WWUTT 2000 Q&A G3 Day 2, Christianizing Nations, AI Sermons, Watching The Chosen

2000th Episode, G3, and the Bomb Threat at the Convention Center

Did Jesus tell his disciples to Christianize the nations? Can a preacher use AI to help write their sermons? And what really is the problem with watching something like The Chosen? The answers to these questions and others when we Understand the Text.

This is the 2000th episode of When we Understand the Text, a daily Bible commentary to help encourage your time in the Word of Christ. Thank you for listening and telling all your friends about our ministry.

Here once again is Pastor Gabe. Thanks babe! You're welcome!

2000 episodes! Woohoo! Oh my goodness. And we're doing this at the end of the second day of G3. Yes. Where there was a bomb threat. There was. That was how the second day of G3 ended. So they were about to show the Essential Church movie.

Uh huh. Right. And right at the beginning I saw one of the guys that's been involved in the creation of this film. Of course this was put out by Grace Community Church. We've talked about it in past episodes.

Yes. But right before one of the producers was about to take the stage and talk about the movie, he's mic'd up, he's ready to go. Yeah. Bomb threat comes in. They have to evacuate. That's crazy. The convention center.

That's crazy. Thankfully everybody's. And there was a lot of people there. Oh, over 8 ,000 people. A lot of people. Now granted this was kind of like the. Towards the end. It was kind of an after party sort of a thing.

Yeah. Where they've had these movies they've shown both nights. So last night it was the cessationist movie. Great film by the way. Which had you in it. Not because I'm in it. My little plug for you. You're right.

I wanted to see it regardless of whether they kept my stuff or not. Sure. But it was a perk. Then the essential church movie put out by Grace Community Church was supposed to be tonight. Right. And they didn't show it.

As far as I know they didn't ever show it because they had to evacuate the building. So yeah. Oh to get everybody back in.

Right. Settled. Oh man. And get the mics and everything going. Get all that started again.

Yeah. I mean I'm sure they didn't take the time to shut everything down. Well yeah. No.

Of course not. Not in that kind of situation. Yeah. Right. But just to make sure everything's on the up and up. That'll take some time to get it back.

Yeah. Not sure if that. I don't guess they'll ever be able to make up the time on that. Disappointing. Definitely. Nonetheless, thankfully.

But it was only a threat. It was only a threat. It wasn't like a true thing. Yeah. So praise the Lord for that.

Somebody really had it out for G3 though on that second night. Very unfortunately. But glad everybody is safe. Yes. So this being our 2000th episode, we wanted to do this from the convention hall at G3.

Right. The exhibition hall. Yes. But we had our five kids with us. Yes. And the two-year-old by himself. Oh my goodness. Is a full-time job. Full. For two people. I swear. You can't do it by yourself.

It takes two people to handle that kid. Oh man. So we just were not able to get around to recording at our table, which we were hoping to be able to do. Right. Take questions from folks as they were coming by and things like that.

I did grab some questions from some people. So that's what I have here. On the Friday edition of the broadcast, we take questions from the listeners. These questions were received live. Otherwise you can submit your questions to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com.

Right. And then next time, God willing, next week, when we're at episode 2005, we will respond to some of those questions we receive by email. Yes. But before getting to that, let's continue as we've been reading in Psalm 71.

Okay. I'm picking up in verse 17, reading out of the Legacy Standard Bible. Oh God, you have taught me from my youth and I still declare your wondrous deeds. And even when I am old and gray, oh God, do not forsake me until I declare your strength to this generation, your might to all who are to come.

For your righteousness, oh God, reaches to the heavens. You who have done great things, oh God, who is like you. You who have shown me many troubles and evils will revive me again and will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

May you increase my greatness and turn to comfort me. The theme of the G3 Conference has been the sovereignty of God. Yes. And here the psalmist acknowledges God in his sovereignty. Yes. That he will not forsake, he will deliver me up.

Though he shows me many troubles and evils, God will revive again and will bring me up from the depths of the earth and increase my greatness and turn to comfort me. This is God who does this and as we read elsewhere in the Psalms, he is God in the heavens.

He does all that he pleases. So we read here that your righteousness, oh God, reaches to the heavens. You who have done great things. His rightness and his goodness are so amazing. It's beyond comprehension.

