Jul 12, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 11 segments
**Is AI a blessing or a crutch? And what happens when a generation starts ChatGPT-ing the sermons they were meant to receive on their knees?**In Episode 7 of The Shepherd's Bench, Kofi Dartey and…
Kofi DarteyHost
Randolph AdjeiHost
In this generation, do you feel like something is taken out of our sermons? In this generation, because again, people can just go online and just, you know, going to chat GPT and just give a topic.
Is there something that makes you ask yourself, did this guy pray for this? Did he study for this? Or this is just a product of church activity.
How do you even identify that what is being preached on the pulpit is a statement of somebody's time of devotion? How would somebody be able to figure that out? Because in our universities, they've created some systems that they are able to use to determine Whether the thesis, the dissertation, or all of these kind of things was written by an AI.
How do we authenticate sermons from our altars these days when we know that, like I said, people can churchyp it their way into revelation?
Number one, I feel, for me personally, we alluded to this scripture in Ezekiel, to eat the scroll.
I really strongly feel like when the word is in you, the word will also come out of you.
I think that process of receiving and delivering is one way that we have to be able to use as a metrics for God.
What are they saying, number one? What do they have within them? And is this something that is cooked up in a microwave somewhere? Or is this something that has been baked? I don't know about you, and I'm sure...
In this generation, do you feel like something is taken out of our sermons? In this generation, because again, people can just go online and just, you know, going to chat GPT and just give a topic.
Is there something that makes you ask yourself, did this guy pray for this? Did he study for this? Or this is just a product of church activity.
How do you even identify that what is being preached on the pulpit is a statement of somebody's time of devotion? How would somebody be able to figure that out? Because in our universities, they've created some systems that they are able to use to determine Whether the thesis, the dissertation, or all of these kind of things was written by an AI.
How do we authenticate sermons from our altars these days when we know that, like I said, people can churchyp it their way into revelation?
Number one, I feel, for me personally, we alluded to this scripture in Ezekiel, to eat the scroll.
I really strongly feel like when the word is in you, the word will also come out of you.
I think that process of receiving and delivering is one way that we have to be able to use as a metrics for God.
What are they saying, number one? What do they have within them? And is this something that is cooked up in a microwave somewhere? Or is this something that has been baked? I don't know about you, and I'm sure...
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