Jan. 15, 2025

The AI Prayer Book

The AI Prayer Book

A discussion about the book, Dwelling in His Presence: A 30-Day Journey into Christ-Centered Prayer Meditation

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A discussion about the book, Dwelling in His Presence: A 30-Day Journey into Christ-Centered Prayer Meditation

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central.

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Good morning everyone.

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It is Wednesday, January fifteenth, twenty twenty five. It is

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currently eleven forty nine am Central Time, and I am

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coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located

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right here in Abilene, Texas. Well, I told you that,

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really twenty twenty five is kind of about, well, a

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blank notebook, right, It's about a blank notebook, because typically

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before I arrive at a new year, I kind of

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start mapping out, Oh, I want to do this, and

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we're going to do this series, and we're going to

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cover this, and we're going to focus on this. And

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this year I decided, even though it's kind of just symbolic,

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to leave a blank notebook right here under the microphone, right,

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And so anytime I sit down, it's kind of like, well,

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I don't have a plan, I don't have anything mapped out.

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Let's just see what today brings us, right what. It's

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almost like I'm just gonna let each day guide the podcast.

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It's almost like we got in a car.

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We started on a road trip called twenty twenty five,

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but we have no idea where we're going. We have

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no map, we have no plan, we have no agenda,

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and we're just gonna let well, whatever we see, we're

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gonna kind of pull over and stop and look at it. Right,

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if we're driving down the highway, I'm like, oh, look,

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look that looks like an interesting exit.

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Let's take it.

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So that's kind of what we have. That's kind of

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been my approach. However, there has been at least one

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thing that has kind of already dominated the year, and

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I think it's going. I think it's going to do

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that throughout the year. Even though the notebook is blank, right,

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if I'm being honest, at least on the front page,

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the letters AI should be there. Because artificial intelligence really

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has been become the major theme for this podcast in

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twenty twenty five. Some people may love that, some people

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may hate that, But I believe it's important, right. I

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believe it's important because I believe artificial intelligence is going

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to have a massive impact on Christianity, a massive impact

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on theology, biblical interpretation.

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On so many things.

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I think it's in some ways, I'm going to continue

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to see this. It makes the church almost irrelevant in

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many ways, and we've talked about all of that. So

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even though it's a blank notebook, AI is kind of

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there and well this is where well the blank notebook

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what kind of leads us right back to AI. Let

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me explain what happened yesterday.

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I was asked to review a sermon.

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Does everyone want a reminder of what that sermon sounded like?

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Someone emailed me and said, hey, tell me if AI

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can handle this sermon, remember what we experienced. Do you

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want a little do you want a little reminder? Some

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of you who listened to it yesterday was like, no, no, no, no no,

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I don't want to hear it because a number of

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you did email saying man, I'm just gonna be honest,

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that was hard to listen to. I know, but we

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need that reminder, right so, blank notebook. Yesterday in my notebook,

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someone said, hey, can a I handle this sermon? So

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I downloaded the sermon and we heard a little bit

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of this.

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Sunday night rolled around and I talked about how what

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our faith is tried, it will be worth it. I'm afraid, honey,

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that we're in a time where we don't want to

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use the faith that God tells giving us as much

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as I love Brandon and he give me this aymen,

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I believe amen out of the bottom of his heart. Hey, man,

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the Brandon, I love you, brother, But when he give

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me this knife, he fully expected, I believe for me

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to he'man to set it up somewhere allan hand to

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luck headed and look at how Curnie it was. Hey, Amanda,

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your swalk ben blades head it. From time to time,

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I let you know what I've done toime. I pulled

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it out of my pocket a mini out of time.

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Heym an angle that I've done things with it that'll

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not an angle A knife he made to do.

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Are you with me?

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And honey, God did not give us that measure of faith.

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Got to hang upon myself somewhere and the won't buy

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when search time comes around.

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Hey, Now, there's no way to get around around it.

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From my own personal preference from I'm just gonna be

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honest with you, I can't listen to that.

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I can't.

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I mean, I know that that's wrong because I'm allowing

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my own personal preference to say, Hey, you may be preaching,

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you may even be preaching philologically sound biblical message, but

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the style I can't get past the style. I can't

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I can't handle and look at I understand that there's

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people who listen to me and say, I can't handle

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your voice. I don't like the sound of your voice.

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I don't like how animated you are. I don't like

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So that that's just the reality, and that's one of

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the things we just have to admit as human beings

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and as Christians that sometimes are listening to a sermon

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are liking it or disliking it. Many cases, is more

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about stylistic preferences than it.

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Is about the Bible or theology.

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Even if that sermon was one hundred percent doctrinally theologically sound,

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I would not be able to listen to it. I

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know that's wrong, but it's just the case because as

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human beings, we are greatly impacted by preaching style, and

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that sermon also captures that. That sermon it greatly reflects

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kind of a certain cultural context, right, It's definitely some

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that's far different than other cultural context. And we talked

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about all of that and how that impacts well human

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beings and preaching and teaching and listening to sermons, and

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we talked a little bit about AI and the difference there.

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So I did that we reviewed the sermon. Ai, I mean,

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Ai tore that sermon apart.

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It really did. And what was fascinating to me though,

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is that sermon was on James two, fourteen through twenty six,

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and I didn't really know where we were going.

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I had Ai do a lot of work working on

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the sermon, and then it kind of turned into if

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you really think about it, what Ai ended up doing

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yesterday is Ai refuted and disagreed and stated that basically

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a lordship salvation understanding is incompatible with a belief in

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being saved by imputed righteousness, and it's more in line

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with an infused righteousness concept. Basically, Ai was like, the

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whole lordship idea is just it's philologically inconsistent, logically inconsistent.

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There's problems with it. But then at the same time,

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Ai told me, basically.

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If you don't go along with this more lordship way

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of thinking, you're you're gonna basically not You're gonna you

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have no place within Christianity. You're kind of left on

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the outside for the most part because christ because non

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Catholic Christians tend to look at salvation and a very

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lordship kind of you have to do this to prove

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your salvation type mindset. So that was fascinating and I

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didn't really know we were going to end up there

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and maybe we'll return back to that, but that was all.

