Does an AI Assistant Fit a Presbyterian Church?

Yes — AskMyChurch answers only from your church's own website and sermons, so a session can inspect, approve, and constrain it before it goes live.

Yes — an AI assistant fits a Presbyterian church when the session can inspect it before it speaks for the congregation, and AskMyChurch is built for exactly that review. It answers only from your church's own website and sermons, so everything it can say is material your church has already published.

The session question, answered plainly

Session-governed churches don't adopt tools because the staff likes them. Elders ask: what will this thing say in our name, who controls that, and what happens when it fails? Those are the right questions, and they have concrete answers here.

AskMyChurch does not generate theology. It repeats what your church has already published and preached, with citations. If the answer isn't in your material, it says so and hands the conversation to a real person on your staff. It never invents an answer. That's the design: the front door of your church, always open — not a second pulpit.

What elders can inspect before launch

The corpus. The assistant draws only on your website and your sermons. There is no open-internet source and no generic theology database behind it. An elder who wants to know what the assistant "believes" can read your own site — that is the whole library.
The citations. When it references a sermon, it links to the exact minute of the recording. An elder checking its work clicks the link and hears the pastor's actual words, in context.
The refusal behavior. Ask it something your church has never addressed and it declines and routes to a human instead of improvising. Test this yourselves during the trial — that is what the trial is for.

A session can put all three on the table at one meeting, try to break the assistant with hard questions, and read exactly where every answer came from.

Guardrails that are hard-coded, not configurable

Some protections should not depend on a setting somebody remembered to turn on. If a visitor mentions self-harm, AskMyChurch surfaces 988 and the Crisis Text Line — in English and in Spanish — before any AI response is generated. That routing is hard-coded. Neither your staff nor ours can switch it off. For a board weighing pastoral responsibility and liability, that is the difference between a policy and a guarantee.

The assistant is also bilingual, English and Spanish end to end, including that crisis routing — which matters if your congregation or your neighborhood is.

Doctrine stays where your polity puts it

Presbyterian polity assigns teaching authority to ordained officers, not to software. AskMyChurch's constraint model matches that: it can only cite what the pulpit has already said and what the church has already written. What your church publishes is what the assistant can say — nothing more. Preach a new series and it can cite it — down to the minute. The session governs the assistant by governing the sources, and governing the sources is work the session already does.

What the review costs

Pricing is by weekend attendance: $99 per month under 500, $249 per month for 500–2,000, and $500 per month for 2,000+ or multi-campus. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and cancels anytime. In practice that means a session can put a working assistant in front of the congregation's real questions, read the transcripts, and take a vote before a single dollar is committed.

See one working before the meeting

We build working previews of churches ahead of any conversation, so a session can evaluate a live example instead of a sales deck. As of this writing there are previews awaiting their church's claim in Atlanta (84), Nashville (79), Charlotte (63), Columbia, SC (60), Charleston, SC (53), and Knoxville (38). If your church is in one of those metros, a preview built from your own public website and sermons may already exist. Claim it at askmy.church, run it past the session, and keep it only if it earns the vote.

Frequently asked

Can our session review AskMyChurch before it goes live?

Yes. AskMyChurch answers only from your church's own website and sermons, cites sermons to the exact minute, and starts with a 30-day free trial, so elders can test it against real questions and vote before any money is committed.

What happens if someone in crisis messages the assistant?

AskMyChurch surfaces 988 and the Crisis Text Line, in English and Spanish, before any AI response is generated. That routing is hard-coded — neither church staff nor the vendor can turn it off.

Will AskMyChurch invent theological answers our church never taught?

No. It only repeats what your church has published and preached, with citations, and if the answer isn't in your material it says so and hands the conversation to a real person on your staff.

How much does AskMyChurch cost?

$99 per month for churches under 500 in weekend attendance, $249 for 500–2,000, and $500 for 2,000+ or multi-campus — every plan with a 30-day free trial, a money-back guarantee, and cancel-anytime terms.