05/06/2026
Barna released a study this week. One in three American adults now says AI spiritual guidance is just as trustworthy as a pastor's.
Among Millennials, it's 44%. Among practicing Christians, 34%.
Read that again. A third of the people in your church trust a chatbot as much as they trust the person behind the pulpit.
This isn't an AI problem. This is a teaching problem.
When the church stopped teaching clearly on identity, money, purpose, and calling, it created a vacuum. And technology filled it. People aren't leaving the faith for robots. They're leaving unclear leadership for something that at least gives them a direct answer.
In the book, The Power To Prosper, I write about how faith doesn't come from going to church. You can sit in every service, take notes, and amen every point. But if you're not hearing the Word for yourself, sowing it, speaking it, and standing on it, you're not building faith. You're spectating.
And spectators go looking for better content.
Hosea 4:6 says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."
It doesn't say the devil destroyed them. It says lack of knowledge did.
This week: ask yourself whether the people in your sphere are getting clear teaching or comfortable sermons. If the answer is uncomfortable, good. That's where the change starts.
Kap Chatfield
(We follow his teachings but JESUS CHRIST, The Word, is our standard)