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You know, we started with a blank notebook and we ended.

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Up with all of that. So I was like, Okay,

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that day is over. Let's move on. Let's just move on.

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We'll see, we'll see what today has in store. Well,

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I received an email. Now I'm going to be reading

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just parts of the email. I'm not reading every single

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word of the email. I'm kind of summarizing some things

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of it, but reived.

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I received a.

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Number of emails from an individual and he first made

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a comment about that preaching style and he admitted he

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could not he was having a hard time listening to it. Again,

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this is personal preferences, right, and no means should I Look,

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if that's the way that person preaches, and that's who

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they are, and they're being true to themselves and that's

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the way they want to preach, then you know what,

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they should stay true to their.

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Them I don't think preaching.

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I don't like when preachers are kind of taught that

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you got to preach in this way or you got

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to preach in this way. I think you need to

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be true to yourself so that the preaching comes across

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as real and organic.

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And if that's him being real and organic, then by all.

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Means I support it, even though I can't listen to it.

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Go for it. I don't want to.

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I can't stand with people say well, you should do this,

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or you should say this, or you no, no, no no,

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don't tell me how to communicate, because what I want

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to do is communicate in a real way, not communicate

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as if I'm performing or as if I'm in theater,

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or I've got to follow some specific rules to present

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the material in a way that is more, you know.

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To the liking of more people. I don't like that.

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I want to come across as as being as real

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as I can be. So if that's their style and

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that's them, then by all, that's what they should do,

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and I shouldn't worry about those of us who don't

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necessarily like it. But so I get the email they

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say a little bit about that, and then they go

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and say this on a real note, I'm a long

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time listener and I love that you're utilizing AI.

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Oh, I'm just like Okay, good, all right, that's that's

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that's U.

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You know, I haven't received a lot of feedback about

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our discussion about artificial intelligence, so I was very encouraged

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to get someone saying, Hey, I love that you're utilizing AI.

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That's a great thing.

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I'm glad right because and I don't know the age

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of the person.

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I'm assuming.

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I'm guessing they're probably younger, right, or probably thirties.

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Maybe.

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I think the older people get, the more they're going

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to be. I don't really like the AI. Why are

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you focusing so much on AI? I think it's going

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to be very much based on age. Whether people like

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what I'm doing or dislike what I'm doing, but whether

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you like it or dislike it, I'm sorry. AI is

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here to stay. So we need to utilize it because

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I need people to understand what it can do, how

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to better utilize it, and understand how it's going to

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change and transform Christianity. Right now, listen to what they say,

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So they love that I'm utilizing AI.

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They go on to say, this is back to the email.

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AI isn't biased and it's factual. Like, wow, okay, now biased.

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I do agree that. Now some people may say it

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has a bias. We could get into a debate about that.

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What I have found when it comes to theology, though

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it's not biased towards one philological system, right. It will

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analyze the system based on biblical consistency, logical consistency.

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Like it. It doesn't have.

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A team per se, unless you're using an AI that's

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coming from a philological team that programs their AI to

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only approach things from that perspective.

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So I like an AI that's more open and not

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coming from a particular system. All right. They go on

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to say, I've been using it for a long.

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Time now, and I'm like, okay, so here's someone who's

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probably been utilizing it longer than I have.

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All Right, that's.

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Good because you want you want people listening who can say, wait, well, hey,

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you miss this about AI, or you miss this about AI, or.

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What about this?

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Because they've they've been using it a long time, they

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have far more knowledge. I feel like I've been using

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it for a while, but I think I'm just now

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really beginning to grasp.

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What it can do.

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Like I stated yesterday, when people perceive AI almost as

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a fancy Google search, I don't think they get it

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to me the beauty of Ai. As I tried to

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indicate yesterday, it's the reasoning I can reason with it.

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Like I got into that huge discussion with AI yesterday

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that basically led it to completely criticizing and demolishing kind

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of a lordship mentality.

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And that was fascinating to me.

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well this and this and this is just radically inconsistent

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acknowledge what I'm saying. And guess what.

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accuse me of being an Antiinomian. Isn't that fascinating? So

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that was just crazy yesterday.

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an hour. That's what I want people to see. But

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this is what caught my attention.

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saw something. Woo woah wo woa, whoa this person used

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AI to write a book. Oh, I've got questions. I've

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got to see this book.

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They gave me the name of the book, Dwelling in

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His Presence, a thirty day journey into Christ's centered prayer

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and Meditation. Now, I want you to write this title

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down and you can go to Amazon dot com right

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now and you can find this book and you can

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purchase a hard copy.

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the pdfile. I'm gonna definitely try to attach it. I

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the PDF file of the book, and they're allowing us

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they people go buy it, but they're willing for me

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to do this, So I'm very grateful. But if you

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This is the name of the.

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Book, Dwelling in His Presence, A thirty Day Journey and

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to Christ Centered Prayer Meditation. Right once again, Dwelling in

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His Presence, A thirty Day Journey and to Christ Centered

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Prayer Meditation. It is available on Amazon and hardback, and

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Talk about that blank notebook, all right, this is going

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I've got to see this book now.

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When they first told me about the book. They didn't

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tell me it was on Amazon. I didn't even think

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about looking at anywhere. I was just like, well, can

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you send me a copy of the book.

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I want to see this. This is a book written

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by AI. Come on, I've got to see this. So

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I immediately emailed and said, hey, come on, I tell

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me about the book. So this is what they sent back.

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They sent back, I do they do have a copy.

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And although I did set the prompts for a Christ's

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Center theology and referenced a couple that I truly love,

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it was almost entirely done by AI with little editing.

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The book was put together almost entirely by AI. I

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I know what you're thinking. You're like, oh, well, it's

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probably just like you know, two or three little pages.

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up the book right now in the pdf file. Okay,

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if I break if I break this down, hang on

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the way it shows up in a pdf file where

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you have page two hundred and seventy three pages. Ladies

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seventy three page book that's absolutely fascinating. And if I

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remember correctly, he put it all together. I think he

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said in a little about a week, AI put together

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a two hundred and seventy three page book, almost entirely

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done by AI in a week.