And yet it's right after that line. Right after the psalmist says that, that he then says, you have shown me many troubles and evils will revive me again. So your righteousness, everything you do is right.

And even though I go through troubling times, you who are sovereign have led me through these troubling times and you will revive me again. That's right. And I don't look at the troubles and the evils that befall me as God being unjust.

Oh yeah, definitely. Because I know he will deliver me up and he will, he will bring me to the place where he is as high as the heavens. Right.

I think sometimes we actually go through troubling times just so we remember that this is not our home. Yeah, right. And that the only perfect place that's gonna be without any problems is gonna be heaven.

We remember even in those troubling periods that all things work together for good. For those who love God and are called according to his purpose. Amen. So in verse 17, God, you have taught me from my youth and I still declare your wondrous deeds.

As you and I talked about recently, I think it was earlier in Psalm 71 where we were talking about this, but that you remember God in the days of your youth, Ecclesiastes 12 one, before the days of your age come, days of trouble will come and you have no delight in them.

So while you're here, while your mind is sharp, while you can store up the knowledge of God, while your body is still in, you know, good health.

You're not thinking about it constantly because it actually works like it's supposed to. That's right.

Or at least we can say this, your body's in better health than it will be later. Very true. Maybe to put it that way. So remember God and hold fast to him. Things are going to get harder, but remember that God comes and comforts us in our troubles and he will revive us again.

Even though death will one day overtake us. God revives us and will turn to comfort us and we will dwell with him forever with the most high in glory. Amen. What a wonderful Psalm. It's been a wonderful time at G3.

Oh, yes. Such a blessing. The music's been incredible, the preaching's been incredible, and of course the fellowship. Now we have great fellowship at our church. Yes, we do. Because we just have a good church family and we experience wonderful, heavenly, godly fellowship.

Yes. I say heavenly because it's, you know, a foretaste of that fellowship that we'll enjoy in glory. We enjoy that every single Sunday. But it's great to get together at a conference like G3 and be able to meet some of the folks that listen to the broadcast, that have watched the videos and been encouraged by those things.

And then meeting new faces. Yes. And from all over. Everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. From Alaska to Florida, opposite corners of the U .S. Yeah. To people in Canada. Israel. Israel. That's right. Different parts of the world.

Across oceans. Yes. Have come to this thing. Man, it's been great to meet everybody. I wish I could remember all your names. I could give shout outs to all of you. I know. Right? You know, speaking of which, so there were people that would come up to our booth and I would say, oh, hey, Charlie.

Hey, Pamela. You know, something like that. And they would be like astonished. You remember us? Yeah. You got that face a lot.

It's on your name tag. Yes. It's right there. It's right there. If the name tag was facing the right direction. That's right. Oh, my goodness. So many times I'm like, I know your face and I think I know your name, but I want to double check.

And I look down. I'm like, oh, never mind.

It's the schedule. I think the name tags were generally oriented to be turned around. Yes. So that the name was facing the person rather than, you know, you're looking at the schedule on the back of the.

Yes. But anyway you put it, it turns around. It would always pivot back around. That's right. Because I've even tried to like take off the lanyard and put it on the other direction. See if that would hold it.

And it still does the same thing. It's like the name tags weighted that way. I think it's the hook. Oh, OK. The little. The little hook. The little swoop. Yeah. Swoop hook thing that the tag goes on. Yeah.

I don't know. Yeah. Because that's the thing that flips. I know. But I think it's, I just think it's the tag. You think it's the tag? I think it kind of bows a certain way. Maybe. And that causes it to, you know, the aerodynamics of the tag when the wind catches it and it just spins it.

Yeah. Right. You know what I mean? Sure. Exactly. Yeah. There's a physics lesson in this. I am smiling and nodding. Uh huh. So toward about halfway through the second day, I quit just addressing people by their names.

I'll let them introduce themselves because I always got these puzzling looks. How did you know that? Did you hear me talk to that guy? No, it's on your name tag. It's right there. I thought I was being charming, you know.

Well, you were until you gave it up and everybody realized that you were just reading. Just looking at your name tag.

That was great. So if you're a new listener, I said this yesterday, but you weren't on with me yesterday. Yes. So if you're a new listener, you're probably joining us because a cute little blonde girl came up to you.

Oh my goodness.

They were everywhere. We have two cute little blonde girls, by the way.

