Point AskMyChurch at your sermon library and it builds the index — YouTube, podcast feed, or PDFs. Grounding is built in, not prompted.
Most tools that use this phrase mean something closer to: the AI reads your sermons once and then answers questions with them somewhere in mind. That is not the same as grounding — and the difference matters for a church.
Grounding means the assistant is only allowed to answer from your content. Not the internet. Not a general model's opinion about theology. Your published sermons, your website, your PDFs. If the answer is not there, the assistant says so and routes to a real person. It does not fill the gap.
AskMyChurch is built this way at the architecture level. The boundary is not a prompt instruction you write. It is how the system works.
You do not need transcripts ready or a document folder prepared. Point AskMyChurch at your sermon library and it builds the index.
Small libraries work. Large libraries work. A church with ten years of indexed messages will have a deeper Canon than one that launched last month, but both start answering real questions on day one.
Before any answer leaves the assistant, a second pass runs. It checks the answer against your content. If what the assistant drafted does not hold up, it does not go out. This is not a description of what good AI should do — it is a step built into the response pipeline.
Every answer includes a source link. Not a footnote at the bottom — the link is woven into the reply. If the answer came from a sermon, the link goes to that sermon. If it came from a web page, the link goes to that page. The person asking can check it immediately.
This is what makes it possible to put AI on a church site without the fear that it will misrepresent the pastor. The source is always visible.
There is no IT project. The church gets a link or a QR code to place on its site. AskMyChurch works with WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify, Framer, and Google Tag Manager. Point it at the sermon library, and the indexing runs from there.
It will not answer from the open internet. It will not speculate about doctrine or speak for the pastor when the sermons do not address something. It will say "I don't know" and hand off.
If a message signals acute distress — in English or Spanish — a hard-coded crisis check runs before any AI. Those messages route to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and the church's own care team. The assistant never attempts a pastoral or clinical response in a crisis.
Every plan includes the full assistant with the sermon Canon layer, citations, bilingual support, and the crisis gate. You choose by congregation size.
| Plan | Monthly | Congregation size |
|---|---|---|
| Base | $99 | Under 500 weekend attendance |
| Growth | $249 | 500–2,000 |
| Premium | $500 | 2,000+ or multi-campus |
Founding churches get free setup and a price locked for 12 months.
AskMyChurch is built by Vision Genesis in Knoxville, Tennessee. See a live demo at askmy.church.
No. AskMyChurch pulls timed captions from your YouTube channel or ingests your podcast RSS feed directly. You point it at the library and the indexing runs from there.
No. AskMyChurch is grounded only in your church's published content. If the answer is not there, the assistant says so and routes the person to a real member of your team.
Yes, and it links to the timestamp. When an answer comes from an indexed sermon, the source link points to the exact moment in the message, not just the video title.
A hard-coded crisis check runs before any AI processes the message. It routes to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, the Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and your church's own care team. The assistant does not attempt a pastoral or clinical response.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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