I have seen many people mention about the sermon builder in Logos (throughout the faithlife platform) Is there a reason that the slide editor cannot be developed to be very similar to the editor in Proclaim?
If a selling point of Logos for ministers is the sermon manager (maybe it isn't? idk, it was for me), and the ability to publish sermons directly to proclaim from Logos, it kind of defeats the purpose to have to create slides in photoshop and upload, or log into proclaim after the fact and edit a bunch of stuff ( which (the edited content) DOES NOT show up in the preview of the Preach interface). What about pastors who do not have those types of skills? I have been blessed to work in careers that have helped me to gain those skills BUT what about the ones who have not? Also, any time I make a custom change (to text styles) in the sermon slide editor, and save it, it eventually reverts back.
I love Logos Bible Software and I Love Proclaim but I'm seriously considering dropping Logos since I find myself using other Bible Software a LOT more lately. The main appeal to me was the proclaim/Logos integration - and that is VERY lacking, imho.
Btw, I've been using proclaim since it FIRST came out. I have implemented it at EVERY church I've been at. The content editors in Proclaim are AWESOME! I have been able to train 12yr olds to use them without any issues. With that being said, I was kind of expecting the same kind of capabilities in the sermon builder's slide editor.
I do see where there have been comments six(ish) months ago where enhancements were coming but it would be great if this was a little bit of a priority. I have definitely heard A LOT of people complain about it. Hope I don't come across as harsh. I am a very direct person.
- Nathan, Thank you for your very honest post. Please know that I share a lot of this sentiment and understand it's a big need to help connect the Logos and Proclaim relationship together much better than what exists as of today. Recently, we have gathered the two development teams (Logos and Proclaim) together to map out the biggest needs to address this very issue and concern. Going forward, there will be much more intentional communication between these two teams so that at the forefront, we are always thinking about the entire sermon story from the very beginning of the planning process to the very final phase of the presentation and archiving of it. I will be following this post up with a personal email to you as I would very much enjoy discussing this matter further and gathering more specific ideas on how Logos-Proclaim can better be integrated that would help you and your ministry. We of course have many ideas already but I want to make sure yours are properly represented on the list. Again, thank you for your time to bring this up. We are definitely not running away from this issue, but instead are very committed to running directly at this issue to properly address it for the benefit of our users.