Eight years old and six years old. Yes. And they were running around handing out our brochures all over the exhibition hall.

And so was a friend, a redheaded friend. That's right. She was doing a great job too. Yep. So.

Carly was with them. Yes. With Aria and Mariah. And if we had let them, they would have run out into the main hall. Oh yeah. For sure. Gone all the way down to the bookstore.

Every, every exhibition hall. Yep. They would have been in it.

Just handing out brochures to people. They've been a better promoter of when we understand the text in two days than I've been in eight years. That is a true story. You know, it was great. We were happy.

It was great meeting people that have said things like, I've used your broadcast to help me in Bible study preparation, in a Sunday school class, like I'm teaching a class and I went through your study in first John or something like that.

Yeah. Or I told my youth go through Gabe series in James or I listened to first and second Thessalonians or something like that. That has all been very, very touching. And it's so great to hear that what we basically sit here and do in front of a microphone in a room by ourselves can reach that many people and have that kind of an impact.

Yeah. That has been such a blessing to meet people and hear about that. And again, you know, going back to our own church, we have a good church family. I hear it from folks in our church family. Yeah.

Just saying how much the broadcast means to them when they're driving in the car, when they're heading to work, just when they're doing breakfast in the morning and they have something to play in the background.

It's great to hear the word of God being taught, you know, those kinds of things. So we have been so blessed by God to be able to do this. Amen. What a wonder of technology. All of the episodes this week have been recorded from my parents home.

Yep. We've been in Georgia. Yes. We've been in Atlanta all this week. So this is an even from my nice little studio that some people donated to that I could build at home. Yes. But but with some of that extra donation, I purchased this equipment.

Everything but the microphones and the mic cables is brand new stuff. So the rest of this is something that I added that we could travel on the road with a little bit better. And incidentally, with this device, so I got this this new little much smaller than the mixer that I use in my studio that we go through with all the preamps and everything.

But so this new device has a neat little feature to it that I'm going to play for you, babe. OK. So any time now that I pull one of those dad jokes, oh, dear, there's a little button on this device. Oh, no.

If anybody has ever invested in the device that I'm talking about, you already know which device this is. When I push this button, you will know. Are you ready? Sure. So for all my dad jokes, all I have to do is go nice.

That wasn't very loud. I think I get it loud. Oh, there we go. OK, there we go. Oh, my. And when I make just this awesome theological comment. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well done. The crowd. Well, where was that when we said 2000th episode? Oh, yeah, that's right. It's our tooth. Do it again, babe. It's our 2000th episode. Yeah.

All right. That's our our live audience at G3 right there listening to us. Well, my thanks to the guys that put together G3. I know it is a lot of work. Oh, yeah. Because it's it's Praise Mail Baptist Church.

I think they've got some other folks. I want to say they have some other folks even outside the church that kind of help them pull all of this together. Volunteers. I'm sure there's tons of volunteers.

But this all started with one little church in Douglasville, a little a little reformed Baptist church that wanted to put together a conference committed to solid teaching, which they were doing at their church.

Their church. Yeah. Until it got too big. All in-house. Yeah. That they couldn't do it there anymore. So people that will that will rip on a conference like G3 and say that it's just all about the money.

That is not the way that it started. No. It began as just something to feed their church. And it ended up edifying more and more people and spreading further and further out until it's become this thing that thousands of people are coming to 8 ,500 people this year.

Yeah. To hear 8 ,500 people in that hall singing hymns acapella. Oh, it was awesome. It was very amazing. So we're thankful to everybody who put this together, doing it in such a quality way. The speakers that give their time to preparing these messages.

Yeah. And it's a lot of work to prepare these kinds of messages. It's not just that these guys just stand up there and wing it. Right. And so they prepare these sermons and they feed the sheep. And then we've all got to go back to our respective communities, our churches that we're a part of.

But I hope that when we go back there, we're bringing some of the things that we received at a conference like this. Yeah. Exalting God and praising him for his sovereignty. And I hope that's going to come into my preaching on Sunday because I'm the one that's got to do the sermon this week.

Yes. Tom is flying back. I'm driving back. Yes. With five kids. With five kids. But I'm the one preaching. It'll take a little bit of time. It's good. That's right. It's good. So we're not going to make it on Saturday.

You get to preach though. Oh, I love it. That's so wonderful. That's not a complaint because I love preaching. And in fact, I love preaching right after a conference. Yes. You are all fired up after a conference.

