Jan. 5, 2025

2025: AI and the Church Pt 2

2025: AI and the Church Pt 2

We continue our discussion about the AI and the future of the church

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We continue our discussion about the AI and the future of the church

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All right, First Chronicles twelve thirty two. This is the

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key verse for last Hour. We're going to at least

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go back read it one more time. I'm not going

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to go back and teach everything about it. We looked

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at its context, but we'll get the basic idea. First

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Chronicles twelve thirty two, and of the children of Issachar,

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which were men that had what number one, understanding of

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the times? Number two to know what Israel ought to do.

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These were men who understood the times and knew what

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Israel ought to do. And we are referring to this.

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We are talking about this and the context of artificial intelligence,

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its rise, and our current and our present time, and

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what it means for the church moving forward. All right,

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whether we like it or not, AI is not a trend.

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It's here to stay. It's not going away, and it's

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going to have a it's already having a profile impact,

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but it's going to have a profound impact on Christianity

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in the church in the future. There will be the

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older generation that will push back, be fearful of it,

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will refuse to use it, whatever the case may be.

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But they're going to be gone, all right. And once

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they're gone, the next generation is coming forward, and I

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believe within probably ten years, I don't think we're going

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to even recognize things. As far as how AI has

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impacted Christianity, I have made my thesis statement is whether

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we want to admit it or not, and the church

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may not want to admit it. AIS. Now listen, as

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far as churches who are non sacramental, right, everybody understand

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that a sacrament is a visible means of grace. If

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you're a sacramental church, you have to come to church

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to receive what the sacraments. You need those sacraments spiritually speaking,

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So then the church will always be relevant because AI

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cannot do that. Everybody got that. If you believe the

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church is more about community and holding hands and singing

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Kumbai yah and the social feature, then the church will

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always be relevant because the church can get together and

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do all of the community community stuff and everybody will

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love it and be happy. Right, But as far as

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the preaching and teaching of God's Word in depth exegetical

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teaching that is accurate, that is still logically sound, there's

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some depth to it, AI makes the church absolutely irrelevant.

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That is the point. So it all depends on your

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view of the church and how this is going to

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play itself out right. So in the first hour we

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looked at so much I can't even believe how much

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stuff we covered in one hour. We covered a lot.

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We went through first Chronicles twelve thirty two. We broke

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that completely down its historical context. We did all of that,

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and then we just started looking at AI and how

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the Sons of Visa car kind of fit in with AI,

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and how it raises some questions. We asked all kinds

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of questions. Then we took a step back and we

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looked at how God gave illumination in the past before

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the completion of Scripture. Then we came all the way

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up to the completion of Scripture. We saw how things

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broke into two streams, the church versus the individual. The

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Bible kind of gets caught in the middle, and then

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we added into Bible. So if you want to look

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at some of the main points we covered at the

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end of the first hour, we looked at how God

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provided illumination and discernment in the past all right before

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the completion of Scripture. God's guidance was given directly through profits, apostles, visions,

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and miracles, these were unique circumstances distinct from today's post

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scripture reality. We looked at biblical examples of that. Then

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we looked at the completion of scripture as the final authority.

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We looked at that, we looked at the historical shift.

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We broke that down. So now we come to number three.

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Why we must focus on interpretation not illumination. Since the

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completion of scripture, the focus must be on faithful interpretation

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rather than expecting supernatural illumination or guidance. Now, most Christians

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disagree with this. They still believe, Oh, God gave me this,

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or God showed me this, or God helped me understand this,

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or God gave me the sermon. That's just look if

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if you go into that, it's subjective, it's crazy. And

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what do we know. Isn't it weird that God is

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supposedly helping this person understand scripture. God is supposedly helping

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this person understand scripture, and they don't. What agree? Someone's

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lying And I'm gonna tell you both of them are lying.

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God is not guiding or helping either one of the individuals.

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What are we left to do? Take the Bible that's

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in a written form and figure it out utilizing the

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basic rules of interpretation called hermeneutics. Right, that's what we

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must do. Everyone understands. I cannot stress that enough. Everybody

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got that. We must focus on that when we talk

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about interpretation versus illumination. Interpretation is the responsible study of scripture,

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considering context, history and language. As Protestants, every Christian must

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be what if we're truly honest with our Protestant belief system.

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Every Christian must be an expert in that if we

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really hold to our Protestant tradition, we don't really hold

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to that right, but it should be why Because as Protestants,

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what do we believe that the individual has the power,

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the right, and the authority to only interpret the Bible,

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but to do what to tell the pastor rather is

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right or wrong. Now, if you're going to have that right,

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and you're going to have that authority, then what must

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come with that the expertise in order to do that. Now,

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I know that that's never been really carried out, but

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that's the case. Now. Illumination, the way most people teach

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it implies that the believers receive divine insight into the

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meaning of the text. However, history shows this idea has

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led to contradictory interpretations and church splits. There's no question

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about that. We are not getting illumination. Everybody got it.

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If you want illumination, read the Bible, and then the

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Bible illuminates you. God is not giving you illumination. Right,

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everybody understands there is no illumination coming from there. Right. However,

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here we go, are we right? This is what we

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so we've gone from where we are today. So where

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we are today and a non Catholic church is that

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this is supposedly the authority right there for those listening online,

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I'm holding up my Bible. The Bible is the authority.

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It's the sole authority. And that the primary purpose of

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the church is to equip saints and the study interpretation

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of scripture. And that you, as an individual, has the

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responsibility to so master this that you can discern with

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what being preaches rather true or false. That's a lot

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of responsibility and a lot of people. However, something is changing,

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something is changing dramatically. All right. There is an article

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and I can't access the article here right now because

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I forgot we don't have internet here. I have the

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link here, and I was going to click on the

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link and open it up, and I can't. But so

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I'm just gonna have to try to explain it to you.

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The name of the article is the Intersection of AI

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and Spirituality. This article came out just a couple of

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days ago, all right, and here's a little bit about it.

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The article at the Intersection of AI and Spirituality discusses

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how religious leaders are already integrating artificial intelligence into their pices,

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including are you ready for this? Sermon prep and sermon delivery.

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This development directly relates to our discussion about the future

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role of pastors an error where AI can generate sermons

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and provide theological insights. In fact, AI has the ability

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and once it learns my voice, it can construct a

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sermon based off my preaching style and deliver it sounding

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exactly like me, making me obsolete. That's awesome. Okay, So

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here's some of the key connections AI generated sermons. The

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article mentions an individual who used an AI chatbot trained

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on his previous sermons to create a new sermon delivered

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in his voice. And he literally had the service and

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d AI preached a sermon. I think he sat there.

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Isn't that crazy? This example illustrates how AI can produce

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sermons that closely mimic a pastor's style and content, aligning

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with r and this aligns with the discussion of the

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potential for AI to generate sermons accessible to both pastors

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and congregants. So really, a pastor, he can just tell

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them AI, you already know how I preach. You already

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know what I believe. I need a sermon on this today.

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We're in Isaiah forty in the past, and it could

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literally produce a sermon on the next part of Isaiah

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forty in my style, in my voice, like, do you

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not understand the impact of that? Now? This? Then? So

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AIS you already see? Then we're we're ventured into a

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brave new world, right, I mean I can't even process

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where we are right now. So then this brings up

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the issue of accessibility of theological insight. With AI tools

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capable of conducting philological research and assisting in sermon writing,

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both pastors and those in the congregat congregation can access

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the same level of scriptural analysis and interpretation within minutes.

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If you all using chat GPT right right now, I

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could say chat GPT all right. First Chronicles twelve thirty two.

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All right, ask AI this right, give me a analysis, summary,

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out line, interpretation, and exegetical breakdown of first chronicles twelve

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thirty two. Sit down and guess what. You would have

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all of it within literally through two minutes maybe a minute,

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and it would be better than anything I could produce.

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That's yeah, well they're they're there. That's where we're going.

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Now that's going to be the question. But I want

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to just make sure you understand that. All right, So, uh,

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this making it available to everyone well supports the idea

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that congregants might independently explore scriptural interpretations you using AI,

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and may completely destroy the traditional sermon dynamics. Give us

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something you well, if it knows me, it could Yeah,

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if you if you gave them access to all of

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my sermons, which you could upload, like a number of them,

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it could probably produce a sermon in my style. Yeah,

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because you can. You can give a link to AI

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and say, study the style of this individual right to

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say my sermon's not the podcast, and you could give

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it like seven, eight, ten, and then you can say,

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now produce a sermon on this scripture and that style,

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and it probably would. You wouldn't even need me. That's crazy.

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Does everyone understand that what we're looking at here? Okay?

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All right? As AI takes on tests like sermon writing

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and theological research, the role of pastors may shift. Are

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you ready even a Now this is where they're already

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saying it's headed. This is an analysis of the article, right,

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and some of it's from the article. Okay, so a

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little bit of both. What's going to happen is they're

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seeing a shift is going to take place. Pastors are

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no longer going to be needed for preaching and teaching.

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Pastors are going to be there to kind of facilitate

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community counsel if they, if they, if anybody at wants counsel.

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People only want counsel from pastors until pastors disagree with them. Right,

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But like the past Basically, what the article is saying

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is a pastor is going to find a new job

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because you really don't need me. As soon as I

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tell you what the text is, you can you can

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already be looking it up on your phone and already

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have in your hand better than anything I can preach

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to you other than my my personality, but everything else

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you get, in fact, you would get all the good

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without my bad personality, you'd be even better off. Yeah. None. Right,

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So this integration of AI into religious practices raises question

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is about authenticity, the nature of spiritual guidance, the potential

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loss of personal connection and worship. These concerns echo concerns

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about the implications of AI generated sermons and the importance

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of maintaining the human element and spiritual leadership. All right,

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So the bottom line is it's started, it's already begun,

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and what right now? A lot of people just like

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to play with it, right, just like have a little

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bit of fun. There were some pastors going about a

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year ago, maybe two years ago, maybe even three years ago,

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they would have AI put together the entire worship service,

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and then they would do they would say, here's the prayer.

