Sermon - The Christian and AI - Psalm 1
Oct 3, 2026 · 41 min · 7 segments
Sermon Title: The Christian and AI Passage: Psalm 1 Preacher: Robin Vonk Date: 4 October, 2026. 10:30am
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Oct 3, 2026 · 41 min · 7 segments
Sermon Title: The Christian and AI Passage: Psalm 1 Preacher: Robin Vonk Date: 4 October, 2026. 10:30am
Well, a few years ago, one of my friends who's also a preacher decided to post his talk for Christmas online.
He did that in advance, and he set it up on a forum for other ministers of the gospel to give him feedback, and he asked for feedback, and we gave him feedback on his talk.
I read it.
It was good.
It was faithful to the text.
And so we gave our feedback.
But as you probably already guessed already, he was giving it to us as a test because the sermon was completely written by AI.
But only one person picked up on it as we gave our feedback.
Now, that was a few years ago, back in the days when AI or artificial intelligence was still relatively unknown and only just getting started.
But here's the thing.
Did it matter? that the sermon that he wrote was actually written by AI after all.
Did it matter? After all, it conveyed the right information.
It had the nice illustrations.
It called for a response.
Maybe it lacked a little bit of soul or a little bit of spark, but it seemed like it could be effective.
Maybe the clunkiness of something written by a computer could be overcome in time.
We're all trying to work this out together.
Very rarely does new technology affect us with the speed and the depth with which AI has kind of overtaken things all around the world.
And chances are you're well aware of it for yourself.
Now, when AI first burst on the scene a few years ago, the main thing that we were worried about was kids cheating on assignments and exams.
Is that fair to say? We're worried about kids getting assignments home and they're just going to, you know, stick it into a computer and spits out an exam and it gets marked that way, you know, manufacturing marks for themselves, that kind of thing.
Well, a few years ago, one of my friends who's also a preacher decided to post his talk for Christmas online.
He did that in advance, and he set it up on a forum for other ministers of the gospel to give him feedback, and he asked for feedback, and we gave him feedback on his talk.
I read it.
It was good.
It was faithful to the text.
And so we gave our feedback.
But as you probably already guessed already, he was giving it to us as a test because the sermon was completely written by AI.
But only one person picked up on it as we gave our feedback.
Now, that was a few years ago, back in the days when AI or artificial intelligence was still relatively unknown and only just getting started.
But here's the thing.
Did it matter? that the sermon that he wrote was actually written by AI after all.
Did it matter? After all, it conveyed the right information.
It had the nice illustrations.
It called for a response.
Maybe it lacked a little bit of soul or a little bit of spark, but it seemed like it could be effective.
Maybe the clunkiness of something written by a computer could be overcome in time.
We're all trying to work this out together.
Very rarely does new technology affect us with the speed and the depth with which AI has kind of overtaken things all around the world.
And chances are you're well aware of it for yourself.
Now, when AI first burst on the scene a few years ago, the main thing that we were worried about was kids cheating on assignments and exams.
Is that fair to say? We're worried about kids getting assignments home and they're just going to, you know, stick it into a computer and spits out an exam and it gets marked that way, you know, manufacturing marks for themselves, that kind of thing.
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