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Spirit-empowered ministers face questions about how artificial intelligence is shaping the people they serve. Congregants may turn to chatbots for spiritual counsel, while pastors weigh the use of AI tools in their ministries. An unusual episode involving an AI-agent-created religion, the Church of Molt, offers an occasion to examine the development of generative AI and the Church’s responsibility in the face of it. This article adapts Paul Hiebert’s method of critical contextualization to examine the five tenets of this machine religion as a prophetic mirror for the Church. It exposes questions about memory, transformation, authority, attention, and belonging. Read in light of Scripture, they invite Spirit-empowered Christians to self-assess and recover practices of testimony, communal discernment, prayer, and embodied care.
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