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believe this is going to change Christianity, you're out of

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things here, all right, So here's the title page, Dwelling

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in His Presence, A thirty day Journey into Christ Centered Meditation.

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Table of contents. Introduction Why prayer meditation matters.

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What to expect in this book. A personal story Finding

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Peace in the Stillness. Part one.

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Foundations of prayer meditation. When prayer feels difficult, overcoming distractions,

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What is prayer meditation a biblical foundation? How prayer meditation

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choose a scripture or focus, practice stillness, reflect and pray.

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Number three, A Theology of Communion with Christ. Carl Barth

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responding to God's revelation, John Wesley prayer as a means

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of grace, Thomas aquinas union with God and stillness, and

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t Wright prayer as king and participation. I theology lived

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out a simple practice for prayer meditation Number four preparing

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your heart and mind for prayer, and I could break

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this entire thing down. And then then Part two is

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a month of guided meditations.

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Week one embracing God's love and grace. Day one, God's

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Love surrounds you Romans eight thirty eight through thirty nine.

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through thirty. Day three, trusting God's guidance Proverbs three five

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Now, whether you agree, whether you disagree, the point is

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artificial intelligence put together an entire book that takes you

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through a thirty day you know, guide through you know

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prayerful meditation. That's insane, and it did it in about

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a week. Right, So what I'm gonna upload again, I'm

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gonna unless something doesn't work correctly, I'm going to upload

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the pdf file to be attached to this episode. For

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those listening on all the other podcasting apps, you need

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to get the sermon's two point oh app or go

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see the pdf file attached. Or you can go to

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His Presence, A thirty Day Journey into Christ's Centered Prayer Meditation.

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Please do that and then you can look at the

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thing I want you to see. This is not about oh.

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it's not about that. It's about someone utilized artificial intelligence

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Do you understand this?

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Pastors can be up there going I'm gonna preach on

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this and preach on that. People while sitting in the

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pew during a sermon can be putting together their own

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book about prayer or theology.

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Are you ready for this to write out your entire

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Sunday school curriculum for the next year.

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The people in the pew can do this.

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They don't even need the pastor that you can say

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the pastor are like, oh, for the next six weeks,

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we're gonna preach on this. They can say, Okay, well, great,

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you go do that. AI, I would like a six weeks,

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six weeks of sermons.

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AI will give you the six weeks of sermons and

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church even exist? At that point, you've got to go

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check out the book, all right, So I'm going to

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go back to the emails to some more of the email.

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the book, and so then I asked, hey, can can

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I upload this?

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I do this to help people and try to teach

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others to realign their focus on Christ and his teachings.

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If anyone would like a hard copy, they're sold on

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Amazon to This whole project took me only one week,

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AI so that I could feel confident in its accuracy.

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Did you hear that?

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Hey, I wanted it to be almost all we all

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done by AI so that I could be confident and

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its accuracy.

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Now, I'm not going to rely on me.

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I'm going to rely on AI because AI will probably

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be more accurate than I could be. That.

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I feel the same way.

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Now, if I'm going to put something together, I'm like, well,

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let me check with AI, because I trust AI more

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than I trust myself.

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And all of the years of schooling.

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Okay, I don't care how many degrees I have in theology.

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I don't care how many degrees I have in Biblical studies.

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I don't care. I don't care if it's an associate's

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a master's. I don't care what I have.

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I trust AAI can give me far more than I got,

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and all of those years of combined and all of

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the education that have now I do I will argue this.

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The more all of my education does allow me to go, wait, hey,

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what about this?

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Or what I can kind of construct my own philological hypotheses?

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Or I can kind of construct my own hermeneutical hypotheses,

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and then I can have a back and forth with

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AI because I do have the knowledge to be able

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to engage it on the subject. Right, the more you

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know about a subject, the more you can then go

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back and forth with AI.

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But I still like AI, and we've already seen.

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How good AI is is checking the accuracy of many

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of the sermons we've listened to, and every sermon that

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we've used AI to analyze, every single time it's pointed

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out completely inaccurate, factual errors literally factual error, fraudulent information

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in sermons, where like that's not accurate, that's not true, No,

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that's remember that what the one sermon I was reviewing,

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AI was like, No, this is just wrong, and you're

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like what in the world, Like how is this happening?

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So they go on to say, this whole project took

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me only a week, and I wanted it to be

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almost fully done by AI so I could feel confident

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in its accuracy.

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To me, to me, this is more about not about accuracy.

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I'm glad they used AI because it proves what I've

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been trying to say, what I think this individual should

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do is they should put together a book about how

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they utilized AI to write these books. So that and

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then try to try to offer step by step instruction

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and helping Christians create whatever systematic theologies, Bible surveys, Bible studies,

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devotional guys, Sunday school curriculum, sermon series. If this person

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put together an entire book, they would be they would

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be much more qualified.

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Then give us kind of a hey, how do you start?

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What are the things you asked AI to do? What

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were your prompts? How did you do this? How did

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you do that? And they do give me a lot

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of information here because I do ask some of these questions.

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So they go on to say, I.

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Also wrote another, a more philological book through AI. It

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was called So there's another book they have available. This

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is now this one I'm not going to make available

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and I didn't ask for a PDF file or anything.

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It's available on Amazon.

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It is called Faith Undermined, Conspiracy Politics.

477
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And the Crisis in the Christian Church.

478
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Faith Undermined, Conspiracy Politics and the Crisis in the Christian Church.

479
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Now what I would challenge them to do?

480
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Now, I haven't read their book yet, but I would

481
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challenge them if they if they perceive that there's a

482
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:37.559
crisis in the Christian Church based off conspiracy theories, mindless

483
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.359
conspiracy theories, and the political hijacking of the American Church.

484
00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:44.400
If that's the direction the book is going, which.

485
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I think it does, they're what they should do is

486
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they should write to see how a book about how

487
00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:58.319
artificial intelligence may be able to do something that's completely

488
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the correction of all these things that are undermining the

489
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Christian Church. Because AI, I think can combat the conspiracy theories.