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AI wants us to open with, here's this hymns. AI

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wants us to sing, here's the closing prayer. And so

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they would do like a service like that, and everybody's like, oh,

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that's cute. Nobody realizes there's nothing cute about this. This

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is changing everything. So it's got to go from cute

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till we got to understand the profound impact on this,

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all right. Eight, So here we are now we are

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in the AI era. Let's just go ahead and say

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we are in the AI era, So how do we

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move forward? Right? How do we move the It's happened,

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ladies and genmen, we're here. So you see how we

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got here? Right? We start off with God revealing divine

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revelation to people in very specific ways. Right then the church,

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really everything kind of splits into two streams. You have

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the church maintaining apostolic succession and authority, and then it

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becomes really an issue about the individual. Scripture gets kind

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of somewhere lost in between. And now we have a

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third stream, which is how is AI going to fit

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into this model? Now you can already can you already

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see where it's going to go? If I mean again,

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you need to be like the children of Essacar, right,

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the sons of esta Car. You need to be understand

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the times and know what to do. Can you see

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now how AI is going to impact these two streams?

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Do you not see the immediate result? Does anybody want

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to say what's going to happen? You already have this individual,

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individualistic mindset versus the authority of the church. Right, is

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that are not already clearly present can you imagine now

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how AI impacts that I've already said. I can take

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a sermon. I can be listening to a sermon and

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within seconds know with what the preacher is saying is

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true or false literally and set forget a Google search.

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I can find out in seconds everything the pastor is

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saying is right or wrong. Just like that, thank you.

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AI will become the authority. There we go, not just hey,

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I will become the authority. That's that's literally where we

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because I'm telling you right now, I can go to

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an audio right now, you can pick any sermon. I

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can take the transcript, upload it to AI and simply

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ask it what are the factual errors, logical errors, historical errors,

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textual errors, and it will give me pages of all

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depending on how many errors in this sermon. It will

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break it down logical ones, factual, linguistic, history, textual, and

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it will it will just rip it into shreds and seconds. Well,

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then who becomes the authority the pastor authority that pastors

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don't realize it? You can be literally fact checked in

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real time. Now before I had to go home and

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fact check the pastor, right, I mean, there's been multiple

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times where pastor has says stuff, and I had to

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go home. Try to go look it up right now?

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to a Google search and try to go which website.

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everything in seconds. The pastor's authority is done, ladies and gentlemen.

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The pastor is no longer the authority to anyone who

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believes the past I've been saying it for what twenty years,

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that the pastor has no authority the path go just take.

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We just need to have a funeral. Pastoral authority bury it.

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It's dead. AI is the authority. Young people will know it.

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Older people won't catch on to that yet, but older people,

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and it's the and I hate to say it, it's

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the older generation who rejected pastoral authority. The older generation

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fought and yelled and complained and argued during sermons with pastors.

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There was no point. Pastors already lost their authority. So

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don't get mad now that AI just went ahead and

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killed it, all right. The older generation would argue and

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argue and argue and argue and argue and argue. AI

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just says, let me just let me just finish it off.

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AI is like, I'll put them down for good. You

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have to see that. Okay, so you're ready, Let's just

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kind of really build this now. I think you're getting

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an idea of where this is going. All right, are

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you ready? So let's ask this what is AI? Give

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me your answer? What is AI? Okay, I'll go. I'll

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just gott to give you a more technical one, all right.

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AI are known as artificial intelligence, refers to computer systems

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that can perform task right requiring human intelligence, such as

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problem solving, language processing, decision making. AI is used in

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tools like Bible apps, chatbots, search engines, and personalized study recommendations.

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So basically, it's a computer system that can basically do

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what human intelligence can do. It just does it as

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artificial intelligence. So whatever human intelligence can perform, AI can perform.

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I will say, AI can do it faster, quicker, better,

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which is awesome. There's no forgetting. That's one of the

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most amazing things with my chat GPT, Like I don't

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even know how long the thread is now from our discussion,

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my discussion ongoing discussion between about Isaiah forty through fifty five,

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I can step into that chat right now because I

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can pull it up. Well, I can't connect to the internet.

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I don't have to go reminded of anything. It knows

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everything we have discussed about Isaiah forty through fifty five.

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It remembers anything. I can just pick up the conversation.

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Like if I was talking to you, i'd have to

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remind you what we've been talking about. I don't have

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to remind I can just start the conversation right now,

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and it will. And we started the conversation with me

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and AI on Isaiah forty through fifty five, almost six

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months ago. It remembers everything. In fact, it will you

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even bring things up in other conversations about my discussion

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Isaiah forty through fifty five. That's perfect intelligence, right amen?

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All right, So so here are so that's kind of

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what AI is. Let me give you, basically quickly, about

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ten ways most of you have encountered and you've used

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AI and you didn't even realize it, right, I'll give

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you about ten different ways, all right. Anything you use

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that gives you some kind of personal recommendation, right, if

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you use Netflix and it suggests a show that you

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may like that's based on analyzing your watch history, Okay,

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if you're using Spotify or YouTube and a recommend man's

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an album or a song or a video tailored to

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your preference because AI has analyzed and starting to know

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your preference. Right. AI's well algorithms analyze past behavior to

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predict and suggest content. AI watch in any and many

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websites you go to. It's watching your behavior, and it's

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going to send things to you that it knows that

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most likely you're going to be interested in. That's AI.

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people say I'm never going to use AI, you're already

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using it. If you're on the Internet, you're using it.

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If you have Netflix, you're using it. In music streaming service,

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you're using it. If you use YouTube, you're using it.

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have already been using it, right, And why do people

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not notice it? Because it feels like just a smart

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feature rather than AI working behind the scenes. You're like, oh,

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this is cool. It's AI working behind the scenes. It's

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getting to know you. Now. Some people love that, some

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people hate that. I loathe They say I love AI,

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but I hate A when it comes to music streaming services.

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So That's why I have multiple music streaming services right

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because I don't. I don't want AI to give me

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what it thinks I want because I want to because

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then you miss out on things like you can be

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on some start. I'm like, wait, how did I miss

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that album? Because AI was just feeding me other albums.

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I want. I don't need you to tell me. When

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it comes to music, then I get ticked off, right,

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I don't need so I like anything like thumbs up,

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thumbs down likes. I won't do any I won't touch

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it because I don't want AI to figure out anything

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because I basically like, if I can talk to AI,

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I want to know every album in every genre that

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is released. I want to see everything. Don't limit it.

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People with limited musical likes have mental problems. Okay, you

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should like everything, right, that's don't do that to me.

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So that's where I don't like AI right now. When

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it comes to movies and television, that's fine. I don't

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care if I live it limits there. I can handle that,

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just not with music. So but that's already my involvement

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right there. Everyone's already dealt with that correct, all right?

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For example, how about social media feeds and ads? If

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you use Facebook, if you use Instagram, if you use TikTok,

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it shows post and ads based on your engagement patterns.

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If you look at this kind of post, guess what

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it's going to give you more of those kinds of post.

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That's what it does, right, It will give you ads

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tailored to your recent searches or clicks because it's watching

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what you do, right, It's watching what you do, and

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so like, oh, they looked at that, Oh, here's an

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ad for this, because it's Oh, it's crazy. That's I mean,

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it's already happening. Machine learning algorithms determine what content to

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show you based on your activity and preferences. Why do

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people not notice? They just think it's part of the

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app design. I don't really know that that's AI working

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in the background. It's already been there and like you,

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Stephen said, this stuff has been around forever. Another example,

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anyone ever you see E don't come on right Alexa, Google,

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Google Assistant. I can game a number of these whenever

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you ask any of these things to answer questions and

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perform tasks. Smart homes, whether it controls lights or thermostats,

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or sends out reminders. All of that is AI, all right.

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AI's natural language processing and machine learning enable virtual assistants

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to understand commands and improve over time. They just kind

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of see this as a helpful thing. I don't see

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that's AI. You're already using it. It's so weird. Like

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if I'll talk about AI, some people will be like,

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I just don't know about that. I'm like, what, You've

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been using it for ten years? What do you mean

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now you don't know about it? Like I don't. It's

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the natural progression. Oh, absolutely, yeah, yeah, you don't even

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know what's going on behind the scenes. Right. Other things,

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for example, email spam filters and smart replies, Gmail or

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Outlook filter spam out of your email. Guess what that's AI.

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Something's got to determine that it's what spam right. Or

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it may suggest a quick reply to an email, Guess

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what's doing that's AI. Auto generated subject lines or predictive

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text suggestions, and sometimes you'll start typing and they'll give

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you what's next. That's AI. People use this stuff all

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the time. AI scans content, identifies patterns in phishing attempts,

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suggests context based responses because people don't think about this stuff.

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But it's AI, all right, I got anybody ever use GPS, okay,

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Google Maps, ways providing real time route optimization and traffic updates.

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Ride share apps like uber lift estimates a rival time

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and suggests faster routes. Door Dash I use. I use

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door Dash this morning for breakfast. Boarded it and there

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showing me where who picked it up, where they're going. Okay,

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they're approaching your house. Now that's all AI. Right, So

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what do we want to And I can go on

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and on. I got I got lists and list of things.

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Here's what I want you to know, whether you know

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it or not, AI is being used all the time. Right,

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So now this brings us to AI and where the church?

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The church? So how does AI show up for us? Well,

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here's what we're gonna do a little bit of work

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on here. Right. I want you to see AI now

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as a philological at least I want to call it

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a resource. I almost want to call it AI as

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your theological authority. I think that's kind of what's going

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to become. But let's look at some things AI can do.

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You're ready. It can access and process information quickly, AI

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can access millions of articles, commentaries, philological papers, and translations

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in seconds. AI can access millions of theological articles, millions

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of commentaries, millions of theological papers, and millions of translations.

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And there's not millions of translations, but any translation out there.

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And they can do all of that in mere seconds.

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By the time it takes me to go find one commentary,

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open it up and find the relevant page, AI has

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already looked at every available commentary in existence that it

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has access to. That's crazy comprehensive searches. AI can provide

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exhaustive cross referencing. If I need cross referencing. AI can

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do cross referencing better than I ever could write historical

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background seconds, linguistic analysis seconds and at no page has

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to be flipped. I don't have to look at any book.

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It does it all for me. And guess what not

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only will it do it all for me, guess what

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else it will do. Put it in a very organized structure.

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I don't have to go copy something down. Nothing that's

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right there all right. A pastor may spend hours and

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researching multiple sources. AI can summarize all of that information

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two or three seconds. I can spend hours just trying

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to find go through that one commentary, figure out work

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it here, try to work out the idea. AI can

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do it all for me in seconds. And guess what

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it's gonna do it better. It's gonna do it better

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a right it can Guess what AI can also do.

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It can analyze original languages accurately, Greek and Hebrew parsing.