Because I am ready to go. I hate getting done with a conference and then waiting a few weeks before I have to preach. Yeah. I'm ready to jump right back into it. The fire is there. Yes. Let's go. Yes.

So I'm looking forward to preaching this Sunday. And yeah, let's pray for safe journeys for us because we're not going to be back at the conference on Saturday. Right. Since I have to preach Sunday, we're going to leave Saturday morning and head out.

Yeah. We'll miss Steve Lawson. But his sermon on Thursday. Mike Riccardi. Mike Riccardi. That's right. That's Becky's favorite.

It was Mike Riccardi. I'm so sad. I was like, I'm going to make it in there for that one. No. No.

Nevermind. Sorry. I even tried. I was hoping that there was some breakout session he was doing. I can get you to as well.

I noticed that he was like doing an interview in the hallway, like in that main hallway.

Right before you go outside. Yeah. They had like a stage kind of thing. Like a halftime show desk. Yeah.

It was. It totally was. But I wasn't able to listen because I was following little girls. Oh, of course. To and fro. So it was. And it was super busy. So I didn't want to lose them. Yeah. Yeah. And I would have, you know, sat there and just listened.

And would have lost them in the process. They kept trying to go into every one of the exhibition halls. And I was like, no, not this one.

No, not this one. They're telling you, Mom, we hadn't handed out brochures in here yet. I know. Right. So, again, with the questions that we had grabbed from people, I was kind of like I'd have a conversation with somebody.

And when they'd walk away, I jotted down on my phone. I don't know that I got everybody's name on here. I had to remember their name as they're walking away and I'm jotting down the note. But here's some of the questions we were asked at our table and decided we wanted to pull some of these questions into our 2000th episode here.

So Bethany came up and she said, I saw someone online say that Jesus commissioned his disciples to Christianize the nations. Is that an accurate summary of the Great Commission? So someone online said that Jesus commissioned his disciples to Christianize.

Did I say that right? Commission his disciples to Christianize. Just want to make sure I didn't say Christianize his disciples to commission. Did Jesus commission his disciples to Christianize the nations?

Well, let's look at the Great Commission, and then I'll also go to Acts 1 and we'll look at Acts version of the Great Commission. They're in Acts 1. But this is Matthew 28 verses 18 to 20. And Jesus came up and spoke to them saying this is on a mountain in Galilee before he is about to depart from them.

This is after his crucifixion and resurrection. He says to his disciples, all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you.

And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. OK, there's one version of the Great Commission, and then we have another one in Acts 1. So Jesus says, beginning in verse 7, it is not for you to know the times and seasons which the Father has set by his own authority, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and even to the end of the earth.

So in those two versions of Jesus commissioning his disciples to go out to the nations. Right. Do you get the impression from that that Jesus is saying Christianize the nations? What does it mean to Christianize the nations?

Well, that's what I was going to ask. What does that mean? It just it kind of seems to me to say Christianizing the nations would be to spread Christianity. I would assume so. So make everything Christian themed?

Well, no, because we see how bad that can go.

Yeah. If you're if you're understanding Christianize the nations as go, therefore, and make disciples right of the nations, then sure. But if you're talking about Christianizing the nations is just, you know, like what we have in America right now.

Right. Exactly. The whole God bless America thing. Yeah. But which God are we worshiping? What are you talking about? Right. Or even Jesus loves America or something to that effect. Is it the Christ of the Bible that you love and honor?

Or are you taking his name in vain? Right. So what do you mean by Christianize that you just have, you know, the theme of Christ around or that people actually know him and love him and worship him? Yeah.

Right. Observe all that he has commanded. Because when Jesus says here, go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations. I don't see that as Christianize the nations. Right. Christianizing the nations could be something that results from going out and spreading the gospel.

Sure. From making disciples of all the nations.

If it's a result, then it's just fine.

And that result would be by the providence of God. Yes, exactly. Because he moved in the hearts of the people for that to happen. But there are plenty of places where the gospel goes out where. It just makes them feel better.

Well, that wasn't where I was going with that. You know, oh, you know, Jesus is in this. So or Jesus name was mentioned. And so this is OK. You know, like this makes me feel better. And Jesus wants me to be happy.

So it's whatever makes me happy.