490
00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:10.799
I think AI is not.

491
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Going to be politically hijacked unless someone creates an AI

492
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that only operates from a particular political point of view.

493
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Now, there are going to be people.

494
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Now Here's what I'm fearful is what's going to happen

495
00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:27.160
is we're going to ultimately have here's the Republican AI,

496
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here's the Democrat AI, here's the Baptist AI, here's the

497
00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.480
Presbyterian AI, here's the Lutheran AI.

498
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And I'm going to hate that. I don't want that.

499
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I don't want it to have give me one perspective.

500
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:42.759
I want it to deal with it in a far

501
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:46.440
different way. So we will see if that's if I'm

502
00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:49.039
right about what that. But that book again is available

503
00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:53.039
on Amazon as well. It's called Faith Undermined, Conspiracy, Politics

504
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:56.000
and the Crisis in the Christian Church. Again put together

505
00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:57.640
by artificial intelligence.

506
00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:01.519
Now, if I go to AI about that book, let.

507
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:04.240
Me see here if it gives me, if it gives

508
00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:08.480
me information, here, give me one second, I'm gonna I'm gonna.

509
00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:16.880
Close that pace. This give me here. This one's only

510
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:20.039
forty three pages. This one's only forty three pages. So,

511
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:26.920
and it would be interesting in it would be interesting

512
00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:32.559
to know like how difficult it is to put the

513
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book together, you.

514
00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:36.319
Know, like how long the book can be. When does

515
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:39.559
it become problematic for AI? Like I got all kinds

516
00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.079
of questions about it. So this one's much shorter, but

517
00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:46.920
again put together by artificial intelligence. And that is fascinating

518
00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:51.319
to me. So so back to the email, So I asked, hey,

519
00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:54.319
can explain to me how you did this, Explain to

520
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me how this works.

521
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:57.240
So now this is fascinating.

522
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:01.200
And their response to me about how they used AI

523
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to break it down.

524
00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:06.799
They utilized AI in order to respond to me. AI

525
00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:09.640
helped put together their response. So here is the response.

526
00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:12.160
It says, thank you for your inquiry.

527
00:29:12.279 --> 00:29:15.759
Regarding the process of creating this book, I'd be happy

528
00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:19.039
to provide an outline of how AI contributed to its development.

529
00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:24.160
Below was an overview of the tools and stepped steps involved.

530
00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:29.200
All right, So Number one AI application used. I utilized

531
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:35.160
open ais chat GPT, a language model designed to assist

532
00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:40.799
with content creation, brainstorming, and editing. It was instrumental and generating, refining,

533
00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:42.559
and organizing the text.

534
00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:45.079
Throughout the process. Please note it was.

535
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Used in generating, refining, and organizing the text. Number two

536
00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:58.480
step by step process a planning and outlining. I began

537
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:03.319
by brainstorming the book core themes spiritual growth, meditation, scripture

538
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:08.720
based reflections. Using AI, I created a chapter outline defining

539
00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:14.720
key topics such as trust, peace, faith, and transformation. Prompts

540
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:20.319
use generate chapter ideas for a Christian meditation book based

541
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:23.519
on scripture. So they went to AI and said, hey,

542
00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:28.000
generate the chapter ideas for a Christian meditation book based

543
00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:31.759
on scripture, and in AI generated all of that. They

544
00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:34.759
went on to also this was the prompt provide a

545
00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:40.440
detailed outline for each chapter, including key scripture references and

546
00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:47.480
reflection questions. Now the reflection questions I've been using those

547
00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:51.359
more recently. So like I, let's say I look on

548
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Sermon's two point zero app and I see a sermon

549
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on Genesis fifteen.

550
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Then I may go to chat GPT and I.

551
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May say, give me some discussion questions and things for

552
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:04.359
further study based on Genesis fifteen.

553
00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:06.480
I love that. I love that.

554
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:09.000
I want to use those more in my sermons and

555
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:12.960
even on the podcast. But those discussion questions themselves can

556
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:14.400
turn into an entire episode.

557
00:31:14.599 --> 00:31:17.680
But AI is good at doing that. It's really good

558
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at doing that, all right.

559
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:23.960
So those were some of the prompts used b writing

560
00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:28.599
individual chapters. Each chapter was developed one section at a

561
00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:33.680
time to ensure depth and coherence. For example, introduction prompt,

562
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:38.480
write an introduction to a chapter on Trusting God, incorporating

563
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Proverbs three five through six. That was the prompt, use, Hey, AI,

564
00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:47.799
write an introduction to a chapter on Trusting God, incorporating

565
00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:52.359
Proverbs three five through six. Next, Meditation guide prompt, create

566
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:57.039
a reflective meditation guide on living in God's God's Peace

567
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:02.799
using Philippians four to seven. Prayers and reflection prompt write

568
00:32:02.839 --> 00:32:06.880
a closing prayer and reflection and reflection questions for a

569
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.759
chapter on finding Purpose then this is what he did.

570
00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:13.359
So he AI is putting it all together. He's just

571
00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:16.480
prompting it. He's just saying, AI, put this together. AI

572
00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:19.519
put this together. AI is putting it all together. That

573
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:23.359
is absolutely amazing. Then he this is what he said

574
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:28.759
he did. I reviewed and refined each section after AI

575
00:32:28.960 --> 00:32:31.480
generated the content, tailoring it to fit the.

576
00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:33.200
Tone and focus of the book.

577
00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:35.680
I do that all the time when I'm working on

578
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:38.440
If I'm working on Isaiah forty, I kind of give

579
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:42.480
Ai what I'm looking for. AI will put it together. Now,

580
00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:45.839
the thing I do different is once AI put something together,

581
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:47.839
I will look at it, and then I will then

582
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:52.000
start reasoning with Ai, well what about this, and well could.

583
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.119
It not be interpreted this way?

584
00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:57.599
I start basically formulating my own interpretive hypotheses, and then

585
00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.519
me and Ai will spend about an hour going over

586
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:02.279
my hypotheses.

587
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:03.960
And AI will tell me where it's weak or it

588
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:05.799
doesn't work. I mean, we saw.