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AI can break down verb forms, syntax, grammar instantly, even

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for those without any formal language training. I don't need

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formal language training. It can break it down perfectly. And

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you know how many sermons where I hear over and

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over things said about the Greek and Hebrew that are

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just complete fraudulent lies. How many times you, if you've

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listened to my sermon reviews, how many times I'll be like,

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let's look that up. And I'll be like, that's not

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in the Greek, that's not in the Hebrew, that's nowhere

460
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to be found. It's a sermon. In many cases, guess

461
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what I'm using to verify it? In any cases, I'm

462
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using AI. Sometimes I'm using an intilinear to look it up.

463
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But if I want to go quicker for the sermon review,

464
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I just asked AI, and AI could be like, that's

465
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completely fraugil, and I don't know where that comes from.

466
00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:18.839
This is not true word studies. Well, I've taught everyone

467
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.240
here how to do a word study right. AI can

468
00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:24.160
provide nuanced meaning of words, including how they're used to

469
00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:29.599
cross different biblical contexts in seconds. AI can quickly show

470
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how the word agape is used across scripture and compare

471
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its usage to other Greek text within seconds. Remember back

472
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in the old days, if anyone ever spent serious time

473
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doing Bible study with the strongs concordance, it took forever,

474
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literally forever. Then finally we started getting the new tools,

475
00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:55.480
but in some cases it was still easier just to

476
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:59.119
use the strongs concordance. Finally and that became easier and easier.

477
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But now with now, with AI, I don't even if

478
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:06.240
I can do it. I just tell it what I

479
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.920
want and it'll give me exactly what I want within seconds.

480
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Provide historical and cultural context, comprehensive background. AI can pull

481
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from archaeological findings, historical records, and scholarly interpretations to provide

482
00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:23.000
context for a passage and do it within seconds. You

483
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:26.599
know how hard it is to find context for a passage.

484
00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:30.839
I gotta go find what a commentary, and then I

485
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gotta trust that the commentary is giving me the correct background.

486
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And how many times I've preached what's in a commentary

487
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and come to find out that that background information is

488
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completely fraudulent. AI can go verify and check a million commentaries,

489
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and it's comparing it with what other scholarly information. So

490
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it can be like, well, we got a conflict here.

491
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I would not find the conflict until what who knows when?

492
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:06.400
May not ever. Timeline and events. AI can create a

493
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historical timeline of biblical events and show how they fit

494
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in within broader history. I can like, Okay, what's the

495
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timeline here? How does it fit in with what was

496
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:17.640
going on elsewhere? And it can show me the two

497
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in five seconds. I can't do that, Hey, I, but

498
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I'm saying I couldn't. All right, a set of spending

499
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hours piecing together Roman history to understand Paul's letters, AI

500
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:33.400
can generate a concise overview of the Roman world in

501
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:39.160
Paul's time. They can just do it instantaneously. It can

502
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:45.519
compare theological perspectives, multi denominational insights. AI can present interpretations

503
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:50.359
from Reformed, Armenian, Catholic Orthodox, and give me all the

504
00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:57.440
interpretations and seconds and seconds. I can say, okay, how

505
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do all the different I can even ask it this,

506
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how has this passage been understood throughout Church history? And

507
00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:08.039
it will take me through every period of church history

508
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and tell me how it was understood. I would not

509
00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:16.679
be able to pull that off. All of this it

510
00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:19.320
can do more and better than I could ever do. So.

511
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AI can summarize key theological disputes Arianism versus niceeing a

512
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:28.760
Christianity and show how they developed over time. I can say, hey,

513
00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:31.320
what's the historical debate? What happened? It can show me

514
00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:34.719
this side, this side, here's the development, here's the development.

515
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:40.159
It can break it all down. But guess what it does.

516
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:47.880
It can do this for me. There you go. It

517
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:50.000
can do it for you. Where you're sitting in the pew,

518
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:56.719
I cannot even be done with my introduction, and you

519
00:34:56.760 --> 00:35:00.480
could already have it all the study are. You can

520
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:03.800
just get up and walk out. You can just be like, okay,

521
00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:06.320
we're done, thanks. You can just be walking out. Everybody

522
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:09.039
looking at their phones. I don't know why we come

523
00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:12.920
here for you. You're trash AI is better, and you

524
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:16.360
know what, I would agree with you. Hey, yeah, I

525
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:19.679
mean right, you can probably find my mistakes within seconds.

526
00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:24.480
AI can generate a comparative analysis of Calvinists and wesley

527
00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:32.760
An interpretation of predestination and literally seconds that's insane. It

528
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.239
can also provide a comprehensive and exegetical breakdown. It can

529
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:39.840
give you a verse by verse analysis. AI can generate

530
00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:44.960
a detailed breakdown of a passage, including structure, genre, theme,

531
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:49.360
and the flow of the argument and seconds. It can

532
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also identify the patterns such as different structures and the

533
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way it's put together. It's language, it's a literary style.

534
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It can give me all of that. It can show

535
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:06.079
me parallelism, it can show me, uh why can just

536
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:08.719
show me any anything when it comes to literary style

537
00:36:08.840 --> 00:36:11.320
and language. It can show me, Oh, it's using this,

538
00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:14.719
it's using this, it's utilizing this, it's using this. I

539
00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:19.519
may not even see it because even if I even

540
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if I've studied all and we've talked about some of

541
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.960
the things that talks about this, uh inclusio, is there

542
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:27.320
some of the things we've talked about. It lists all

543
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:32.239
of those things. I have to remember all of those

544
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:36.079
different literary styles and form. I may not be thinking

545
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:38.320
about it at the time. I'm looking at scripture, right,

546
00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:40.760
I got to be thinking, wait a minute, what literary

547
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:42.599
style is that? Okay? Is that? This is that? That

548
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:46.039
is that? This is that? That? Okay? It it never

549
00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:48.920
forgets it. So it can look at a text and

550
00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:51.960
go oh oh, oh look right here. Parallelism, Oh look look, look, look,

551
00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.519
look look right here, compare and contrast. Oh look look look,

552
00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:57.719
look look look right here. Oh there's there's Hebrew poetry.

553
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:00.639
Here's this, here's it. I may not even notice it

554
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:12.159
because it never forgets it. That isn't that crazy? AI

555
00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.519
can create a verse by verse exegesis of Romans eight

556
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:20.000
explaining all the theological arguments, it's rhetorical devices, and its

557
00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:27.280
key doctrinal points within about ten seconds. You know how

558
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:30.679
long it would take me to do that for Romans

559
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:39.400
eight months for every verse, breaking that all down, doing

560
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.880
all of that, maybe even more, maybe maybe a half

561
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:44.719
a year if I'm really going to do a good

562
00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.679
job on it. That's why typically when you do, you're

563
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:49.840
gonna just for that for that week, You're just gonna

564
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be focusing on the first two or three verses. It

565
00:37:52.920 --> 00:38:02.199
can do the whole chapter in no seconds. It can condense.

566
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It can give us condensed summaries. AI can distill long

567
00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:10.000
and complex pzillological treaties and to clear concise points for

568
00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:13.880
easier understanding. I can take some deep philological treatise that's

569
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:17.519
been written in the past, hand it to AI. It

570
00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:19.599
may take a minute, and then it will give me

571
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:23.519
a concise breakdown of everything it taught and I don't

572
00:38:23.559 --> 00:38:28.719
even have to read it all. Now that's awesome. If

573
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we're studying something and I'm like, oh, wait, Calvin had

574
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:34.440
something to say about that. Now I can sit there

575
00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:36.920
and try to go read everything Calvin had and I

576
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:39.840
could then try to find the key points and try

577
00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:43.079
to break them down just AI, and Ai'll be like

578
00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:44.960
boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, there you

579
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:46.880
go within seconds, and I can just cut and paste

580
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:56.480
it and fuk there I go. That's crazy. AI can

581
00:38:56.840 --> 00:39:01.199
can simplify doctrinal doctrines like hypostatic you or justification by

582
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:06.800
faith into more understandable terms. AI can summarize Augustine City

583
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:09.760
of God and the bullet points for a sermon outline.

584
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:14.480
I can say, hey, today, We're going to look at

585
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:18.360
Augustine's City of God, right one of the most influential

586
00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:20.960
books in church history. I can say, give me the

587
00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.679
history of it, boo, give me this boom, break it down,

588
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:27.360
and then I can have an entire sermon on Augustine's

589
00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:31.920
City of God right there, ready to go? Do you

590
00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:38.360
see how crazy that is? All right? AI can create

591
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:42.519
outlines for sermons based on specific themes, text or theological topics.

592
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:47.559
AI can provide relevant antidotes, historical events, and analogies to

593
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:50.079
illustrate key points in a sermon. If I need an illustration,

594
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I just say ask AI for an illustration, and it'll

595
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:58.000
give me the write its own illustration. Now, pastors have

596
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:02.440
been using books. Many pastors and their offices have illustration

597
00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:05.639
books where it gives you illustrations on different passages of scripture.

598
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:08.199
So pastors have already been doing that forever. This just

599
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:09.960
I don't need a book to go try to find

600
00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:12.119
the right AI will be like, well, this is what

601
00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:14.360
you're preaching. This is the illustration you need. I don't

602
00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:17.079
have to try to. Sometimes pastors will give an illustration

603
00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:19.480
like how does that fit the sermon? I don't think

604
00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:25.119
that really fits AI would be like, here, illustration is trash.

605
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:27.639
I mean, I won't say it that bluntly, but I

606
00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:29.480
had to review a sermon the other day because I

607
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:32.159
was confused about how the illustration fit with the sermon.

608
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In AI's conclusion was the illustration had nothing to do

609
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:37.440
with the sermon. It was irrelevant, waste of your time.

610
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And I'm like, well, thank you very much. I'm glad

611
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:49.400
that wasn't my sermon. Okay, right, well we'll try to

612
00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:50.719
get to that. Right now, I'm trying to go to

613
00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:53.960
all the things that can do. AI can generate are

614
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you ready for this? Three different sermon outlines on God's

615
00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:01.199
faithfulness based on two Timothy two thirteen, each tailored to

616
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:08.039
an audience for youth, adult, or a small group. I

617
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:10.360
can say, hey, I need three sermon outlines for three

618
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:19.199
different groups. Go within seconds. Book. That's that. Look what

619
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.960
do we even here for ladies and gentlemen? All right?

620
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:25.639
It can It can break down all the kings of

621
00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:28.760
Israel and Judah and chronological order with all the key events.

622
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It can detect patterns across the entire Bible. A I

623
00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:37.000
can identify where biblical text references echo other parts of scripture.

