This is me sharing a note of mine… forgive grammar/formatting or general lack of context.

Explanation thread:

As for the Custom GPT — I lead a church small group. Often, the church provides sermon-based small group questions, but we operate in "semesters", so in between semesters there are no questions provided (the assumption is that small groups take breaks then, but we're weirdos)

— Justin Sternberg (@Jtsternberg) September 6, 2024

Get Youtube video transcription for message

1. Go to the Generations Church youtube
2. Go to the sermon video
3. Click into the video description
4. Click “Show Transcript”
5. Use the new download button (thanks to this extension)

(or manually generate youtube video transcription with this tool)

AI Question Generation

First, upload the transcript txt file to the AI chat.

Aside: I’ve created a custom GPT specialized for this purpose: Group Guide Helper — It’s connected to the NLT API (explanation thread), so you can prompt it for exact passages in the Bible

Next, you’ll prompt using similar prompts to the below.

Prompt Question:

Can you review this sermon transcript and generate some discussion questions for my small group, which consists of 20-30 year old singles and young married couples? We won’t have time to discuss more than 10 questions (if that). So please keep fairly concise (but not shallow!)

And sometimes necessary follow-up:

Can you add in there somewhere for us to read the Bible passage(s) that the speaker covers? Also, the icebreaker doesn’t feel relevant to the message?

The icebreaker question comes from the custom GPT directives.