Scripture stays the authority.
AI can help you study. It doesn’t interpret the Bible for you, and every reference is checked before it reaches the congregation.
A ready-to-adopt AI policy for your church.
Your staff and volunteers are already using AI to write emails, plan events and prepare to teach. This free template gives them clear, biblical guardrails, so your church can use AI with wisdom, accountability and care.
It’s yours.
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- Fill in your church’s name and the people responsible.
- Take it to your leadership to discuss and adopt.
- Ask everyone who uses AI for church work to read and sign it.
Everything your leadership needs to decide.
Thirteen short sections in plain English, with space to name who is responsible at your church.
A tool, never a pastor.
Clear lines on preaching, pastoral care and counseling. AI can’t pray, and it’s never presented as speaking for God.
Protect what people trust you with.
A plain list of what never goes into an AI tool: prayer requests, pastoral notes, giving records, member data, and anything about children.
Know the risk before you start.
Low, medium and high-risk uses, and what each one requires, from brainstorming a sermon series to anything involving safeguarding.
People decide about people.
AI never decides hiring, volunteers, membership, discipline or care. AI agents can recommend, but a person approves.
Ready to adopt.
A reporting process that doesn’t punish good-faith mistakes, an annual review, and a sign-off page for leaders, staff and volunteers.
We’ve had to answer these questions ourselves.
Uplift is a Scripture-grounded companion app for everyday Christians. Building it meant deciding, in writing, what AI should and shouldn’t do in the life of faith. We publish those decisions in our AI principles and our Statement of Faith.
This template takes what we’ve learned and shapes it for the local church. Christians have always taken up new tools for the gospel, from the codex to the printing press. The church belongs in this conversation, and we’d love your help testing and sharpening it.
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