624
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Or how Revelation references Old Testament prophecies. So I can

625
00:41:40.039 --> 00:41:43.079
just say, hey, the Book of Revelation, show me every

626
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:47.360
place that's referencing in Old Testament prophecy. Go within ten seconds,

627
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I have it all, don't need to do anything else,

628
00:41:52.320 --> 00:41:54.039
and then that's a whole sermon right there. If I

629
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:59.719
wanted it, it can show me possible typological connections. It

630
00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:02.519
can say well, in church history this is viewed as

631
00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:04.679
a type. Here's the reasons why. And then if I

632
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:06.480
don't like it, I can push back and say, AI,

633
00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:09.320
well what would be the arguments against it being a type?

634
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:10.880
And it will give me all the arguments for me.

635
00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:14.159
I can do what The more you get to use it,

636
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:17.199
the more you know how best to work with it

637
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:21.559
and to get even more from it. It can compare

638
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:26.199
multiple commentaries. AI can quickly scan who knows how many commentaries,

639
00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:29.840
schullary papers, millions, and it can synthesize the key points

640
00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:33.440
of everything it analyzes, so I can sell it to

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00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:39.199
analyze oh, for example, the other day, because when I

642
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:40.760
was preparing for this, I was just trying to see

643
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:43.760
the different things that it could do. I'm like, h

644
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.639
chapter summary method, Okay, I know that chapter summary method.

645
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:49.159
So I say, give me a chapter summary method on

646
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:52.639
First Timothy chapter two. Give me an entire chapter summary

647
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:56.119
method of First Timothy chapter two using the actual Bible

648
00:42:56.159 --> 00:42:59.000
study method of the chapter summary method. And it gave

649
00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:03.800
it to me in five seconds. They used to take

650
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:06.400
me who knows how many hours to do it. It can.

651
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:14.119
It can give me an entire chapter summary method. It'll

652
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:18.719
just show you this group will say this. This group.

653
00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.400
They'll just tell you that, hey, there's disagreement, and then

654
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:26.960
you can know what to do. Yeah, it can. Uh

655
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:30.400
Ai can calculate the frequency of themes, words usage, or

656
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:32.840
character appearances across the Bible. How many times does this

657
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:34.800
word used? How many times is this this? It can

658
00:43:34.840 --> 00:43:38.960
give all that within seconds. It can give me a tailor.

659
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Uh Ai can create a personalized Bible study plan based

660
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:46.000
on your individual theological questions, spiritual goals, or schedule. I

661
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:47.599
can just tell to give me a Bible reading plan.

662
00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:49.880
It can build one for me based on what I want.

663
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:54.639
AI can adjust recommendations based on prior study habits or

664
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:58.559
areas of interest. AI can generate a three month study

665
00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:01.760
plan on the doctrine of the tree fall in a

666
00:44:01.760 --> 00:44:03.880
three month study plant the doctrine of the Trinity. It

667
00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:08.159
can just break it down. I can just come in

668
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and say I need a series on justification. I don't

669
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want it six weeks long. It will give me the

670
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entire six week study on justification within about a minute. That, like,

671
00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:29.159
can we wrap our minds around what's happening here? I've

672
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got literally, I've got pages of all the things it

673
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can do in relation to theology and doctrine. I don't

674
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I know. So basically AI outperforms pastors and Christians and speed, comprehensiveness, personalization.

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When it comes to Bible study, it can outperform Christians

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00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:57.400
and pastors and feel theology, exegesis, sermon prep. It can

677
00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:02.960
basically it can outperform us in every area. Uh imaginable.

678
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There's nothing we can there's nothing we can do. There's

679
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nothing we can do. So after considering all of this,

680
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I was like, Okay, so where does this leave us?

681
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Because we're trying to understand the times, and like, where

682
00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:17.239
does this leave us? So I did ask Ai a question.

683
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I said, Hey, considering how many sermons are filled with

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exegetical errors, taking scripture out of context, misapplying scripture, and

685
00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:36.199
only teaching THEO and only teach theology. And it can

686
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only teach theology that it agrees with, like you know

687
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as a pastor. So sermons are filled with all of

688
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their errors because they typically they are, but they can

689
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:50.000
only teach from a specific theological standpoint. Right, you can't

690
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violate your team or you'll get in trouble. Right, wouldn't

691
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AI be better in all of these areas? So this

692
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is what AI said. It says, you raise a strong point,

693
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especially considering how often sermons suffer from exegetical errors, philological bias,

694
00:46:07.880 --> 00:46:11.239
and poor interpretation. So AI acknowledges are you ready for that?

695
00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:15.280
How often? This is what AI says. Sermons often suffer

696
00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:20.800
from exegetical errors, philological bias, and poor interpretation. So even

697
00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:24.719
AI acknowledges, yeah, because anytime I give it to do So.

698
00:46:24.719 --> 00:46:28.280
So here's here's what IT says. Number One common problems

699
00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:32.199
and sermons today. This is AI examining sermons across the board.

700
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:37.760
What it thinks about sermons? You ready? Number One exegetical

701
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:43.000
errors misinterpreting the original meaning of text, ignoring context, historical background,

702
00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.480
or genre. The sermons commonly do this. Are you ready?

703
00:46:46.480 --> 00:46:50.280
What do the sermons commonly do misinterpret the original meaning,

704
00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:58.360
ignore the context, ignore the historical background, and ignore the genre. Well,

705
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:02.880
if sermons commonly do that. But I just want to

706
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.679
make sure everyone sees where the reason AI exists and

707
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:10.280
why this is becoming a problem is because what the

708
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:13.599
church fail to do in the past. People go to

709
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:16.719
churches where this stuff happened and they don't stink and care.

710
00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:19.800
And if they stink and care, those problems would have stopped.

711
00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:25.639
Pastors can get up there and say whatever trash they

712
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:28.119
want to say. As long as it sounds spiritual and

713
00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:30.679
it makes you feel Jesus, then you're all good to go.

714
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:35.320
Because people go to church for a feeling, not for truth. Well,

715
00:47:35.400 --> 00:47:37.679
guess what if you want your little feeling, go confine

716
00:47:37.719 --> 00:47:40.719
your little feeling. But then, to me, there's no point

717
00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:44.800
in having church. AI even knows the sermons are filled

718
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:48.880
with these errors. And that's not me. That's not about

719
00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:51.920
me saying I'm more spiritual. That's not about me saying

720
00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:55.360
my theology is better than your theology. We're talking about

721
00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:00.559
factual errors, exegetical errors. This is it's not about a

722
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:04.320
difference in opinion. You can't go to Isaiah forty three

723
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:06.960
and say God's going to do a new thing in

724
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:09.760
twenty twenty five Isaiah forty three, and not about God

725
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:12.199
doing a new thing in twenty twenty five. It was

726
00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:14.800
about God doing a new thing when he delivered those

727
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:18.679
people from Babylonian captivity. That's not a matter of an opinion.

728
00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:23.679
That's a fact. But people will say, Oh, there's a

729
00:48:23.719 --> 00:48:27.079
beautiful sermon, pastor, I feel so encouraged for the new year.

730
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:31.960
Just stop talking. That's why I would rather hang out

731
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:36.880
with AI. Hey, I won't say something that ridiculous. Hey,

732
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:42.960
I knows how foolish that is. Other problems in sermons

733
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:46.360
using proof texting, pulling verses out of context to support

734
00:48:46.400 --> 00:48:50.079
a point. Oh I need a point I need to make. Oh,

735
00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:53.960
let's use this one. But what has that got to

736
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:59.719
do with what are you doing? They're not connected? Do

737
00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.480
you know? I'm not a cross reference? Right? So those

738
00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:05.480
are ectogenical errors that happen in sermons. How about philological

739
00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:10.360
bias interpreting scripture exclusively through one theological lens, the reform lens,

740
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:14.119
the pentecostal len, the dispensational the covenant, and ignoring other

741
00:49:14.199 --> 00:49:18.679
valid perspectives. Sermons do that all the time. We know

742
00:49:18.760 --> 00:49:22.719
what happens if I'm here teaching and I deviate from

743
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:28.000
what everyone expects. Boom, there's problems. You do not you

744
00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:30.760
color within the lines. We don't want to study, We

745
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:32.719
don't want to be challenged. We just want to be

746
00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:35.119
feel comfortable. Just give me a little bottle of milk

747
00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:38.199
and make me feel good, write me up in a

748
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:41.159
little blinky and send me home going Jesus. Okay, well great.

749
00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:44.480
AI doesn't care about that. AI doesn't care if it

750
00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:47.239
offends me. AI doesn't care if it disagrees with me.

751
00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:51.559
I don't want it to give me what I want.

752
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:57.960
I want to find truth, and the church is the

753
00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:00.920
worst place to go to find truth. I know that's

754
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:05.719
gonna get me in trouble. Avoid other things sermons do.

755
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:10.400
They avoid challenging texts that don't fit their framework. Hey,

756
00:50:10.440 --> 00:50:15.079
this doesn't fit. Let's just stay over here. If you

757
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:18.360
are not a Calvinist, you avoid those passages that seem

758
00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:21.079
to teach Calvinism, or you go over it really quick.

759
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.079
If you're a Calvinist, you're going to avoid. That's just

760
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:27.320
a game. The churches and everyone in the pew is

761
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:31.519
happy with it, because if we get to those challenging texts.

762
00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:37.400
What happens questions upon questions, and then people get defensive,

763
00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:40.079
and then fights start and people get mad because people

764
00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:46.639
can't handle a little bit of uncomfortableness. That is all

765
00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:51.239
of this is the problem. Here we go, a lack

766
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:55.280
of doctrinal precision. Are you ready? Most churches, this is AI,

767
00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:04.400
will teach theology. They will not do theology. Yes, I

768
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:09.840
guess what? What have I been saying forever? The worst

769
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:13.320
mistake I ever made from a pastoral not from a

770
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:16.360
sin perspective, but from a pastoral standpoint. The minute I

771
00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:18.400
stood behind this pulpit and told everyone we were no

772
00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:20.639
longer going to be a church where I teach theology.

773
00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.320
We're going to be a church where we do theology.

774
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:27.920
That was the beginning of the end. I thought people

775
00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:34.519
would embrace it. I was an idiot. AI is like, no,

776
00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:38.840
churches don't do theology, you stupid person. Okay, what are

777
00:51:38.880 --> 00:51:42.840
you doing? Okay, AI will do theology. You're supposed to

778
00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:45.360
just teach. You just show up and you hand everyone

779
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:46.840
a piece of paper going what would you like me

780
00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:48.880
to teach today? And then I just teach what you

781
00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:51.079
want to hear, and then you're happy and I'm happy,

782
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:54.239
and then everyone's going ever, But the whole thing is

783
00:51:54.320 --> 00:52:00.239
just a facade. Doing theology is what AI said, as

784
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:04.559
requires connecting biblical truth coherently across the whole of scripture.

