A small group questions app built on Sunday's sermon

Prepser turns the sermon you preached into discussion questions for your small groups. Record or import the sermon, or build a prep from your study notes, and the questions come from what you actually said, with your passage, your illustrations and your application. Copy them into the group chat or share them with your leaders in one tap.

Where: Notes → Questions · Preps → Questions · Home → Small-group questions
Starts from: A recorded or imported sermon, or a prep with linked notes
Free plan: 3 prep generations and 30 AI chat messages a month

Why questions should come from the sermon you preached

Most small group questions are written from the passage, which is fine until the sermon took the passage somewhere specific. Then the group discusses a different message from the one the church heard on Sunday. Questions built from your own sermon keep the week connected: the same big idea, the same story, the same step of obedience, now talked over in a living room instead of heard from a pew.

That is also why leaders like them. A leader who missed Sunday can see from the questions where the sermon went, and a new leader does not have to invent a study from scratch on Tuesday night.

Three ways to get small group questions in Prepser

1. From a recorded sermon

On Home, tap Record a sermon and preach with your phone on the pulpit, or tap Import a sermon to bring in a recording you already have (M4A, MP3 or WAV).
Prepser transcribes the sermon and builds its material in the note: Key Points, Outline, Scripture, Prayer and Questions, among others.
Open the note in Notes and tap Questions. Tap Copy to paste them into a message, or Share to send them to your leaders.

How the recording itself works, from the pulpit or from a file, is on sermon transcription and notes.

2. From a prep: questions for the week's study

Open Preps, tap + and create a New Prep. For the sermon itself choose Sunday Message; for a group's own meeting choose Small Group, Bible Study, Youth or Leadership training.
Tap Edit next to the linked notes and add what the questions should draw on: the recorded sermon, a scanned commentary page, your typed study notes.
Tap the generate button for the prep's type, for example Generate Sermon Artifacts or Generate Small Group Artifacts. The prep gets a Questions tab built from everything you linked, next to key points and the other material for that type.

A Devotional prep gets Scripture, teachings, key points and prayer, but no discussion questions, because a devotional is usually read alone.

3. From Home, for any sermon in your library

On Home, under Build from a sermon, tap Small-group questions.
In Choose a sermon, pick the sermon or prep.
AI Chat opens on that sermon and writes the questions. Ask for changes in the same conversation: fewer questions, questions for teenagers, one question per point.

The rows under Build from a sermon unlock once your library has a sermon of your own: draft, organize or record one first.

Real questions from Prepser

These are four of the eight discussion questions in the sample Sunday Message prep that comes with every new Prepser library: “Come to Me, All Who Are Weary”, a nine-minute sermon on Matthew 11:28–30. They appear here as the app shows them.

When was the last time you admitted, out loud, that you were tired in your soul? What made it hard to say?
Nicodemus had every religious qualification and still came to Jesus at night (John 3:1–2). What do you think he was tired of, and what would you bring if you came the same way?
Why does Jesus offer a yoke rather than removing one? What would letting him set the pace look like in one concrete area of your week?
Matthew 11:29 is the only time Jesus describes his own heart. How different is "gentle and lowly" from the Jesus you picture after you've failed?

Notice the second question. Nicodemus is not in Matthew 11: he comes from a scanned page on John 3 that the pastor linked to the prep. The questions draw on everything in the prep, not only the passage, so they sound like the sermon the group heard.

Prefer to write them yourself? The small group discussion questions template gives a fill-in structure, from an opening question to a closing prayer, with a worked example.

Make the questions fit your group

Cut to what fits the evening. A group that meets for an hour rarely gets through more than four or five questions. Pick one opening question, two or three that work the passage, and one that ends in a step for the week.
Ask for a different audience. In AI Chat, ask for the same questions for a youth group, for new believers, or for a men's breakfast. The answer still comes from your sermon.
Add prayer. A Sunday Message prep also builds Prayer points from the sermon, a natural way to close the group.
Check them before you send them. They are a starting point. You know your groups, and a question that works in one living room may not land in another.

Frequently asked

Is there a free app for small group questions from a sermon?

Yes. Prepser is free to start. The Free plan includes 3 prep generations, 30 AI chat messages, 3 sermon drafts and 3 study notes a month, and the allowance resets on the first day of each month. A recorded sermon gets its questions with the rest of its material. Prepser Pro removes the monthly limits; see pricing.

How many questions does Prepser write?

It depends on the sermon. The sample prep has eight questions and each sample note has seven. If you need fewer, ask in AI Chat for the four best for a one-hour group, or simply pick the ones that fit and copy those. Questions from Home come back in AI Chat, so you can ask for more or fewer in the same conversation.

Can I get questions from an old sermon?

Yes. Import the recording with Import a sermon on Home, and Prepser transcribes it and builds its questions. Or tap Small-group questions on Home and choose any sermon or prep already in your library. This helps when a group goes back through a series you preached last year.

Can my small group leaders use the questions without the app?

Yes. Tap Copy and paste the questions into a group message or an email, or tap Share to send them through any app on your iPhone or iPad. Leaders do not need Prepser or an account to read them.

Updated November 11, 2026 · App steps checked against Prepser 1.1.7. Sample questions from the sample prep in Prepser. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.