How to turn Sunday's sermon into daily devotionals
Start from the sermon your pastor already preached, then unfold its passage and call to action over six short days your people read on their phones.
Why the rest of the week matters
Sunday is one hour. The other six days are where a message either takes root or fades. A short daily devotional from the same sermon gives people a reason to come back to it and live it out.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
The church in Berea is a good picture of it. They didn't stop at hearing:
Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
Doing it by hand
Any church can do this with a volunteer and a couple of hours a week. Here's a simple way:
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Pick the one thing
Write down the main passage and the one thing the sermon asked people to do. Every day of the week should serve that.
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Split it into six short days
Each day takes one piece: a verse or two to read, a few lines that go a little deeper, one question, and a short prayer.
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Use the pastor's own words
Pull phrases, stories and examples from the sermon. People should hear Sunday again.
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Put it where people already are
A phone beats a printed page. Send it the same time each morning, by text, email or app, so it becomes part of the day.
One week is easy. Every week, on time, is hard when Monday already has a lot in it.
How Echo does it
Echo is what we built for churches that want this every week without adding to anyone's Monday. You send us your YouTube channel once. After that, Echo picks up each Sunday's sermon when it's posted and works from its transcript, so the week is built from your pastor's own message.
It unfolds that sermon across six days: the same passage, the same message, the same call to action, going a little deeper each day. Every day has audio, so people can listen on the drive. Your congregation reads it in the Flip the Script app, free, with a place to talk it over.
The week goes live Sunday night. If your pastor wants to read each week first, we set that up. If they ask to read it but don't get to it, it goes live anyway, so your people always have it. Any line can be changed by replying to an email.
Seacoast Church has used Echo since January: 41 sermons, more than 22,000 devotionals completed by over 1,000 people. See a week from Seacoast.
From $49 a month per church, every member free. Echo is sold by Wildfire Leadership LLC, the company that publishes the fts. app, and it helps keep the app free for everyone.
Common questions
Can AI turn a sermon into devotionals?
It can help, as long as it starts from the sermon itself. Echo works from the transcript of what your pastor actually preached, so the week carries what was said on Sunday.
Does the pastor have to write or approve anything?
No. Echo pulls the sermon from your church's YouTube channel and publishes the week on Sunday night. If your pastor wants to read each week before it goes live, that's one email to set up, and any line can be changed by replying to an email.
How long should a daily devotional be?
Short enough to read before the day gets busy. One passage, a few paragraphs, a question and a prayer is plenty. People keep going with something they can finish.
What does Echo cost?
Echo is priced per church, by weekly attendance: $49 a month for up to 250, $99 a month for 250 to 1,000, $199 a month for 1,000 to 3,000, above 3,000 it starts at $399. Every member uses it free. Echo is sold by Wildfire Leadership LLC, the company that publishes the fts. app, and it helps keep the app free for everyone.