785
00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:10.119
Oh boy, who would want to do that? Many sermons

786
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:15.440
focus on feel good application rather than philological depth, leaving

787
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:25.000
groups leaving gaps in doctrinal teaching. So then AI said,

788
00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:29.239
what can I do better? Ai says, I can offer

789
00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:35.920
you consistency and precision. I can consistently apply historical, linguistic

790
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:39.159
and philological rules to avoid errors like misreading the context

791
00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:45.119
or ignoring cultural factors. I can generate interpretive interpretations from

792
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:50.280
different theological perspectives Calvinism, are Manianism, Catholic without emotional or

793
00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:58.519
denominational bias. I can trace psyllological themes across all of scripture,

794
00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:06.840
ensuring doctrinal consistency. And so then AI offered me an example.

795
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:11.280
If a preacher teaches that Christians are guaranteed healing based

796
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:15.280
on Isaiah fifty three five, AI can quickly show that

797
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:19.039
this verse is often misapplied by highlighting the broader context

798
00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:23.320
prophetic suffering, and cross referencing related texts like one Peter

799
00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:26.280
two through twenty four. So even AI knows that when

800
00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:30.159
by his stripes we are healed is a misapplication. Even

801
00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:37.000
AI knows that tell a charismatic that AI knows charismatics don't.

802
00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:41.599
So what's the point of having a charismatic church. What's

803
00:53:41.599 --> 00:53:43.199
the point of having any of us? I don't know?

804
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:48.440
All right? Community? Right? So why does sermons fall short?

805
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:51.159
So AI basically that says, well, how come sermons fall

806
00:53:51.159 --> 00:53:54.599
short compared to what AI can do? Are you ready?

807
00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:59.880
Here's what AI says. Number one, because humans have limitations.

808
00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:05.119
I'm like, well, just run it in. It says pastors

809
00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:08.079
can't read and process vast amounts of information as quickly

810
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:14.159
as I can. Let's go, I can read faster than you. Okay, right,

811
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:18.519
I can't, but I wish I could, but I can't. Oh,

812
00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:24.119
here we go educational gaps. Not all pastors have formal

813
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:27.719
theological training, so some may lack the exegetical tools needed

814
00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:32.000
for deeper interpretation. Well guess what. One, there was no

815
00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:34.119
point in getting the education because it waste of time

816
00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:38.480
because nobody in the Pew care. Number two, Now I'm

817
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:40.960
an idiot for getting all that education, because AI can

818
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:45.960
do what I I mean why did I go to school? Ay?

819
00:54:46.039 --> 00:54:48.400
I can? The only thing I will say, my schooling

820
00:54:48.440 --> 00:54:51.039
does allow me to do this. If I see something

821
00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:54.039
in AI, I can do this. I can go, wait

822
00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:56.760
a minute, what about this one? Because I've got other knowledge,

823
00:54:56.760 --> 00:54:58.280
I can be like, well, what about this or this

824
00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:01.760
or this? I can and gain because I know the subject.

825
00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:05.000
So that does help you. I will acknowledge that the

826
00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:08.559
more you know a subject, right Like he Sarah knows

827
00:55:08.559 --> 00:55:11.039
a lot about grammar and that type of stuff. She

828
00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:13.840
could see it say something and immediately go well what

829
00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:15.920
about this or what about this? Or is it this?

830
00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:18.960
Or and she could engage it where I would just

831
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:20.800
have to say whatever it said. When it comes to

832
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:25.239
some of those subjects, I'd be like, well, if it

833
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:27.840
says this about the verb or the subject, if it's

834
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:31.960
diagramming the sentence this way, don't I can't argue against it. Philologically,

835
00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:34.480
I can go We'll wait more. Philosophically I can go like, well,

836
00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:36.440
wait a minute, what about this or what about this?

837
00:55:36.519 --> 00:55:38.760
Or what about this? And in many cases it will

838
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:41.440
come back and go, well that's a good point. So

839
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:54.119
that's good. I'm helping it build its knowledge about me. No, no, no,

840
00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:58.159
now now it gives that information to AI to be

841
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:01.440
able to be utilized. But it's more, it's gonna now

842
00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:07.639
know personal. AI knows that for me, it still brings

843
00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:10.360
it up right. It still will bring it up. But

844
00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:14.360
AI does know that I reject God speaking to us directly,

845
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:17.400
but it still will bring it up because all Christians

846
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:20.239
tend to think that he is, but it will at

847
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:26.360
times go However, I know that you reject this, but

848
00:56:26.559 --> 00:56:28.280
it will still bring it up because I don't want

849
00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:30.719
it to stop bringing it up right, because I wanted

850
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:35.239
to offer the other counter perspective. So sermons fall short

851
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:40.559
because of human limitation, educational gaps, confirmation bias. Pastors can

852
00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:44.239
fall into patterns of reinforcing their own beliefs or denominational

853
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:47.519
traditions without engaging other interpretations. This is what churches do

854
00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:51.599
all the time, confirmation bias. This is what you try

855
00:56:51.639 --> 00:56:53.480
to talk to someone with lordship. You can't get them

856
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:56.320
out of lordship because confirmation bias. They just read everything

857
00:56:56.320 --> 00:56:59.960
from a lordship perspective. They can't be challenged out of it.

858
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:04.440
So there's no point. AI doesn't have that problem. There's

859
00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:08.639
no confirmation bias. Cultural influence. Sermons can be shaped by

860
00:57:08.639 --> 00:57:13.840
cultural trends rather than sound theology, leading to moralism all

861
00:57:13.880 --> 00:57:17.559
the time, self help messages all the time rather than

862
00:57:17.559 --> 00:57:20.639
an actual exegenical message. So you can make a you

863
00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:25.840
can make a sermon sound exegetical when it's not really exegetical.

864
00:57:26.760 --> 00:57:28.760
And I can convince you that what we just did

865
00:57:28.840 --> 00:57:35.159
was exegenical when reality is it wasn't exogenical. It's all

866
00:57:35.239 --> 00:57:41.920
these other things. All right, So, uh so this is

867
00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:46.559
what AI said, all right. AI is better and exegesis,

868
00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:51.159
It is better in balance theological insights, and it is

869
00:57:51.320 --> 00:57:58.079
better in avoiding misapplication. However, there are AI falls short

870
00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:02.039
in some areas. All right, here's where AI says it

871
00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:09.440
falls short. You ready, no ethical or pastoral discernment. AI

872
00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:13.800
can't challenge a preacher's heart, motivation or personal bias. It

873
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:22.239
can only provide options. True, But how is a pastor's heart,

874
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:32.559
motivation or personal bias is challenged from truth? Right? If

875
00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:37.599
AI provides me truth that is challenging those things? Does

876
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:40.440
that make sense? If we believe truth is a thing

877
00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:44.480
that challenges it? Right? I can't how do I challenge

878
00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:49.559
your motivations and your biases by preaching truth? So as

879
00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:52.480
long as truth is being preached, however it's being delivered,

880
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:56.679
I think you can accomplish that personally. No moral authority.

881
00:58:57.079 --> 00:59:00.320
Assernment isn't just an intellectual exercise. It's a moral and

882
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:04.679
spiritual call to action. AI lacks the relational and moral

883
00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:07.360
authority to speak into someone's life. But I don't believe

884
00:59:07.360 --> 00:59:12.119
a pastor has any moral authority. I can tell you

885
00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:13.760
you need to do this, and what will you do?

886
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:18.400
Probably do whatever you want to do. I don't have

887
00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:20.880
any authority. I've been saying it for how many for

888
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:26.480
my whole ministry. My authority. Stop swear with what you want,

889
00:59:26.760 --> 00:59:29.320
what you want to do right the minute I say

890
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:31.760
this is what, you're just gonna walk right out. I mean,

891
00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:36.239
we look, how quickly I'll never forget I'd only been me.

892
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:38.679
It was that whole first like six months of being

893
00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:40.880
a pastor. I got in all kinds of trouble over

894
00:59:40.920 --> 00:59:43.320
Santa Claus because I told everyone he doesn't exist. That

895
00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:45.760
caused World War III? All right, I didn't know. I

896
00:59:45.800 --> 00:59:48.320
wasn't allowed to say in church that the fatman with

897
00:59:48.360 --> 00:59:51.880
the red suit didn't exist. I mean, I still I

898
00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:54.159
think I have that email that I got it. Was

899
00:59:54.199 --> 00:59:56.599
the most insane email I'd ever seend because I told

900
00:59:56.639 --> 01:00:00.320
everyone months before, Hey, when we get close to Chris,

901
01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:02.880
I may say the fat man in the red suit

902
01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:06.199
doesn't exist, right, everyone knows this. Then it says it,

903
01:00:06.239 --> 01:00:08.199
and then I get this email. Woman goes off on

904
01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:11.719
me that I destroyed her childhood, I destroyed or her

905
01:00:11.800 --> 01:00:14.159
children's innocence, and it was like this insane. I'm like,

906
01:00:14.280 --> 01:00:17.320
what just happened? But even before we got to Christmas,

907
01:00:17.480 --> 01:00:21.440
I made some derogatory comments about certain things related to Halloween,

908
01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:25.079
and she went home and immediately put up Halloween decorations

909
01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:27.599
simply to try to prove me wrong. It said, what's

910
01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:32.199
the point I had? So what did I discover? Within

911
01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:37.639
like the first six months of being a pastor? No authority? None, no,

912
01:00:37.639 --> 01:00:39.800
no authority. People were going to do exactly what they want.

913
01:00:39.840 --> 01:00:41.360
And when they didn't like what I did, what did

914
01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:44.960
they all do? Bobby? They all left. We lost half

915
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:52.599
the church in six months. So pastors don't have any authority.

916
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:55.679
I know AI is taught to say that pastors have authority,

917
01:00:55.880 --> 01:00:59.480
But we don't have any authority. Okay, we have none.

918
01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:04.079
It's in the illusion. It just mays make believe all right,

919
01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:07.840
AI can't tailor application to real life situations. Now that

920
01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:13.079
is true. It can't tailor situations to real life because

921
01:01:13.119 --> 01:01:14.679
it doesn't know what's going on in your life. I

922
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:16.840
may know that, hey, we got something going on in

923
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:19.360
the church, and I can tailor it to try to

924
01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:21.440
address it. The only problem is I may address it

925
01:01:21.480 --> 01:01:24.199
in a way that just does what ticks everyone off.

