Hi Reader,

Almost 2 in 3 pastors are now using AI for sermon prep. While I'm not here to tell you that's wrong (I use it too), I think there's an important question nobody's asking.

Are you losing the ability to preach?

Not your desire or passion, but your actual cognitive ability to wrestle with a text, sit with God, and bring something forged from real work to your congregation on Sunday.

What's happening on university campuses right now should be a warning to every pastor who's let AI do the heavy lifting. Professors at Cornell, Penn, and NYU are bringing back oral exams because students are turning in perfect papers and then can't explain a single sentence of them. One professor said it plainly: students are losing the ability to think.

We need to have that exact conversation about pastors.

Your role can't be delegated or abdicated

In this video, I share my own confession about losing the ability to read books (not the interest, the ability), what Dr. Tom Long told me after preaching a 45-minute sermon without a single note, and the one rule I used while writing my upcoming book that kept my thinking sharp.

If you want to use AI without losing the thing that makes powerful preaching yours, this is for you.

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Hope this helps, because I think the leaders who will make an impact in ten years are the ones who kept their minds sharp when everyone else didn't.

Cheering for you,

P.S. If you want to go deeper, AI and the Future Church is now available for pre-order.​