North Point Community Church

But before that, there was one trip that w- I was volunteering with an organization, and I was in South Africa.

It was a team of like 20 people, and they were from North Point.

And I was leading them in South Africa on this 11-day service trip.

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[laughs] And no one understood what A was.

And I said, I, "What? But, but why would I do that?" And he said, "Well, you need to come and get plugged into North Point.

North Point Community Church." Never heard of it.

Joel Osteen, L-Lakewood in Houston, Texas, forty-five thousand members, twenty million TV viewers in a hundred countries.

Andy Stanley, North Point Community Church in Atlanta, twenty-seven thousand members, forty thousand attend, six satellite broadcast locations.

Willow Creek in Chicago, now, they had their global leadership summit for a long time.

I'm not sure if they still do that, but a hundred and twenty-two thousand registered and broadcast, and it was broadcast in two hundred host sites and seventy countries at its height.

I hope it's been eye-opening for you, and today, we're gonna wrap up with Andy Stanley and Holly Goddard interviewing me.

We did this as a staff event at North Point Church.

Over 100 ICN churches from around the world joined us.

We wanted to bring this conversation with you.

This was filmed in person at North Point, and you're gonna hear some themes that maybe you picked up on at different times in the series, but hopefully it's a really helpful summary for you of what's really at stake and how the church can help.

My desire and my hope, not only by releasing the book AI and the Future Church, but by having this podcast series and numerous conversations, and still more to come, is that we can start a national dialogue, that church leaders can start talking to each other about this, that this is on your radar.

And what I hope is that in 2026 or 2027, you start teaching on this.

We talk about raising our kids in the age of AI, and a whole lot more.

Mm-hmm.

And you are also the head of the care department at North Point Community Church.

Mm-hmm.

So you've been counseling for decades-