926
01:01:26.280 --> 01:01:29.960
So AI can't do that. Me doing that doesn't necessarily

927
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:35.920
mean anything good. So in terms, So in conclusion, AI said,

928
01:01:35.960 --> 01:01:40.239
can I preach a better sermon? Well, in terms of

929
01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:50.400
information accuracy, philological breadth, and depth, I can clearly outmatch

930
01:01:50.800 --> 01:02:05.079
any sermon. What do we do? What do we do

931
01:02:05.159 --> 01:02:09.039
with that? So I got more here, But we need

932
01:02:09.079 --> 01:02:10.880
to now try to do like the sons of this

933
01:02:11.480 --> 01:02:15.320
is a car and try to figure out where are

934
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:17.559
we headed. Well, here's where we I'm just going to

935
01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:19.920
give you some things where I see whether the people

936
01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:22.679
in the pew know it or not, whether the people

937
01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:25.559
in the pew know it or not, the sermons they're

938
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:27.880
going to hear are more and more are going to

939
01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:31.719
be generated and put together by artificial intelligence, whether you

940
01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:34.880
know it or not. The Bible memory app, which we've

941
01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:36.679
used before in the church. I told everyone to have

942
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:39.559
the Bible Memory app. We used it for Bible Memory. Well,

943
01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:42.119
now they've got on that app, you can I think

944
01:02:42.119 --> 01:02:45.159
it's like five dollars. You can add the artificial intelligence

945
01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:48.800
part two Bible Memory app. So now you can open

946
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:51.039
up that Bible Memory app, go to any scripture. You

947
01:02:51.079 --> 01:02:55.840
can go to first chronicles twelve wherever, and immediately what

948
01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:58.440
you click so they'll show you the passage of scripture.

949
01:02:58.440 --> 01:03:00.960
You click on, say verse one, verse two, wherever, and

950
01:03:00.960 --> 01:03:03.400
then this thing will pop up at the bottom and

951
01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:07.760
it has I can't I can't remember all the options.

952
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:09.679
I can't pull it up. But basically, it's going to

953
01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:12.000
give you the most in depth study of that passage

954
01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:13.920
you've ever seen in your life. It's going to give

955
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:18.000
you geography, it's going to give you historical context, word study,

956
01:03:18.239 --> 01:03:21.679
cross references, and a detailed analysis of the entire section

957
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:25.159
of scripture. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. I mean,

958
01:03:25.199 --> 01:03:28.119
it's all right there, it's right there. I mean, you

959
01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:31.000
just go to any scripture boom and you can copy

960
01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:35.599
it and paste it telling and then it'll give you

961
01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:37.920
a simpler one and then at the bottom, I'll say

962
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:41.119
deeper analysis. You click on deeper analysis, it will even

963
01:03:41.760 --> 01:03:45.440
expand it, make it even deeper. I'm telling you, that's

964
01:03:45.480 --> 01:03:49.760
where sermons are going to come from. That's where sermons

965
01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:52.840
are going to come from. The sermons people here are

966
01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:55.360
gonna be produced by AI other than the pastors who

967
01:03:55.360 --> 01:03:58.280
are going to fight it. But the pastors who fight

968
01:03:58.320 --> 01:04:02.280
it and resist it are gonna simply start being by

969
01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:04.199
the people in the pew. The younger generation. It is

970
01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:09.639
gonna be like, you don't know what you're talking about. Hey,

971
01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:13.559
I just told me you're basically an idiot. Now, older

972
01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:19.440
pastors are not going to appreciate that they're not. They're

973
01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:22.840
not because it can be brutal. I mean because I

974
01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:27.480
probably have analyzed one hundred sermons at this point. Just anytime,

975
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:30.119
I'll just go to newest sermons on the sermon's two point. Oh,

976
01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:33.199
I find the first newest sermon, download the transcript, upload

977
01:04:33.199 --> 01:04:37.320
it AI, and say, okay, analyze it. They'll give me

978
01:04:37.400 --> 01:04:40.079
the entire breakdown of the sermon, give me an entire outline.

979
01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:42.639
It'll give me its strengths, it's weaknesses, it will out

980
01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:46.400
give me all of its errors. Factual errors, logical errors,

981
01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:48.599
all the problems with it, and then it will give

982
01:04:48.599 --> 01:04:50.440
me its own basically like you know, well, this sermon

983
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:52.639
is not really any good, or this is a pretty

984
01:04:52.639 --> 01:04:54.960
good sermon or whatever they and I'm like, this is insane.

985
01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:01.239
So that's the one thing that's going to happen. AI

986
01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:03.480
is now going to be the thing producing the sermons. Now,

987
01:05:03.480 --> 01:05:05.280
how do you feel about that? Sitting in the pew.

988
01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:12.079
I don't think the average person in the pew care

989
01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:14.320
where the sermon comes from. You know why. I know

990
01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:22.599
that all those scandals about pastors buying their sermons, nobody cared.

991
01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:33.760
Pastors using those subscription services, nobody cared. Nobody cares all

992
01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:35.719
what people want as long as the pastor does what

993
01:05:37.239 --> 01:05:39.840
gives me some sense of spirituality so that I feel

994
01:05:39.880 --> 01:05:45.960
like I went to church and that we but then

995
01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:48.679
it makes me then feel so I don't know how

996
01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:50.519
I think the people in the pew, for the most part,

997
01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:54.039
don't care. That's my feelings. You can tell me I'm

998
01:05:54.039 --> 01:05:55.440
my wrong. I just don't think they care where the

999
01:05:55.480 --> 01:05:57.960
sermon comes from. Right, pastors have been taking them from

1000
01:05:58.039 --> 01:06:01.920
commentaries forever. People in the pew don't care because people

1001
01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:03.639
in the pew problem. And you know why pastors can

1002
01:06:03.639 --> 01:06:05.400
do that because nobody in the in the congregation is

1003
01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:08.920
going to read those commentaries, so nobody they know, nobody cares.

1004
01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:12.719
Everybody's in on the game. You just formulated in a

1005
01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:16.320
nice making me feel good, and then I'm okay, nobody

1006
01:06:16.360 --> 01:06:18.320
really cares. I mean, I hate to say it, but

1007
01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:21.440
nobody cares. So I don't think anybody's gonna care about that.

1008
01:06:21.800 --> 01:06:26.079
But from my perspective, you can see where I'm coming from.

1009
01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:33.880
What's the point If there's a device that's giving you

1010
01:06:33.960 --> 01:06:37.239
the sermon, and you literally can get the sermon on

1011
01:06:37.280 --> 01:06:41.559
your own device within seconds, then what's the point of

1012
01:06:41.679 --> 01:06:47.199
even showing up? If you're here for a sermon? You

1013
01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:50.239
can say, Hey, Sarah could be sitting in the pastors seat.

1014
01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:52.519
Stephen could be driving like, Hey, what what passage are

1015
01:06:52.559 --> 01:06:55.039
we on this week? Oh, we're in Isaiah forty verses

1016
01:06:55.119 --> 01:06:57.760
eight to twelve or whatever, and she could be like,

1017
01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:05.159
turn around, I'm good. Okay. Well Stamen could be like

1018
01:07:05.239 --> 01:07:07.719
all right, we're good. He could just he could just

1019
01:07:07.760 --> 01:07:09.840
like well, it'd be you know, he doesn't like to read,

1020
01:07:09.880 --> 01:07:11.760
so he could just have it read it for her.

1021
01:07:12.079 --> 01:07:14.159
And she could just listen, like, okay, they could. We'll

1022
01:07:14.159 --> 01:07:16.760
just see him pull up here, turn around. I'll be like, oh, well,

1023
01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:22.039
I guess I got the AI sermon, and guess what

1024
01:07:22.159 --> 01:07:26.079
it would be. It'll be better. Like I'm not even

1025
01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:28.679
gonna deny it. It will be better. I'm not afraid

1026
01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:33.639
to say that this is not gonna make any pronunciation mistakes.

1027
01:07:33.679 --> 01:07:36.559
It's not gonna make any subject verb agreement or any

1028
01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:38.480
of the things I do wrong verbally. It's not gonna

1029
01:07:38.519 --> 01:07:42.559
make any of those mistakes. It's gonna be perfect. It's

1030
01:07:42.599 --> 01:07:47.119
gonna be organized, it's gonna be detailed. It's gonna be perfect.

1031
01:07:48.000 --> 01:07:53.039
Why show up here, Maybe no jokes. You can ask

1032
01:07:53.079 --> 01:07:55.360
it to throw in some humor. I guarantee you probably

1033
01:07:55.360 --> 01:07:58.599
can probably even better jokes. Maybe the timing will be

1034
01:07:58.639 --> 01:08:01.920
a little off because it'll just be reading, you know.

