So it's roughly one in five of the respondents used it, and then two-thirds of them at least monthly or more for mental health advice, for questions about how they feel and how they should respond to those

feelings.

So to the person who's listening to that and would go, well, what's the big deal? I can't afford a counselor.

I don't have very good friends.

And we have to get a little bit technical on this because when you're using these, most of what you're going to interact with are called large language models.

And basically, crudely, if you're an AI engineer, don't email us, but crudely how that works is, is it takes the breadth of human knowledge and it recognizes patterns.

And so, to someone who would say, well, yeah, it's harmless, like it's actually better than any therapist I've ever had, well, maybe.

Work is a gift given by God in our design.

Mm-hmm

... counseling, far more people would be sitting in that boat, "I want to," but in their mind, "I can't.

I don't know how I go from nothing to 10%." I think there's far fewer- Right ...

people- Yeah.

Oh, yeah ...

in our church with arms crossed.

Oh, yeah.

the spectrum of people and where you're at when it comes to the issue of finances, um, i- in your life and then specifically the, the tithe, but.

Mm-hmm.

And so it takes, I think it takes some skill to understand and cut through, uh, a lot of the imagery and stuff that's in there, and I, f- frankly, I haven't put in the work to try to figure that out and be able to look at it in, through that lens, through the lens-

Yes

... arrival that, that he's conquered and that he is winning.

He's, he's entering in like a real, the trumpets, the shouts.

Uh, I mean, it, it reckons us back to the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

Like, he's back to show that he is king.

That is endless and it's good.

Yeah.

And we don't know, like, it's unclear, at least from the scholars that I've looked at, what these genealogies are actually even about, you know? But I think you can kind of imagine.

I mean, I know I've been curious to go back into my family tree.

Just because I'm a Smith and a lot of my Smiths grew up in upstate New York.

And so I have this weird curiosity if I have some weird historical ties that are local to this area as well.

But I'm also really afraid to get my name in a database somewhere that like now I get fed everything from everywhere.

The road that we could easily go down real, real fast was to just be like, I'm going to be suspicious all the time.

So the question is, how do we handle this appropriately? And I think we're going to wade into that conversation.

I'm so glad you said that because I think one of the reasons that people hurting people inside of a church can hurt worse is because we have higher expectations of people who follow Jesus, as we should.

But the other ditch is what you said.

We assume that if it's a healthy place, I won't get hurt.

And it's so good that you said Scripture never promises that, nor does it ever—what it assumes— is that people will hurt people, and there will be offense, and your will will be crossed, and your desire will be crossed.

And yes, at times, injustice will happen.

It's an assumption.

Right.