A few of us from our team at Gateway Austin had a chance to participate at The Art of Leadership Live with Carey Nieuwhof and 250 other pastors.
AI is like electricity
Eventually it will become so normal it will be ubiquitous.
Three Stages of AI (Seth Godin)
- Magic
- Human
- God
What happens when people talk to ChatGPT all day and we preach that God is omnipresent, but people don’t feel God?
The ethicists and philosophers are behind. The theologians are chronologically and academically far behind.
“The critics need to also be the contributors” – Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave
Five Major Disruptions We’re Facing (6-36 months):
1. White-collar job loss (“a blood bath” – Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei)
2. Rise of the super-elite (top 10% in the U.S. spend almost 50% of what is spent)
3. Deepfake
4. Brain rot
5. Artificial intimacy
So what do we do?
The church’s future direction is human connection.
Elevate relationships.
Sundays can’t keep being gatherings of randomly assembled people.
Connect people with one another. (Make sure it doesn’t all go through the communicator).
No staff can handle the depth of human need. But the church can.
We need to train the body of Christ to care for the body of Christ.
Model authenticity.
Your advantage isn’t polish – its presence: transparent, human, and honest.
No one is better positioned to provide what the world needs than the church.
As the world becomes artificial, the church should become more human.
The church’s future direction is human connection.
