Can Pastors Use AI to Prepare Sermons?
AI can streamline sermon research, but faithful preaching still requires biblical integrity, personal study, and Spirit-led transformation.
“I watch the university students I hang out with get their education from YouTube and TikTok. But that’s a forum we can get into. We don’t have to start at Harvard to change the generation. I have had a minor role in advising some aspects of the Israeli government and I’ve said, ‘Look you’ve got to do a full court press man you’ve got to teach people you’ve gotta train them.’ The sympathy factor, which is a lot of where our very emotional college students are persuaded, is with the Palestinians.
The average college student doesn’t even know what a Palestinian is, so we can educate them. We can win this thing. We can win hearts and minds. I’m not sure, frankly, we’ve shown up for the battle.”
Stephen Mansfield is a New York Times best-selling author and a popular speaker who also leads a media training firm based in Washington, DC.
He first rose to global attention with his groundbreaking book The Faith of George W. Bush, a bestseller that Time magazine credited with helping to shape the 2004 US presidential election. The book was also a source for Oliver Stone’s award-winning film “W.” Mansfield’s The Faith of Barack Obama was another international bestseller. He has written celebrated biographies of Booker T. Washington, George Whitefield, Winston Churchill, Pope Benedict XVI, and Abraham Lincoln, among others. Publishers Weekly described his book, Killing Jesus, as “masterful.”
Stephen’s humorous but fiery Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men has inspired men’s events in the US and abroad. His more recent The Miracle of the Kurds has been selected as “Book of the Year” by Rudaw, the leading Kurdish news service. As a result of this book, Mansfield has become a respected voice in support of the Kurds against the evils of ISIS in the Middle East.
Stephen speaks widely about men, leadership, faith, the lessons of history, and the forces that shape modern culture. He also leads a media training firm, The Mansfield Group, that has worked with top politicians, CEOs, rock stars, major publishing firms, and educational institutions around the world.
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