Pulpit AI to help Pastors

[Christ4Ever]

Interesting article on AI usage for Pastors/Churches.
Any thoughts?

'Pulpit AI' aims to help pastors use artificial intelligence to preach beyond Sunday services

Pulpit AI is a tool aimed at making pastors' lives easier, its co-creators told Fox News Digital. The app's artificial intelligence uses uploaded sermon content to create additional resources.

www.foxnews.com

With the Love of Christ Jesus.
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[Hekuran]

Just read the article.

Pastors spend up to 15 hours preparing a sermon.

The AI is able to grab the audio, transcribe it to text and create additional resources from it, such as mid week devotional or a bible study guide.

If it's used to make these tasks simpler, and as long as a pastor doesn't use it blindly, it seems like a useful application of AI. I guess the proof is in the quality of the materials it produces.

15 hours seems a very long time to be preparing a message. There must be a big cost in how much time pastors can spend with their people.

 

[Brad Huber]

Artificial Intelligence. Man playing God, and creating things that we arent sure will be good. Sounds more problematic imo, and he certainly cant preach on the possible evils of it if he is using it.

 

[MaryB08]

Well, AI would eliminate all the "pesky" seeking God as we're supposed to, and it's likely less obvious than living in the commentaries and relying on God's relationships with our predecessors for sermon material as so many already do.

But, alas, without having to seek God or sit at the feet of Jesus (the one necessary thing), it's just more empty words, whether Biblically accurate or not.

Remember what Jesus said (and this is true today as well):
16“My teaching is not My own,” Jesus replied. “It comes from Him who sent Me. 17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own. 18He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.… John 7

A great deal of our pastors have fallen away; AI will likely insure they keep getting paychecks by camouflaging them further. But as Jesus said, those who seek to do the will of God WILL KNOW.

To God alone be glory forever and ever and ever!!!

 

[Christ4Ever]

Thank-you for your answers. \o/

 

[twcstp]

Thoughts.


In Acts 2:41-47

"Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

43 And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.

44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved."

Matthew 18:20​

"20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."



We know that it is through faith that we gather together in His Name, and by faith in His Name He is in our midst.


I think that AI has no place at all in the Church.

 

[B-A-C]

I use AI quite a bit, and I have noticed it isn't really self-aware, or self-cognizant. It only knows what it can search out on the internet.
It only knows what it is programmed to know, and even then, there is usually a bias. My job involves a lot of computer operating systems.
But I have noticed that unless I specifically tell it what Operating system I am talking about, it will assume I am talking about Windows.
(Usually I am talking about UNIX or Linux ). Sometimes even when I remember to be specific it still makes mistakes and tells me how
to do something the "Windows" way.

I have also noticed it's a little "widhy-washy". If I ask the same question two or three days later, I usually get a slightly differnt answer.
Sometimes totally different answer.

I have noticed it is much the same way when asking about things like religions, creation, Jesus, spiritual gifts, etc...
It tends to lean towards the bias of the source it got the information from.

So I admit it concerns me, when we start going to a centralized source of authority for pastors. Which way will this lean?

 

[Curtis]

Garbage "in" equals garbage "out"

AI can only get its information from fallen men who are imperfect.

 

[Bob Carabbio]

Interesting article on AI usage for Pastors/Churches.
Any thoughts?

Who needs the Holy Spirit??? we've got "Artificial Intelligence"!!!!

BUT HEY!!!! there's MONEY TO BE MADE!!!!!!

 

[Hekuran]

Garbage "in" equals garbage "out"

AI can only get its information from fallen men who are imperfect.

In this case the AI uses only material from the preacher's sermon to create additional resources. It doesn't dredge the whole web to create a composite.

 

[twcstp]

It's the minister's duty to be aware of the needs of His flock, and if they know God they will know the needs of the flock; there is nothing at all that AI can do for a person that knows God, and using it would be damaging instead. I can't consider that there would be a single instance where AI wouldn't be damaging and and automatically detrimental.

Jeremiah 2:4-8​

4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
5 Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
6 Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
8 The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

2 Timothy 3:16-17​

16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.


1 hour of church and a sermon is not the same as in Acts with the Apostles; they spent time together daily breaking bread, blessing it, and giving thanks, and they continued daily in their fellowship.

Jeremiah 13:15-17​

15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken.
16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock is carried away captive.

 

[Hekuran]

I can't consider that there would be a single instance where AI wouldn't be damaging and and automatically detrimental.

What about transcribing the sermon from spoken word to text so that it can be easily turned into study notes - surely that's not automatically damaging?

 

[twcstp]

What about transcribing the sermon from spoken word to text so that it can be easily turned into study notes - surely that's not automatically damaging?

You know that's not the context that I was speaking from.

AI represents 'artificial intelligence,' and it shouldn't even be near a Church.

 

[Hekuran]

You know that's not the context that I was speaking from.

AI represents 'artificial intelligence,' and it shouldn't even be near a Church.

That's one of the uses mentioned in the article the op linked to.

 

[Curtis]

And then they have power to give life to the image of the beast (Rev 13:15),


Now, there is a lot of talk lately by some of the far-out physicists of creating a computer that can be biologically connected to certain types of organisms and will have life in itself. And this bio-kind of a computer has had several articles written on it. There is a research group in Canada that is working on such a thing. It is sort of a computer that will be able to think on its own kind of an idea; one that you can’t turn off. And they say that this is the next step in the evolutionary process. It will be higher than man and will be able to rule man and give us the answers to life and its problems and so forth, because they can create it with so much more intelligence than man. That’s the talk of the far-out physicists.


Interestingly enough, they are going to make an image of the antichrist and put it in the Holy of Holies of the rebuilt temple and then they are going to give life to it. Now, this is the ultimate blasphemy. This is the abomination, which will cause the desolation or the Great Tribulation. This is the final straw. At this point the wrath and the fury of God will be poured out upon the earth. And the earth will go through a time of great tribulation such as it has never seen before or will ever see again. When the antichrist comes to the rebuilt temple in Jerusalem and proclaims himself to be God and stands in the Holy of Holies, the Holy place, and announcing himself as God, that is the ultimate blasphemy. They set up this image in the temple and they give power to it.


that it should both speak and have life, and they caused that as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed (Rev 13:15).

Chuck Smith

 

[Twistie]

 

[Dave M]

when I realized a pastor job is not Bible teaching, it is warning the flock of sin !! things begun to make more sense then ever.

AI has no idea about sin, it can not relate.

A pastor is to be a Shepherd of his flock, listen to the Holy spirit about his flock and what they need to hear,, in order to keep them focused on Jesus. Many pastors can teach the Bible well, but I do not see them warning the flock about sin and the damnation in hell that awaits many for sin.

Any Pastor that is filled with the holly spirit who spends hrs a day in the word and on his knees listening to God, will not need or want or need any help with his sermons. He wont run out of material.