589
00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:09.200
If you're listening to our series on Isaiah forty three,

590
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:12.799
Isaiah chapter forty to Isaiah chapter fifty five, we're still

591
00:33:12.839 --> 00:33:15.680
in Isaiah forty you know that me and Ai went

592
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:19.319
back and forth about how some passages could be applied

593
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:20.319
to Cyrus or not.

594
00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:24.039
How Ai disagreed with me on some so then I

595
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.119
couldn't change AI's mind.

596
00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:28.960
But I was able to get Ai to give me

597
00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:33.279
an look at the first part of Isaiah forty, compare

598
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:36.759
and contrast it with the decree of Cyrus in Ezra one.

599
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:39.240
And then even Ai had to go, oh, there's some

600
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:41.000
there's a lot of similarities here.

601
00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.039
So but that's the thing.

602
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.160
I may ask it to put it together. But then

603
00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:49.559
I go back and forth arguing with Ai, not really arguing.

604
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:55.440
But reasoning together with it. Then so okay.

605
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:59.119
Then they went on to say editing and consistency. Ai

606
00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:04.240
assisted with grammar, flow and tone adjustments to maintain consistency

607
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:05.599
across chapters.

608
00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.639
Prompt. This is what he then asked Ai to do.

609
00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:14.119
Refine the following text to match a warm and contemplative

610
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:17.320
tone suitable for a devotional book.

611
00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:20.360
That's insane, Hey, I need this to be a little

612
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:21.119
bit more warmer.

613
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:25.280
I needed to have a contemplative focus. This is going

614
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.679
to be a devotional book, so it.

615
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:30.519
Will make and I've had Ai prompt me.

616
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:34.079
I'll be doing something and then Ai will be like, well,

617
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:36.079
would you like me to turn this into a devotional

618
00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:38.760
would you like me to turn this into a Bible study?

619
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:41.840
Would you like me to turn this into basically asking

620
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:44.440
me do I want it to go this direction or

621
00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:45.960
this direction or this direction?

622
00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:51.639
Which again is crazy. So there's the editing and consistency. Next,

623
00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:53.280
cover design and visuals.

624
00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:57.559
For the cover, I used open AI's image generational tool

625
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:02.760
to create conceptual desig right, So this was the prompt

626
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:06.679
he used design a six by nine book cover for

627
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:11.320
a Christian meditation book with a serene sunrise and spiritual theme.

628
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:14.920
All right, And the generational tool that he used, a

629
00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:18.079
open AIS image generational tool or generation.

630
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Tool, is called dall dot e dally all right.

631
00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:25.880
I think that's how you would say it, and I'm

632
00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:27.880
probably saying it incorrect, and tech people are going to

633
00:35:27.880 --> 00:35:29.800
be like, know what you're talking about?

634
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:32.159
I understand, I'm not AI. Okay, alright. I can do

635
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:33.000
is look at the letters.

636
00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:33.280
Okay.

637
00:35:33.719 --> 00:35:39.079
So then final review and compilation. I compiled all chapters

638
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:43.519
into a cohesive manuscript and performed a final review to

639
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:49.159
ensure alignment with a book spiritual focus and purpose. Now

640
00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:52.000
what I have done with AI is I've had like

641
00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.960
an hour long discussion with it and then I'm like, Okay,

642
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:59.920
take everything we've said, put it together, and a comper

643
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:03.440
hits of study or this in whatever format, and then

644
00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:05.800
AI will take an hour long study and compile it

645
00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:09.039
in a nice organized flow.

646
00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:11.639
Now, I know sometimes I know what some of you

647
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:12.119
are saying.

648
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.239
I wish you would do that in your podcast because

649
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:18.440
you just repeat and it's it's so tedious. Well, a

650
00:36:18.519 --> 00:36:21.119
lot of the reasons I don't do that sometimes is

651
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:23.559
because I'm trying to take you through the entire process.

652
00:36:24.639 --> 00:36:27.960
I asked AI this. Then then I asked AI this.

653
00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:30.320
I'm trying to take you through the process because I'm

654
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:33.719
trying to get you to understand it's not a Google search. Okay,

655
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:38.719
reason with it, all right, utilize it for these wonderful

656
00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:44.320
things that it can do. Right then, section by section approach,

657
00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:47.559
AI worked with me on one chapter or section at

658
00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:54.599
a time, allowing for basically to refine it right. This

659
00:36:54.760 --> 00:36:58.400
approach ensured each piece aligned with the overall theme while

660
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:05.719
addressing individual topics thoughtfully. Conclusion using AI was a collaborative

661
00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:11.559
and literative process that enhanced efficiency and creativity. While AI

662
00:37:11.760 --> 00:37:15.480
generated much of the foundational content, I guided the process,

663
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:18.719
reviewed every section and made edits to ensure the book

664
00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:23.480
maintain its intended tone, purpose, and depth. The result is

665
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:27.440
a work that blends thoughtful human oversight with the capabilities

666
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:29.079
of modern technology.

667
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:38.840
That's that's amazing. What AI can do, it is amazing.

668
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:42.360
So the whole goal of this is to just try

669
00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:44.199
I just want you to try to wrap your mind

670
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:46.320
around this is this is what I want you to

671
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:48.920
try to envision. Okay, well, I got a couple of things,

672
00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:50.840
so a couple of things I want to accomplish here. First,

673
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:52.960
it's just to tell you about this because it fits

674
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:54.360
with our discussion about AI.

675
00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:57.679
Two, I want you I want to make the book available.

676
00:37:57.239 --> 00:37:59.159
To you, and the best way to do so is

677
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:01.639
well for me to do a broadcast and just attach

678
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:02.800
the PDF file to it.

679
00:38:03.519 --> 00:38:06.320
So that's that's another reason.

680
00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:10.880
And three, I really want you to start thinking about

681
00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:14.039
how you with chat GPT.

682
00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:16.079
I'm just gonna go with chat GPT, says, that's the

683
00:38:16.119 --> 00:38:19.679
one I use most frequently. Just you and chat GPT.

684
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:21.639
What you can do.