You know what I mean? It always makes you feel better. I mean, there are other places what I was saying. There's other places where the gospel goes out and you don't see a lot of change. You do see some people come to Christ.

It's not huge. Yeah. It doesn't result in this massive transformation of the nation. Even years and years and years down the road. So was something done wrong there? No. The measure of whether or not the gospel was successfully preached is not in how many people come to Christ.

Or if that nation becomes Christianized. Right. It's in knowing that the gospel that was preached is actually the gospel that we have from the Bible. Right. It is. It is God. It is the Holy Spirit that transforms the heart and the mind.

We have no power to do that. None. So you could actually, you could change everything in the nation. You could Christianize it and it could still be a lost nation. There was the Philadelphia preacher Donald Barnhouse back in the 90s or 1900s.

This wasn't in the 90s. But anyway. Okay. He had a radio show that was broadcast in Philadelphia. I think was picked up by some other stations around the country as well. And on his radio show, he had done this exercise or done this thing in which he had said, What would Satan's America look like?

And he talked about how everybody is happy and great. Crime is down. Everybody's got nice houses. The economy is good. There's white picket fences. There's faithful marriages. And everybody goes to church on Sunday where Christ is not preached.

Yes. So Satan's America would look like what we might consider to be Christianized America. Right. You could even have in God we trust on all of the currency. Right. But they go to church and Christ is not preached.

That would be Satan's America because he's fooled everybody into thinking that you're right. You're good. You've got it. Yeah. And God loves you and his favor is upon you. And yet they don't worship or honor Christ.

Right. And Satan's scheme has worked in that particular case. But they feel good. Yeah. They feel good. Right. Makes me feel good. Gives me the warm fuzzies. Yeah. I mean, we've got to remember we were saying this during wokeness, but now with this Christian nationalist push, it's like when we were saying this, it totally got forgotten.

But it was Martin Lloyd Jones who was in one of his sermons had said that it is a tragic thing to think that all you need to do is improve a man's environment and you can improve the man. Ah, yeah. That is a tragic fallacy, he said, because it was in paradise that man fell.

So true. We will never make America what the Garden of Eden was. Yeah. So don't think that if we just improve the environment, then everybody will be better. Right. We need to be out there preaching the gospel.

And it doesn't matter what condition or state the country is in. Folks, the country is in the state that it's in because the judgment of God is coming upon it. Right. You can't reverse that. Right. Ecclesiastes, who can straighten what he's made crooked?

And so if it is God's determination that his judgment and his wrath is going to be poured out on America because of the sin and depravity that's been going on for years and years and years and just getting worse and worse and worse, then it doesn't matter if things are good or bad.

We need to be out there preaching the gospel because that's what saves souls. Right. You cannot make America Christian today, but you can share the gospel with someone today. Yes. Very true. Saving lives.

And if all you're trying to do is Christianize America or make it in a better state than it is now, then you're just giving everybody a comfortable seat on their way to hell. Mm-hmm. The gospel has to be there.

It has to be proclaimed. And don't take the outcome or a potential outcome of the Great Commission, like a Christianized nation, and make that the Great Commission. Right. The Great Commission is to go out and make disciples of all the nations.

In other words, people in all the nations. Right. Not Christianizing the nations because maybe that nation will remain in depravity. Right. But we have won people out of the kingdom of darkness that's coming to destruction into the kingdom of Christ, which lasts forever.

Baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you. Teaching who to keep all that I commanded you. You're teaching the disciples that you just made.

Yeah. You can't teach people who are not of Christ to follow Christ. Right. They're already in rebellion against Christ. They'll rebel against it when you teach them. Yep. They have to be shown their sin and given the gospel so that they'll repent and come to Christ.

And then they will observe all that Christ has commanded. Yes. But we're teaching that to disciples. We're not teaching that to the world. That's casting pearls before swine. Right. And that's explicitly, Jesus said in Matthew 7, 6, not to do that.

Mm-hmm. So anyway, yeah, understanding what do we mean with that definition, Christianizing the nations versus going out and making Christians. Mm-hmm. Discipling. And I've got another question about that coming up here in just a little bit with regards to discipling.

Using AI to Write Sermons or Songs

First of all, this question from Bart. Okay. Bart says, have you covered anything about using chat GPT or AI to write sermons? Is it ethical to get a song or a sermon from AI, even if it's solid?

