The best ways to AI your content

AI is a highway to laziness.

This post is not about using AI instead of your brain or resourcefulness.

But, AI can play an important (but truthfully not vital) role in both the classroom and the pulpit.

Of course, AI won’t be able to differentiate any automatically generated content to your specific context.

It won’t know your class.

It won’t know your teens.

It won’t know your congregation.

It won’t know their issues.

It won’t know their personalities.

It won’t know their histories.

But, AI can help a few areas.

Outline.

Edit.

Tighten.

Titles.

Demographic angles.

AI can provide a potential structure to your sermon or lesson, which you then use as a launching pad and insert all your own personalised content.

AI can absolutely improve your content by editing the grammar and - if prompted to NOT CHANGE THE MEANING IN ANY WAY - can help tighten your content by anywhere up to a third.

Better yet, if you prompt AI to explain why it made the changes that it did, you can control the edits which you leave in and which you ignore.

Once you have your content, you can ask AI to generate a few titles for your lesson or sermon. While these may be the ones you use, at worst, they will provide you with an indication of how your content would be interpreted. Perhaps, this will give you a heads-up if your content is difficult to follow clearly.

Finally, you can prompt AI with different demographics and ask how the topic may apply to them, potentially opening up relevant avenues for you to explore on your own.

Importantly, nothing above tells you to just punch in a prompt and hit print.

You still need to do work.

You still need to craft the content.

The process of creating is as important as the final product.

But, AI can helpfully nudge you in a direction or show you how your content can be improved.