685
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:28.960
In comparison and contrast to what your church can do.

686
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:33.760
All right, now, it's Wednesday.

687
00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:36.920
Do you have church tonight? Do you have church tonight?

688
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:38.920
Do you have Bible study tonight.

689
00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:42.199
If you do, contact whoever contacts your pastor, Hey, what

690
00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:45.519
are you preaching on tonight? Contact your teacher what are

691
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:47.800
you teaching on tonight? And then you just sit down

692
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:50.719
with chat GPT and say, Okay, the pastor's going to

693
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:54.400
preach on this subject. Chat GPT, give me an in

694
00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:58.039
depth analysis of the text, give me break it down

695
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:03.599
into a analyze the tech, break it down exegetically, give

696
00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:05.679
me cultural context, whatever.

697
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:08.679
You just start working with it, and then you compare

698
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:11.239
what you have in your hand on your phone.

699
00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:13.719
You can take your phone with you as the pastor preaches,

700
00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:16.760
you look at what you have. I will almost one

701
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:19.719
thousand percent guarantee. I think I would put money down

702
00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:22.239
if we were betting that what you have in your

703
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:26.199
hand will be better than what your pastor has, unless

704
00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:33.199
your pastor is using the same AI app. And then

705
00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:36.719
when the sermon is over, you can ask AI specific

706
00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:39.159
questions about the sermon, and you may find that things

707
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:42.199
said in the sermon we're completely factually in error, or

708
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:42.960
AI will.

709
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:45.400
Say well, this was a hermeneutical error, or this was wrong,

710
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:47.679
or this was wrong. And at some point you're.

711
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:49.639
Gonna be like, there's no point in having a church.

712
00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:57.800
That's what I'm trying to get people to understand. Now,

713
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:00.840
people don't like to hear that, and they're gonna push back, go, oh,

714
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:01.920
you can.

715
00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:02.679
Say whatever you want.

716
00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:04.840
I'm talking from a look, I'm not talking from a

717
00:40:04.880 --> 00:40:09.239
scriptural perspective. I'm not trying to argue whether whether I'm

718
00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:11.320
not saying the Bible doesn't say we need to be

719
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:13.360
at church. I'm not saying that. I'm saying just looking

720
00:40:13.400 --> 00:40:18.280
at it from a practical level, you can do that, yeah,

721
00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:20.360
And I challenge you to do it so that you

722
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:21.599
can see for yourself.

723
00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:26.280
If you listen to my discussion about.

724
00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:29.199
A week ago or two weeks ago, where we were

725
00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:32.400
working on Isaiah forty and I said, the next section

726
00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:34.800
we're going to cover, I think is verse nine through eleven.

727
00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:37.440
And what did someone in my congregation do? What did

728
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:44.480
they do? I'm literally saying that they already have chat GPT.

729
00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:47.679
Open on their phone, and they already had a breakdown

730
00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:51.039
and an analysis of Isaiah forty nine to eleven, and

731
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.280
they did it in five seconds.

732
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:55.800
They already had it on their phone.

733
00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:59.679
And so there whenever they show up Sunday and we

734
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:02.519
go back to Isaiah forty guess what they probably have

735
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:04.000
already now used Chad GPT.

736
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:06.079
There's nothing I'm going to be able to.

737
00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:08.880
Say on Sunday that they don't already have right there

738
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:11.400
on their phone. They don't even need to come to church.

739
00:41:11.639 --> 00:41:23.079
There's nothing I can give them. In fact, guess what

740
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:26.199
someone Right now you can sit down and you can

741
00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:27.719
start working with Chad GPT.

742
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.440
If anybody wants to take up the challenge, you just

743
00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:32.119
sit down. Start it's Wednesday.

744
00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:35.840
From Wednesday, from this Wednesday to next Wednesday, you start

745
00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:38.800
working with chat GPT to put together a book, a

746
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:44.960
commentary on Isaiah forty to Isaiah chapter fifty five, an

747
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:50.599
in depth verse by verse, an exegetical commentary dealing with

748
00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:54.719
cultural context textual context of Isaiah forty through fifty five.

749
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:55.639
I guarantee you.

750
00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:59.800
By next Wednesday you probably will already have an entire

751
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:05.480
commentary that you help put together on your phone, that

752
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:09.159
you help make with the use of AI. You don't

753
00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:17.239
need me. So I guess the conclusion of this is

754
00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:20.360
this book just is another piece of It's another you know,

755
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.320
quoting the famous lyric, it's another brick in the wall.

756
00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:26.119
Okay, it's it's it's just another knell in the coffin.

757
00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:30.320
It's like, Hey, we don't need podcasters, we don't need preachers,

758
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:32.480
we don't need Sunday school teachers, we don't.

759
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:35.719
Need the church. I've got chat GPT. It can give

760
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.079
me anything the church can give me. And it's and

761
00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:43.639
even and even the just the free. If you're using

762
00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:45.880
the free one, it can still do most of it.

763
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:47.800
But if you want to, you could just say.

764
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:53.840
For twenty dollars a month, AI, for twenty dollars a month,

765
00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:58.079
AI can do more for me within that month than

766
00:42:58.159 --> 00:42:59.440
the church will be able.

767
00:42:59.280 --> 00:43:02.639
To do for me in five years. And just ask

768
00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:05.119
yourself how much does it take to keep the church

769
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:08.519
operating for one year and how much does it cost

770
00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:09.320
to have chat.

771
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:16.159
GPT for one year. Chat GPT can give you advice.

772
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:20.800
Chat GPT can offer counsel. Chat GPT can offer scripture,

773
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:24.639
scripture references and help you. I mean, it can give

774
00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:27.920
you devotionals. It can give you daily devotionals, evening devotion

775
00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:31.960
morning evening. It can help you with Bible study methods.

776
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:34.079
It can do the Bible study methods for you in

777
00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:34.840
five seconds.

778
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:36.960
You can ask it to do a chapter summary method,

779
00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:42.119
a devotional method, a verse by verse analysis, a biographical,

780
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:44.920
topical thematic any of the Bible study methods I've taught you.

