The news: Pastor and scholar Greg Cootsona, in a Christianity Today video interview, raises a pressing concern about AI chatbots — that people are increasingly substituting chatbot conversations for genuine human connection. His recent CT article, It's Not Good To Be Alone — With Chatbots, explores how the always-available nature of chatbots may be quietly eroding the depth of real relationships.
Why it matters for church leaders: The church's irreplaceable gift to the world is genuine community — people known by name, prayed over, and truly seen. If your congregation members, especially younger ones, are turning to chatbots for emotional support and conversation, that is a discipleship gap worth addressing from the pulpit and in small groups.
The takeaway: Start a conversation in your next leaders' meeting about how your church is actively building the kind of real human connection that no chatbot can replicate.
Source: Christianity Today
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