Well, your voice was accused of being AI at one time. That's true. No, I'm just kidding. It has nothing to do with the question.

Just because you have an AI voice on your videos doesn't make them right. It was some sort of comment like that. It's weird. So in case you don't know, AI stands for artificial intelligence. Chat GPT is another form of AI where you can bring up a chat GPT program app, something like that.

You can give it certain cues. Like, for example, I'm preaching this weekend in Romans chapter five, verses 18 to 21. So I could say, give me a sermon on Romans five, 18 to 21. Give me quotes from Charles Spurgeon and Martin Lloyd Jones and give me some study notes from Matthew Henry or something to that effect.

And then hit return. Right. And it could give me a sermon that is solid. It's biblically solid. And even includes all those elements that I wanted it to include. Give me a Greek word and define that Greek word for me or something to that effect.

How many words or how long? Yes.

And you could do this twice or multiple times. So I enter those prompts into the program. It gives me a sermon. If I did those prompts again, same prompts, same request, put it into chat GPT or whatever, AI produces a different sermon than it just gave me.

So it's not like if you just enter the right prompts that it will give you a, it has like this cookie cutout sermon that it's going to give every time that you enter those prompts. Right. It will be a different sermon.

Okay. And it's really astonishing how incredible this works. But that we're developing this and perfecting this and it's becoming more and more prominent. And it's going to become more and more problematic as well.

And I don't just mean in the sense of like preachers won't be preaching their own sermons anymore. I mean that we're literally giving our own conscience over to artificial intelligence. The more and more we involve ourselves in these things.

Why even use your brain? Right. So is it ethical to do this? Well, here's the thing. You could like say you want to do song lyrics. You just want to do song lyrics.

What could be the harm in that? Come up with one line and repeat it 50 times and you're good.

Not a Bethel church version. Oh, okay. Yeah. Not like that. So you give it like a song on the theme of the sovereignty of God. Okay. Or something like that. And maybe you even say, so I just read from Psalm 71.

You say include some lines from Psalm 71. Okay. Make the second and fourth lines rhyme. So you get this song that's produced by AI. It's a solid song. It has all of the elements that you inserted into the prompt.

And all you got to do is add music to it. I'm sure there's probably AI that can do that for you as well. Oh, yeah. Sure. But now you've got these lyrics. So what would be the harm in doing something like that?

Now, I don't know that that's necessarily sinful. I don't know that I could call that sinful. Unless you're taking credit for it and saying you came up with this.

There's also the fact that it's a form of worship. So are you really able... I mean, like, are you worshiping through that? Like, as you're writing something from your brain and your heart and from the Bible itself, it's a form of worship in that...

At least how I think about it. Yeah, right. Is you're giving glory to God. You're giving honor to God. And to have a computer do it, nothing is giving glory or honor to God. Yeah, so you're...

It's just putting words together. You're right on the train of thought that I was thinking of as well. So you couldn't necessarily call it sinful. Right. But is it wise? Right. Because this is not... You're basically asking a computer program to worship for you.

Or to give you, like, how to worship.

Yeah, something like that. Right. Now, I could see where this would be a useful tool. So say, for example, I've written songs before. I've done song lyrics. I'm trying to rhyme something, but I can't find a word to rhyme.

And so you pull out a rhyming dictionary and you find other words that have... Yeah. So it becomes a useful tool in helping you write. Sure. And it helps with your creativity. It's not that your rhyming dictionary is helping you to worship or worshiping for you.

Right. Something to that effect. Right. So I think you can use AI in that way. And it can be something that is a helpful tool. I'm not going to write off AI entirely and say that nobody should ever use this.

It's sinful. Again, I do think this is taking us down a very, very dark road. Yes. That's a conversation for another time. It could. Yeah, it could. It definitely could. But in the meantime, just what we're seeing with AI and the way that you can use it now on an app or something like that, it could be a tool like you're using a thesaurus or a rhyming dictionary or a dictionary itself.

Sure. Something to that effect. It would be a tool just like that. If you're using it to that degree, like help me spur on the idea that I just can't find. Give me some inspiration. Sure. Something to that effect.

I think that that could be very useful. But to let it do that for you, and especially when it comes to writing sermons, I won't ever use AI to write a sermon, period. I am never going to decide today is the day that I'm finally going to use this as a tool to help me write a sermon.