If you're a busy pastor of a small church, who spends a couple days a week on his sermon and the rest of his time ministering to his congregation, you probably don't have time for a social media strategy, even if you have the expertise. If that sounds like you, Michael Whittle says Pulpit AI is designed to help.
The first step is analyzing the pastor’s sermon through audio and/or video.
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“And then it turns it into whatever assets you want,” he tells AFN. “That could be discussion questions for small groups, tweets, blog posts, devotionals, Bible reading plans.”
Like multiplying the loaves and fish, the goal and purpose of Pulpit AI is to take a sermon or a teaching topic and multiply its impact on Facebook, Twitter, and other similar platforms.
The public’s first introduction to real-life artificial intelligence is probably ChatGPT, which has amazed and alarmed people with its ability to produce a news story or a college essay in seconds. Whittle says Pulpit AI is not a similar tool. It is not replacing a Sunday sermon since the sermon itself is the source material for the program.
Whittle says he and his technology team are concerned about theology, too, so you won’t see Buddhist monks using Pulpit AI.
“We plan on being very active and present in how the content is being used,” he says, “and we are committed to historic Christian orthodoxy.”
The target audience for Pulpit AI is a small- to medium-sized church that wants to create content for social media but doesn’t have the budget, time and staff to do it.
“So that's the heart behind it,” Whittle says.
