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Assessment

How AI-ready is your ministry?

Fifteen honest questions, two minutes, and a readiness level with a recommended starting path through the Accelerator.

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Prospectus

The digital course prospectus

The full programme in one document: modules, credential levels and learning hours.

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Framework

The SHEPHERD prompting method

Situation, Holy Scripture/Source, Expected outcome, People, How, Exclusions, Review, Deliverable — the structure taught in Module M3.

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From the prompt vault

Three prompts you can use this week.

The full vault of 150 prompts across 10 categories comes with enrolment.

Sermon Preparation

One-page sermon research brief

You are my sermon research assistant. I am preaching [passage] to [congregation] on [occasion]. Produce a one-page brief covering: (a) the immediate literary context, (b) author, original audience and occasion, (c) three to four exegetical observations drawn only from the text, (d) the central theological claim in one sentence, and (e) two common misreadings to avoid. Use only the passage I gave you — add no outside quotations, statistics or church-history claims. Mark anything you are unsure of with 'VERIFY'. End with a short list of items I should confirm in a commentary before Sunday.

Sermon Preparation

Establish the literary context

Act as an exegesis partner. For [passage], map how it sits inside its chapter and book: what comes immediately before and after, the flow of the author's argument, and the genre (narrative, poetry, epistle, prophecy, wisdom). Explain how the genre should shape the way I preach it. Do not allegorise or import New Testament meaning into an Old Testament text unless the text itself invites it. Flag any interpretive decision where honest scholars disagree, and tell me plainly rather than smoothing it over.

Sermon Preparation

Build a cross-reference web

Give me a structured set of cross-references for [passage], grouped as: (1) texts it directly quotes or alludes to, (2) texts that develop the same theme, and (3) texts that appear to stand in tension and need careful handling. For each reference give the citation and one line on why it connects. Do not invent references — if you are not confident a verse exists or says what I need, leave it out and say so. I will check every citation against my Bible.

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