday, and it is the one thing we would ask you to test honestly before committing to anything.

I lead a denomination or association

The shape that works at your level is one arrangement covering member churches, with every congregation keeping its own name, its own pastoral contact and its own approval. No church's content is ever merged with another's, and a congregant joining one church's feed does not receive another's. The smaller congregations in your group, the ones with no media team, are usually where this makes the most difference.

I am cautious about AI in church

Being cautious here is right, and we would rather work with a leader who is. The design assumes the assistant can be wrong, which is exactly why a person approves every field before publication and why the Ask assistant answers only from your own sermon and refuses when it does not know. If that discipline is not enough for you, it should not be, and we would rather hear that now.

We are small and have no media team

Most churches do not have someone to edit video, run social media and build web pages, and this was built with that in mind rather than for the churches that already have a production budget. What is asked of you is a recording or a manuscript you already have, and a short read on a Monday. Everything else is done for you.

I am not sure this is for us

That is a reasonable place to land, and there is no obligation here. If it helps, the most useful next step is not a demonstration but a conversation about your church specifically, what you preach, who is in the room, and whether the Monday habit is realistic for you. If it is not a fit we would rather say so early than sell you something that sits unused.

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