1035
01:08:01.960 --> 01:08:07.599
You know, Okay, So what I mean, like, do you

1036
01:08:07.639 --> 01:08:09.880
see that kind of raises that point? What's the point

1037
01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:13.880
you said, Well, it's it's better to listen to a person. Well,

1038
01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:18.880
you can have AI read it to you. I mean,

1039
01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:22.199
the chat GPT has a great voice function. I mean,

1040
01:08:22.239 --> 01:08:24.399
you can just have a conversation with it. You have

1041
01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:28.359
to ask a question. You just talked to it. Have

1042
01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:31.880
you been seeing the commercials for Google Gemini to all

1043
01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:34.520
the commercials just having people just talking to it, just

1044
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:38.079
like just talk to it and regular and it just

1045
01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:41.439
talks to you just look in a normal way. Yeah,

1046
01:08:41.520 --> 01:08:43.680
I mean that's Google Gemini that. I mean all the

1047
01:08:43.800 --> 01:08:45.680
all the companies are working to make it better and

1048
01:08:45.680 --> 01:08:48.640
better and better and better, whether it's Copilot for Microsoft,

1049
01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:52.279
Google Gemini, Amazon will have their own ever chat GPT,

1050
01:08:52.479 --> 01:08:54.640
all of them. It's a it's a word an arms

1051
01:08:54.720 --> 01:08:57.560
race who can do it better and they're going to

1052
01:08:57.640 --> 01:09:03.159
get better and better and better and better and better. Yeah,

1053
01:09:03.239 --> 01:09:05.279
just speak to you just like a normal person, just

1054
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:09.239
like a normal conversation. Yeah, just like you're having a

1055
01:09:09.239 --> 01:09:12.560
conversation with anybody. So what about this or like the

1056
01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:14.960
one example is like the woman's talking to it about

1057
01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:17.199
her dream. So I had this dream and it was

1058
01:09:17.239 --> 01:09:19.720
like this, and then it's like, well in dreams, Jim,

1059
01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:22.159
and I response back, well, in dreams they could represent this,

1060
01:09:22.239 --> 01:09:25.920
and this could represent this, and this could represent just

1061
01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:30.840
just like a normal conversation, you'll forget people, right. So

1062
01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:34.760
I so, from from my perspective, what's the why am

1063
01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:39.279
I here? From your perspective, you probably don't care so

1064
01:09:39.359 --> 01:09:41.720
much how the sermon was put together as long as

1065
01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:44.960
you get the sermon, so then you can see where

1066
01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.279
it's gonna go. If the people who you who are

1067
01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:51.359
willing to spend time with AI, they're gonna be like, well,

1068
01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:55.600
why am I going to church? Right for the people preaching,

1069
01:09:56.000 --> 01:09:59.359
why am I here? Because they already have what I

1070
01:09:59.399 --> 01:10:01.479
can give them, and you're going to see how the

1071
01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:06.479
how it could become very combative if a pastor tries

1072
01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:08.600
to preach something and they're being fact checked in real

1073
01:10:08.680 --> 01:10:13.520
time because on the sermon reviews. Typically, I always tell

1074
01:10:13.560 --> 01:10:16.439
you I got AI right here, and so I'll be reviewing.

1075
01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:20.239
I'll be just like, that's not true. That's not true.

1076
01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:21.960
That's not true. That's not true, that's not true. That's

1077
01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:23.920
not true. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true.

1078
01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:27.359
That's not true, that's not true. All right, Next, I'm

1079
01:10:27.399 --> 01:10:30.880
just using AI to review the sermon in real time.

1080
01:10:32.640 --> 01:10:42.239
How's the pastor supposed to compete with that? But no,

1081
01:10:42.479 --> 01:10:44.079
But I think in some ways we have to teach

1082
01:10:44.079 --> 01:10:46.119
people how to utilize it. I think I think that's

1083
01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:48.239
gonna have to be the future. So I don't know

1084
01:10:48.239 --> 01:10:50.439
where we're going, but I just want you to see

1085
01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:53.000
what AI. So let's just make it clear. AI can

1086
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:58.199
do better than any pastor. That's just a fact. Right,

1087
01:10:58.640 --> 01:11:01.560
may not have you. It may be different in listening

1088
01:11:01.640 --> 01:11:04.079
to someone preach it versus reading it. I understand there

1089
01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:08.800
is a difference there. But if you're going to get

1090
01:11:08.840 --> 01:11:14.199
something better there on your phone and seconds and then

1091
01:11:14.239 --> 01:11:16.199
you can ask it, you can go back and forth

1092
01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:18.279
with it, and you can just build your own study.

1093
01:11:18.439 --> 01:11:20.880
You can even do more with it than you can here. Right,

1094
01:11:21.600 --> 01:11:24.840
is it worth then getting in a car driving all

1095
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:27.520
the way here? The money to keep a building operating?

1096
01:11:27.880 --> 01:11:31.760
If that you have, you see where that's headed. It's

1097
01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:33.520
going to be hard to convince people. Now. We can

1098
01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:36.439
try to say, well, for sake, not to the assembly,

1099
01:11:36.479 --> 01:11:38.279
and we can try to make all those arguments, and

1100
01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:42.279
I understand, but it's going to be really difficult. So

1101
01:11:42.319 --> 01:11:47.399
how can it be integrated? Now there's all kinds of ideas.

1102
01:11:47.560 --> 01:11:50.199
I'm like, you know, all right, everyone pull out your phones,

1103
01:11:50.479 --> 01:11:52.680
all right, let's look this up and almost kind of

1104
01:11:52.680 --> 01:12:00.800
work people through it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I always try

1105
01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:03.880
to tell you when, yeah, when I used AI for this, right,

1106
01:12:03.960 --> 01:12:06.920
I'm already bringing it into it, right, Yeah, I'm already

1107
01:12:06.920 --> 01:12:09.680
bringing that. I try to say, hey, AI this or

1108
01:12:09.680 --> 01:12:12.520
AI that, and sometimes it's it becomes all blurred together

1109
01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:15.439
because it's ongoing conversation. So it's not just AI. It's

1110
01:12:15.439 --> 01:12:18.279
my conversation with it. So it's a mix of things

1111
01:12:18.560 --> 01:12:21.840
thrown in or I'm cutting out, like a lot of this.

1112
01:12:21.960 --> 01:12:23.960
I cut out a lot of things AI said, and

1113
01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:27.119
I mix it together. Sometimes it's a mixture. So but

1114
01:12:27.199 --> 01:12:29.319
it's still AI is very much involved. I mean, why

1115
01:12:29.319 --> 01:12:30.600
wouldn't I be involved? Now?

1116
01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:32.039
I appreciate.

1117
01:12:34.720 --> 01:12:40.439
Telling people, right, yeah, but to be fair, that's been

1118
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:44.520
going on with commentaries. Yeah, it's been commentaries. I mean

1119
01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:49.439
you know you yeah, yeah, I mean I can just

1120
01:12:49.479 --> 01:12:52.640
go someone will be like, we're starting a series on

1121
01:12:52.720 --> 01:12:55.800
the Epistles of John and you start listening to it,

1122
01:12:55.840 --> 01:13:00.840
and I'll be like, that's James Montgomery Boyce, age thirty nine.

1123
01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:07.560
I know the commentary. If you know the church, mister

1124
01:13:07.600 --> 01:13:10.119
Goodlett will know this. If you know the church, you

1125
01:13:10.199 --> 01:13:14.760
know what commentaries are using. Right, if it's a reform

1126
01:13:15.079 --> 01:13:18.520
Baptist kind of church, a good, very good chests are

1127
01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:23.800
using a MacArthur commentary and others and others obviously right Presbyterian,

1128
01:13:23.920 --> 01:13:25.840
you know they're going to be using Calvin most likely

1129
01:13:26.000 --> 01:13:27.720
you can and once you get to know what the

1130
01:13:27.840 --> 01:13:30.640
commentary is, and if you go, if you visit the

1131
01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:32.520
pastor when you first join the church, if you're in

1132
01:13:32.600 --> 01:13:34.439
his office, just look at the office because most of

1133
01:13:34.479 --> 01:13:36.560
the cases they have their books there. You can be like, huh,

1134
01:13:37.199 --> 01:13:39.840
I know where these sermons are coming from because you'll

1135
01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:45.119
see the commentary said. Now, I'm not saying that's wrong.

1136
01:13:46.279 --> 01:13:48.479
I'm just saying that that it's always been that way

1137
01:13:48.520 --> 01:13:56.800
to some level. Pastors are utilizing whatever resources they have. Yeah,

1138
01:13:56.880 --> 01:14:00.800
oh yeah, absolutely not. So it's it's gonna create a

1139
01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:03.199
weird I don't know what this means, but I wanted

1140
01:14:03.239 --> 01:14:06.159
to take today as we are kind of facing a

1141
01:14:06.159 --> 01:14:09.359
new year, because we're in it now and I don't

1142
01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:12.159
know what it means, and it's gonna be this weird

1143
01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:15.279
back and forth for me. I got to figure out

1144
01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:18.319
what's even the point. Like I said, I've been struggling

1145
01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:20.039
with this all through twenty twenty four, sitting in front

1146
01:14:20.039 --> 01:14:23.079
of the microphone at home. I'm like, I can analyze

1147
01:14:23.119 --> 01:14:25.279
these sermons. Anybody else can analyze the sermon. They can

1148
01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:27.600
just have AI analyze any sermon they want. They don't

1149
01:14:27.600 --> 01:14:30.920
need me. I can talk about this, I can talk

1150
01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:33.760
about this. They can. You can take any news story.

1151
01:14:33.880 --> 01:14:36.319
You can take any news story, put the link in

1152
01:14:36.399 --> 01:14:39.520
AI and say, analyze this from a theological perspective. It'll

1153
01:14:39.520 --> 01:14:42.319
break down the entire news art article in theological perspective.

1154
01:14:42.359 --> 01:14:46.600
You don't need me, So then what am I doing? Well?

1155
01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:49.600
Then I'll be getting ready for a sermon on Isaiah

1156
01:14:49.640 --> 01:14:52.520
forty through fifty five. I can be using AI, working

1157
01:14:52.560 --> 01:14:55.000
back and forth, trying to figure things out. But I'm like,

1158
01:14:55.119 --> 01:14:58.960
why am I doing this? I could just call out

1159
01:14:58.960 --> 01:15:04.640
of you guys, Hey, chat GPT Isaiah forty, enjoy your week.

1160
01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:10.720
You don't need me. You could then show up and say, hey,

1161
01:15:10.920 --> 01:15:12.960
this is what I got. Sarah could get like this

1162
01:15:13.039 --> 01:15:15.279
is what I got from chat GPT on Isaiah forty,

1163
01:15:15.279 --> 01:15:17.319
and Bobby could say this is what I got, and

1164
01:15:17.359 --> 01:15:19.119
mister Goodlick could be like, this is what I got,

1165
01:15:19.159 --> 01:15:21.960
and I'm like, okay for this Sunday, let's discuss what

1166
01:15:22.039 --> 01:15:25.039
everyone got from chat GBT on Isaiah forty. You ready?

1167
01:15:25.319 --> 01:15:28.840
Now my job would be to be as knowledgeable of

1168
01:15:28.920 --> 01:15:31.399
Isaiah forty so that I can engage all of what

1169
01:15:31.520 --> 01:15:35.199
you found. We could do it that way. You see

1170
01:15:35.199 --> 01:15:39.520
how that's gonna the sermon is gone. Look, the sermon

1171
01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:42.199
no longer exists. It's gonna be the pastor is gonna

1172
01:15:42.239 --> 01:15:49.319
facilitate what people found, or people just not gonna use it.

1173
01:15:50.159 --> 01:15:55.680
That's also a very good possibility. People are not gonna

1174
01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:58.039
want to sit at home doing that, So they're gonna

1175
01:15:58.039 --> 01:15:59.760
show up and they don't care if I used it

1176
01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:02.760
because they're not going to go home and use it.

1177
01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:04.640
I mean, there is a little bit of truth to that.

