I Thought AI Sermon Help was Lazy—Then I Got Over Myself

I used to roll my eyes at pastors using AI. It felt lazy. Inauthentic. Like mailing it in.

But then I had a stretch of ministry where I was running on fumes. I wasn’t being lazy—I was surviving.

One night, out of desperation, I opened SermonDone.

Not to cheat, just to see what it could do.

To my surprise:

-It didn’t spit out a canned message.

-It make incredible connections and helped me think clearer.

-It gave me a structure I could actually preach from.

I still studied. Still prayed. Still wrote.

But I felt supported, not smothered.

AI wasn’t a shortcut. It was scaffolding.

It helped me rebuild my rhythm of sermon prep without losing my soul.

I thought using AI was lazy—until burnout hit. SermonDone didn’t replace me—it helped me preach clearly and stay faithful to my calling.