THE AI PREACHER & ALGORITHMS OF FAITH

I draw ideas.  I got a GREAT idea from an old war-horse friend of mine tonight about “the rented body” that God gave us.  As my dad always said, better to wear out than rust out—that man and my mother worked their tails off and it killed them.  I see a ton (no pun intended) of fat lazy Christians.  Read Philippians and figure that concept out.  This is very real—no “fat shaming” but just being being real according to Scripture.  Identity politics and PC libtard nonsense don’t work with me.  My body is broken, but I’m going to walk up and down the street with my walker and do the workouts that I can to build and grow.  Fat lazy Christians disgust me as they are disrespecting God’s temple.  Not what God intended otherwise He wouldn’t have referenced it so much in the Scripture.

While in my Masters of Divinity I noticed a great number of my peers used Artificial Intelligence, what I refer to as FAT INTELLECT as they didn’t do the work, for their discussions and papers—no original thought.  Quite tedious and boring.  My hobby is that I would go back and forth with a black female. single mother (go figure) who was totally indoctrinated into progressive, liberal theology, hated white people, and everything she wrote or addressed was “systemic” this and that, the evil patriarchy of the faith, and all of the boring issues that we hear daily from social media and the news. Now, I’m old school and like to use Scripture, analysis, prayer, and cross analysis from reputable authors.  I happen to like to work.  Now, I publish all of my sermons and notes, and encourage young pastors to take whatever they want as it is difficult to plagiarize the Word of God, but at least put your own intellectual and experiential spin on it to make it personal.

         Let me explain how it works and how the church is being hoodwinked.  My wife, an accomplished businesswoman, leader, and detail-oriented professional, catches this all of the time as she is more technologically advanced than I.  She often times informs personnel within her own organization to proofread what they have allowed AI to write and catches inconsistencies all of the time.  Lazy and slothful.  Even when she uses what I call an “AI-assist,” she still goes back to verify and double check all resources against that.

         Allow me to expand on this notion.  We all have a personal algorithm associated with our personalities, beliefs, goals, desires, like and dislikes that we have allowed technology to hijack.  For instance, dating websites.  Never used one.  Never will.  But the algorithms placed in the program are NOT used to find a lifetime love or partner, but the algorithms are built in to keep the person coming back to that site.  The church, much the same as the algorithms of AI, are set to lull us into a comfortable state of “Oh, this is how it always has been and forever will be,” cornering us into our spiritual walk and growth into a niche market that never flourishes.

         With this boom in technology everything is recorded.  Church services, professional videography of the praise team, people raising their hands, dancing, etc., etc., and church has become performance art.  PLEASE show me anywhere in the Bible is says to take an offering…or an altar call…or sign a membership card…or make a financial pledge.  Become a “member” of a church?  I would sure like to see the Apostles’ membership cards.  Question yourself, how many things in your church are manmade or contrived for control that should belong to God?

         Essentially, the church as God intended has sold out to the algorithm of entertainment rather than learning and growing into a deeply intimate relationship with God.  I have read people who write, “Gotta go get my Jesus on,” or “love the band,” about church service.  I have seldom read someone on social media say, “I really learned something from God’s Word today” or “I was compelled to draw closer to God through prayer and the Scripture” according to the message.  This makes me sad, but simultaneously, it makes me more resolute to stay the course as Jesus taught and as the disciples augmented theologically in the Epistles.  Paul is clear about giving babies milk but mature Christians need to be fed meat.  Well, I’m a hunter and a meat eater—why my eyes are on the front of my head and not the sides like so many herbivore Christians.  What are your personal Christian algorithms, if its not study of the Scripture and prayer—you’re dead wrong.

         So, what algorithm have you been fed?  Over 500 years ago real men died so you could hold a Bible in your hands in your own language.  Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake for heresy simply for translating and printing the Bible at the hands of the so-called “Holy” Roman Emperor.  He just wanted the common person to read the Word God and the Gospels without some priest holding that to his chest.  No priest, no pastor, nothing can stand between you and the word of God—yet you don’t read it.

         The Reformation happened because the so-called “church” was corrupt and drifted away from the teaching of the Scripture for selfish gain and monetary indulgences.  Remember, money, power, and control clinging and teaching manmade traditions rather than Christ.  The so-called church builds institutions, large structures, and whatnot rather than making disciples of men as Jesus commanded.

         So, something has gone wrong again—the money, power, and control are still the idolatry, but there is a shift.  Today, the Bible is more accessible than it has ever been in the history of the world.  Its on you iPhone, on your computer, on the church website—and its free!  But we have an entire generation of so-called, almost Christians who cannot defend what they believe, cannot identify a false teacher, cannot tell you exactly what the Gospel is, nor can they lead someone to Christ. 

         Today’s church has developed an algorithm for personalities, performance art, societal influences over-riding church purpose, motivational TED talk pastors, and personal branding dressed up as “church” and using Christian words—remember, Satan knows Scripture better than you.  II Timothy 4:3-4 warns us, “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” 

         I don’t want to be cynical and burn everything down, rather, the answer goes back to the date 1526 with Tyndale’s Bible—go back to the Word.  Acts 17:11 talks about the Bereans in Macedonia who fact-checked Paul’s teaching with the Torah with daily investigation that led them to believe in the Gospel.  That is YOUR job, not just to get milk fed from a bottle on Sunday.  No emotion, find the facts.  Know it so well that when a priest or a pastor speaks to you from a lofty pulpit, you will know if it is fake or real, tell you about Heaven AND hell, tell you that abortion and alternative lifestyle are indeed SIN.  Again, what is your algorithm.  As for me and my house, we serve the Lord.