1178
01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:08.279
Can we agree, right? I mean? Can I mean? Can

1179
01:16:08.319 --> 01:16:10.520
we agree? I mean, how many of you are gonna

1180
01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:13.680
spend uh, you know, forty five minutes with Ai working

1181
01:16:13.720 --> 01:16:17.039
on a biblical passage? Though Sarah will see, then Sarah

1182
01:16:17.119 --> 01:16:22.119
can just be the pastor and she's the pope. Yeah, yeah,

1183
01:16:22.199 --> 01:16:24.800
she can't step down be a lowly pastor. I mean,

1184
01:16:24.880 --> 01:16:28.439
come on, we're stripping her of her magistral authority. She'd

1185
01:16:28.439 --> 01:16:31.399
be a pastor. Everyone can disagree with a pastor on

1186
01:16:31.600 --> 01:16:34.880
the pope. Nobody can disagree with me. Okay, but yeah,

1187
01:16:34.920 --> 01:16:37.880
if Sarah does that, and you which which one are

1188
01:16:37.880 --> 01:16:41.000
you utilizing? Which chat GPT? But you know what I'm

1189
01:16:41.039 --> 01:16:48.199
talking about. Yeah, so some will and the ones who

1190
01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:50.279
do will probably like, well I don't really need to

1191
01:16:50.279 --> 01:16:52.640
come to church. Others who don't be like, well I

1192
01:16:52.720 --> 01:16:53.920
need you to do it because I don't feel like

1193
01:16:53.960 --> 01:16:56.680
spending time doing it. All right? Well then I then

1194
01:16:56.800 --> 01:17:01.840
then I guess I have some usefulness. But you see,

1195
01:17:01.840 --> 01:17:03.439
that's going to be very difficult. So I don't know

1196
01:17:03.439 --> 01:17:07.960
where it's gonna go. Oh yeah, educational world's feeling this.

1197
01:17:10.159 --> 01:17:14.079
Oh yeah, so I don't know how do you have

1198
01:17:14.119 --> 01:17:16.119
an opinion on how it should work in shirt since

1199
01:17:16.119 --> 01:17:23.960
you already use it? Okay, but you can already see

1200
01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:40.800
where the problem could be, right well, right, and then

1201
01:17:40.960 --> 01:17:43.239
if you if they already can get what you teach

1202
01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:46.760
them from their device in five seconds? Right? Yeah? Yeah,

1203
01:17:46.760 --> 01:17:52.159
it's okay, you're so you can feel it from that perspective, kay.

1204
01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:07.279
Right, right, it's the kidder.

1205
01:18:09.319 --> 01:18:12.359
Exactly, but from a but if you but have you

1206
01:18:12.399 --> 01:18:14.520
already felt I mean, and it's okay if you say it,

1207
01:18:14.640 --> 01:18:16.680
have you already felt like, well, I've already looked at

1208
01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:19.159
this in AI and so what the sermon is is

1209
01:18:19.199 --> 01:18:22.199
basically okay, not yet. Well, it will happen. It will

1210
01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:26.520
happen now. I may be, I may my ongoing discussions

1211
01:18:26.560 --> 01:18:28.960
with AI may shape it in a way where you

1212
01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:31.319
won't get to the same thing, but you're gonna get

1213
01:18:31.319 --> 01:18:34.520
to the same basic concept. If she looks up, where

1214
01:18:34.560 --> 01:18:36.640
are we in Isaiah forty, we'll end with this. I

1215
01:18:36.640 --> 01:18:39.760
know we're overtime, but Isaiah forty, if we look really quick,

1216
01:18:41.159 --> 01:18:43.640
we are in verse Yeah, we start in verse nine.

1217
01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:47.039
We've started verse nine. So next week, if you use

1218
01:18:47.199 --> 01:18:50.359
chat GPT, you can already start working on Isaiah forty

1219
01:18:50.399 --> 01:18:52.960
What nine? What's in our outline? Does it go nine

1220
01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:55.960
to eleven in our outline? Hang on, how do you

1221
01:18:56.000 --> 01:18:59.920
go to my observational outline? I haven't slipt in like

1222
01:19:00.119 --> 01:19:06.920
ten years, So going on forty down nine to eleven? Okay? Yeah,

1223
01:19:07.119 --> 01:19:11.960
So right now, Sarah could ask a chat GPT to

1224
01:19:12.720 --> 01:19:20.079
analyze Isaiah forty nine through analyze outline, summarize exegetical breakdown

1225
01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:22.399
of Isaiah forty nine through eleven. I guarantee you what

1226
01:19:22.520 --> 01:19:25.039
she can get she can put together right now be

1227
01:19:25.119 --> 01:19:28.960
better than what I can do. She's already done it.

1228
01:19:29.079 --> 01:19:31.199
Already done it. What does it start with.

1229
01:19:34.159 --> 01:19:44.800
Isaiah aspect of character relationship?

1230
01:19:50.079 --> 01:19:53.760
Yeah, she's already got She's already got it broken down.

1231
01:19:55.039 --> 01:20:02.760
See how quick that was. What's the point of me existing? Right? Like,

1232
01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:05.159
how do we work with that now? The way I

1233
01:20:05.239 --> 01:20:07.359
may work with AI will probably have it broken down

1234
01:20:07.399 --> 01:20:09.479
far greater detail than what she just got right there.

1235
01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:11.680
But I so I may work with it to get

1236
01:20:11.680 --> 01:20:17.079
more okay, just analyzed right, But and that brief thing

1237
01:20:17.119 --> 01:20:19.680
you're gonna get all the main points that show show

1238
01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:22.560
will show up next Sunday already knowing any main point

1239
01:20:22.640 --> 01:20:25.880
I'm gonna make because she did it. And you see

1240
01:20:25.880 --> 01:20:34.640
how quick that was. That's insane, like lightning fast. So like,

1241
01:20:35.199 --> 01:20:37.079
I don't know how do we work that now? My

1242
01:20:37.199 --> 01:20:39.800
job is to make sure ultimately, I see my job

1243
01:20:39.840 --> 01:20:41.720
now is making sure that I that I can help

1244
01:20:41.760 --> 01:20:44.319
anyone learn how to use it better and better and

1245
01:20:44.359 --> 01:20:47.000
better and better and better. But I think it's gonna

1246
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:49.239
come down to our do people want the pastor just

1247
01:20:49.279 --> 01:20:51.920
to use AI to show up to preach what AI

1248
01:20:51.960 --> 01:20:53.960
gives them because they don't care to look it up.

1249
01:20:54.520 --> 01:20:56.359
And I think that'll be a good portion of the

1250
01:20:56.439 --> 01:20:59.800
church will because a good port go throughout church history,

1251
01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:03.399
most Christians weren't going home buying commentaries, were they. No,

1252
01:21:03.800 --> 01:21:05.800
most people aren't sitting at home during the week reading

1253
01:21:05.800 --> 01:21:09.199
hermonutical textbooks. So they've already always left it to the

1254
01:21:09.239 --> 01:21:13.479
pastor until they want to disagree, of course, right, But

1255
01:21:13.479 --> 01:21:15.399
but this is even quicker. So I think what we'll do,

1256
01:21:15.439 --> 01:21:18.720
we'll we will get more people who will use it,

1257
01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:21.319
which is going to make church more irrelevant. We'll still

1258
01:21:21.359 --> 01:21:24.920
have a big group that won't use it, and we'll

1259
01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:27.000
expect the pastor to do so. But I think it's

1260
01:21:27.039 --> 01:21:30.760
going to become more because it's so easy. It's so easy.

1261
01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:33.399
I mean, you saw that. I mean that, what a

1262
01:21:33.399 --> 01:21:36.760
great example to end with. Hey, next week we'll be there,

1263
01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:45.760
Cherry has the breakdown. What's the don't I don't know

1264
01:21:45.800 --> 01:21:48.159
what I'm doing. I don't know what I'm doing. So

1265
01:21:48.600 --> 01:21:51.159
if you just know that, that's where we're headed, and

1266
01:21:51.399 --> 01:21:53.359
we'll see. I'll be talking about it probably throughout the

1267
01:21:53.520 --> 01:21:56.640
entire year, talking more and more about this. But just

1268
01:21:56.760 --> 01:21:58.920
know what AI can do is better than what I

1269
01:21:59.000 --> 01:22:01.640
can do, and any past who denies that as a liar,

1270
01:22:02.439 --> 01:22:05.560
AI is better in anything I cannot compete with what

1271
01:22:05.640 --> 01:22:09.079
AI can do. No way, no way, I can't. And

1272
01:22:09.119 --> 01:22:15.439
you already feel that as a teacher. Yeah so, and

1273
01:22:15.479 --> 01:22:17.079
it kind of feels weird when you're sitting in front

1274
01:22:17.079 --> 01:22:21.359
of a microphone, going what am I doing? Just look

1275
01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:24.039
it up? Okay, I'll see you later. I'll be downstairs

1276
01:22:24.079 --> 01:22:28.479
watching wrestling. Okay, forget it. There's no point, Hey, young

1277
01:22:28.520 --> 01:22:31.319
and I say, where's the pastor at? Just look it

1278
01:22:31.399 --> 01:22:34.880
up on chat GPT. Leave me alone. I'm at home. Okay, right,

1279
01:22:35.800 --> 01:22:38.199
y'all gonna call. Why aren't you at church? You got

1280
01:22:38.279 --> 01:22:44.800
chat GPT, You don't need me, okay, click? All right,

1281
01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:47.199
let's pray, Lorca. We come before you this afternoon. Lord.

1282
01:22:47.239 --> 01:22:50.399
We're facing a brave new world, and Lord, I don't

1283
01:22:50.399 --> 01:22:52.840
have any answers of where it's headed, but I am

1284
01:22:52.840 --> 01:22:54.840
thankful we are able to have a lot of these

1285
01:22:54.840 --> 01:22:59.359
discussions today as we face a brand new year. We

1286
01:22:59.439 --> 01:23:02.159
don't know what is in store for us and how

1287
01:23:02.199 --> 01:23:04.239
to process all of this or even where it's going.

1288
01:23:04.800 --> 01:23:06.520
But all we can do is trust in you and

1289
01:23:06.600 --> 01:23:08.439
know that the one thing that will not change is

1290
01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:10.640
you and your word. And we trust in you, and

1291
01:23:10.680 --> 01:23:12.159
we trust in that word and We asked this in

1292
01:23:12.199 --> 01:23:13.479
Jesus name, and God's people said