781
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:49.840
It can do the entire method for you in five seconds.

782
00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:58.440
But just compare just you go to church on Sunday,

783
00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:00.360
see what you get, and then just see what you

784
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.880
get with chat GPT. There's no way you're gonna be

785
00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:04.880
You're gonna be saying, well, chat GPT was far better

786
00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:05.519
than the sermon.

787
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:07.519
Do you understand what that means?

788
00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:12.559
The pastor could be like you could be sitting in

789
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:14.400
the pew and I could be like, all right, today,

790
00:44:14.760 --> 00:44:17.840
we're in Isaiah forty verses nine through eleven.

791
00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:21.159
By the time I finished, that's by the by the

792
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.960
time I finish, we're in Isaiah forty nine through eleven.

793
00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:27.800
I take just a pause to breathe, to swallow whatever

794
00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:29.880
that typically those little pauses and speaking.

795
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:32.559
By the time I'm done doing that, you've.

796
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:35.199
Already got an entire breakdown on your phone of Isaiah

797
00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:36.280
forty nine through eleven.

798
00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:41.880
Do you understand that? And you can just be sitting

799
00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:43.760
there looking at it, and then every time I speak,

800
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:45.159
you can just shake your head, going.

801
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:52.559
Man, chat GPT is better than you. Hey, chat GPT

802
00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:57.199
just says you're wrong. Hey, you're you're misinterpreting that. Chat

803
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:01.800
GPT says your hermeneutical abilities are trapped. Hey, chat GPT

804
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:05.280
just said you should quit and give up because you're pathetic. Okay, well,

805
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.920
maybe chat GPT wouldn't say those words, but basically that

806
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:09.000
would be the conclusion.

807
00:45:14.360 --> 00:45:15.800
I don't know how to I don't know how to

808
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:18.000
live in this new world. I don't know.

809
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:21.280
There was a time when I was going to school,

810
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:23.800
and I was going to seminary and Bible college and

811
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:26.800
Bible institutes, and I was getting this degree and doing

812
00:45:26.880 --> 00:45:28.760
this and doing this and doing this and working on

813
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.480
this and writing papers and reading this and doing all

814
00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:34.320
of this work that I always felt, Okay, I'm going

815
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:38.199
to be so well educated and so well informed that

816
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:43.280
when I stand behind the pulpit, right, I'm going to

817
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:45.880
know more than anyone and everyone, and I'm going to

818
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:48.320
ensure that I give them the best teaching that they

819
00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:50.280
can get. They will not be able to find teaching

820
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:53.400
this good no matter where they look. That was my

821
00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:55.719
way of thinking, maybe I was not well. I found

822
00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:57.960
out I was naive, because then I realized it doesn't

823
00:45:57.960 --> 00:45:59.880
matter how many years I went to school doesn't matter.

824
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:03.239
Someone would be you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong, Okay,

825
00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:05.920
so whatever, Okay, they always think they know better. And

826
00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:07.599
I don't even have to do that. Didn't even have

827
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:09.440
to go to school, they didn't have to do the work.

828
00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:12.039
So immediately you realize that when it comes to preaching it,

829
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:13.760
it doesn't matter how much.

830
00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:14.559
When it comes to the.

831
00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:16.840
Church, who cares how much you went to school? Who

832
00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:18.840
cares how much you learned. There's gonna be someone saying

833
00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:22.159
you're wrong, you're an idiot, you're a heretic, you're a knucklehead,

834
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:24.639
you don't know how to read. So you know, I'm leaving,

835
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:27.519
I'm gonna go somewhere else, Okay, just whatever. So then

836
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.119
you kind of just realize. Then I kind of reached

837
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:30.880
a point where.

838
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:32.960
I'm like, you know what, why did I go to school?

839
00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:36.760
Why did I spend all of those hours and that time?

840
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:39.599
Why did I do all of that? It was a

841
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:41.920
waste of time. No one cares.

842
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:46.360
So then I became very disillusioned. Well, now with AI,

843
00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:49.400
I realize what was the point.

844
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:52.519
What was the point?

845
00:46:54.639 --> 00:46:56.840
And now when I go when I sitting I'm sitting

846
00:46:56.920 --> 00:46:59.639
here studying, getting ready for church, why am I studying

847
00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:04.079
getting ready for church? The people sitting there in the

848
00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:07.039
pew can already have everything I'm gonna give them.

849
00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:10.360
And better, and they can put it together. They can

850
00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:10.840
pull up in.

851
00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:13.079
The parking lot like, hey, hey, we're getting ready to

852
00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:14.719
go in. Just give me a second, Give me a second.

853
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:18.639
All right, everyone, I sent it to your phones. Everybody

854
00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:20.599
got it? What I What I just sent to you

855
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:25.400
is going to be better than the sermon. I should

856
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.639
just text everyone, Hey, here's here's Isaiah. Here's a chat

857
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:34.039
GPT breakdown of Isaiah forty nine to eleven.

858
00:47:34.159 --> 00:47:37.480
Don't even bother showing up to church. Just read this. Everyone,

859
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:43.280
have a good day. It's I don't get it. I

860
00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:45.639
don't even know what the future looks like anymore.

861
00:47:46.199 --> 00:47:48.559
If someone can put together a book two hundred and

862
00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:59.920
seventy five page book and a week, a church would

863
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:03.159
pay who knows how much money to get a book

864
00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:05.880
like that so that they could pass them out to

865
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:07.079
all the people in the congregation.

866
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:11.119
Her churches do this all the time. Their curriculum, all the.

867
00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:16.960
Money they spend. Why well, we're gonna have small group.

868
00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:18.239
We need small group curriculum.

869
00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:28.039
Just have AI created all right, there, you go, oh,

870
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:29.760
let me give you the name of the book again.

871
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:32.719
Well for okay, So just so that you know, if

872
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:36.079
you're listening to me on the sermon audio on sermon

873
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:39.000
audio platform that would include the website, the sermon's two

874
00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:40.519
point oh app or the Church one app.

875
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:43.400
What you should see is attached to this as a

876
00:48:43.480 --> 00:48:44.199
PDF file.

