GuidesFor your staff

Approve a study guide

Read what Filament wrote, change what you like, and decide when it goes public.

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Find what is waiting

  1. Every sermon, in one table

    The Guide column shows where each guide stands: none, written and waiting, or live on the site.

    The staff console: a table of forty sermons with columns for date, title, preacher, series, themes, guide and hidden.
  2. Open a sermon that is waiting

    A circle means a guide has been written and nobody has approved it. It is not on the public site.

    Edit Our Daily Bread.

    The row for Our Daily Bread, whose guide is marked as written and awaiting review.
  3. Go to its guide

    The sermon's details open. The guide has its own editor.

    Edit the guide.

    The edit dialog for Our Daily Bread, with its themes, tags, series, preacher and summary.

Read it, change it

  1. The guide, and how it will look

    On the left, the three pages as fields you can change. On the right, the guide as your congregation will see it.

    The study guide editor: Page 1, Follow along, on the left, and a live preview on the right.
  2. Make it sound like your church

    Every line can be rewritten. Change a discussion question and the preview follows as you type.

    Type Who taught you to pray?

    Page 3, Take it home, with four discussion questions in editable fields.
  3. Save your changes

    Saving keeps your wording. If the guide is ever rewritten, you can go back to the original.

    Save the guide.

    The top of the editor, with buttons to revert, rewrite, approve and save.

Approve it

  1. Approve it for the site

    Approval is a decision a person makes. Nothing Filament writes is published without one.

    Approve the guide for the site.

    The editor after saving, with the Approve for site button beside Save guide.
  2. Approved, and waiting for a publish

    The guide is marked approved. It reaches the public site the next time you publish.

    The editor showing the guide as approved.

Emberwick Community Church is fictional. Its sermons were written for this demo.