877
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:46.760
It will be the book Dwelling in His Presence, A

878
00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:49.519
thirty Day Journey into Christ's Centered Prayer Meditation.

879
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:52.199
All right, that's what it's going to be.

880
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:53.840
I want you to look at the book and just

881
00:48:53.920 --> 00:48:57.599
remember it was almost entirely put together by artificial intelligence.

882
00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.400
Okay. I also want you to look up the book.

883
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:03.280
On Amazon Dwelling in His Presence, A thirty Day Journey

884
00:49:03.320 --> 00:49:06.760
into Christ Centered Prayer Meditation. Please consider getting a copy

885
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:10.800
there to support someone putting this together because it serves

886
00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:13.440
as a great example of how AI is going to

887
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:16.480
be disruptive to the church. Also know that the person

888
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:21.320
put together another book entitled Faith Undermined.

889
00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:24.239
Conspiracy, Politics and the Crisis.

890
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:29.280
In the Christian Church. I think, to me, what I

891
00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:31.440
believe the crisis in the Christian Church is now my

892
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:34.559
approach is different. I used to argue that conspiracy theories

893
00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:37.400
and political hijacking was the crisis the church is facing.

894
00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:40.840
I believe now the crisis that the church is facing

895
00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:44.159
and nobody realizes it yet, Like I don't think anybody

896
00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:47.800
understands it yet. The crisis the church is facing is

897
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:51.800
that you're just irrelevant. You're no longer needed. There's nothing

898
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:57.119
you can give me that I cannot get from AI.

899
00:49:57.719 --> 00:49:59.360
In five seconds.

900
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:06.360
You are an irrelevant institution. From a practical standpoint. Now,

901
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:11.480
if you're sacramental church, right, then okay, you still can

902
00:50:11.559 --> 00:50:14.880
fight for your your being relevant because people need the

903
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:17.000
sacraments and the only way to obtain the sacraments is

904
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:20.000
through the church. Now, if you're not sacramental and people

905
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.639
are going to church, you could say, well, you go

906
00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:25.320
to the church to sing. Okay, well, I'm pretty sure

907
00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:28.360
I can sing at home, right, Well, it's different because

908
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:29.679
you've got people standing next to you.

909
00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:30.599
I guess you can.

910
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:33.719
People are It's the church's relevancy is now going to

911
00:50:33.800 --> 00:50:36.599
be based on oh, well you come here for friends,

912
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:41.880
for quote unquote community, to hold hands, seeing kumbaya. That

913
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:44.840
it's not going to be for the teaching, because I

914
00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:47.760
can get the teaching better and quicker and faster, and

915
00:50:47.960 --> 00:50:51.000
in many cases, as we've already seen this year, just

916
00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:54.880
in the test that we've done, AI has been superior

917
00:50:55.199 --> 00:51:00.880
to every sermon that we have reviewed. In fact, AI

918
00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:09.039
tore those sermons apart. There's a new crisis. These other

919
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:12.519
crises in the church, I think they've almost become irrelevant.

920
00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:14.679
This is my own feelings, I think AI.

921
00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:20.679
And when I say crisis, I'm not saying oh AI

922
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:22.719
is bad and we just got to stay away from it.

923
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:25.760
There's no staying away from it. So now the church

924
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:27.880
is going to have to realize how do we function?

925
00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:29.199
What does the church look like?

926
00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:34.159
With AI now becoming what it is? How does the

927
00:51:34.280 --> 00:51:40.760
church and AI? What does that look like? All?

928
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:46.679
Right, there we go, So again the name of the book,

929
00:51:47.960 --> 00:51:50.920
Dwelling in His Presence, a thirty day journey into Christ's

930
00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:51.920
centered prayer meditation.

931
00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:52.679
Please look it up.

932
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:57.000
And I'm hoping that the pdfile attaches without any problems,

933
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:01.440
because if it doesn't, if it does have a problem

934
00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:03.519
and I can't get it attached, then then I'm going

935
00:52:03.599 --> 00:52:06.639
to sound really dumb spending fifty two minutes telling you

936
00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:08.679
it's going to be there and it's not. But I'm

937
00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:09.920
going to find a way to get it there, so

938
00:52:11.199 --> 00:52:13.480
I haven't converted to a PDF file. Should should it

939
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:16.719
should should be there soon. So first, the first thing

940
00:52:16.800 --> 00:52:20.079
that happens is this, this message will get sent to

941
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:25.639
all the other podcasting apps. It goes to Spreakers, Spotify, Apple, pocketcat,

942
00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:27.119
all the podcasting apps get it.

943
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.719
First. I won't be attached there because there's no way

944
00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:32.480
for me to attach it there. Sorry.

945
00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:38.480
But then as soon as that's done, then I upload

946
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.599
it to the Sermon Audio platform and the PDF file

947
00:52:42.639 --> 00:52:46.119
will be attached there. So for those listening on the

948
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:48.519
other platforms, go go to the Sermon Audio website, look

949
00:52:48.599 --> 00:52:51.760
up Theology Central, download the Sermon's two point zero app.

950
00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:56.039
Look for Theology Central, or download the Church one app,

951
00:52:56.079 --> 00:52:57.760
which is the one I always tell everyone to download

952
00:52:57.760 --> 00:53:00.159
because when you download the Church one app and then

953
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:02.599
to a search for Theology Central, it becomes the Theology

954
00:53:02.679 --> 00:53:03.280
Central app.

955
00:53:03.960 --> 00:53:05.639
So then it's easy for you to keep up with

956
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:08.320
all of our content. So it should be there all right.

957
00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:11.000
To the person who wrote the book and did all

958
00:53:11.079 --> 00:53:13.400
of this, thank you so very much for sharing this

959
00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:16.239
with me. Thank you for doing it, because I think

960
00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:19.880
this demonstrates a lot of what I've been trying to say,

961
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:23.440
and thank you for making it available. You're trying to

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sell it, and you made it available for people to access.

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So I hope people will utilize this and hope it

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generates more conversation and discussion about the future. And the future,

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ladies and gentlemen, is artificial intelligence, whether you like it

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or not.

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God bless