How Any Average Christian Can Be A Mass Influencer For Christ Now

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During recent history, God has, in His Providence, brought about major technological advancement. This advancement, in turn, has brought about major communications and media democratization, in which average people are able to create media and distribute it on a global scale. Obviously, the Internet has been the most consequential medium in media democratization. Coming up behind it though is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Of course, which is what I will focus on here, the Internet (while admittedly furthering anti-Christian propaganda simultaneously) has helped ordinary Christians spread the Gospel, disciple believers, defend the faith, expose the lies of unbiblical belief-systems, etc. on a global level. And there is one aspect of AI that, Lord willing, will be a means of further using this media democratization for the advance and defense of the Kingdom of God, which I want to cover here!

With advancing AI software, ordinary Christians will soon be able to write sermons (and similar things), convert them into natural-sounding MP3 files, and broadcast and distribute them on the Internet to the whole world (at least, the entire portion of the world that has Internet access).

First, let's focus on the positives of this development! While, again, the Internet has, over the past recent decades, already made it possible for ordinary people to create media and publish it on a global scale, text-to-speech AI technology, as it is rapidly advancing, lowers the technical-quality barrier between marginal media and dominant media (often with Christian media being marginal and secular media being dominant). Also, remember how the Bible was kept out of the hands of the ordinary people before God brought about the printing press and the Protestant Reformation? Well, new text-to-speech AI software will enable faithful ordinary people to bypass unfaithful, but powerful, gatekeepers in the professing Christian media world. Furthermore, Christians with the gifts of teaching and preaching who may not be qualified to be elders or deacons would be able to use their gifts instead of, to use a Biblical metaphor, burying their talents. Speaking of allowing Christians who may not be qualified to be pastors or deacons exert godly influence through preaching and teaching, that brings me to the last benefit of this technological development that I want to focus on here: it will, in the cases of Biblically-sound teaching being promulgated through this technology, keep the focus on Christ, as He is taught and proclaimed in the content of teaching and preaching, rather than the teachers and preachers. One of the major downsides of being a public teacher or preacher is that, though it is literally a logical fallacy to do this, many critics of Christianity discount the content of Christian preaching and teaching on the grounds of the preacher or teacher's sins (real or imagined). Don't get me wrong: Christians are without excuse when they fail, in any way, to measure up to Christ's moral character. The question here isn't: should Christians strive for consistency between their profession and their actions? The answer to that question is obvious! No, the question here is: should the doctrine of Christianity itself be judged as either false or immoral (or both) on the basis of the sins of its adherents? The answer to that question is equally obvious: no! We don't (and shouldn't) judge any other belief-system that way, and it would be fallacious to judge Christianity in that way as well. So, getting back to that final positive, in a Christian media environment where Biblically-sound content is anonymous produced, people will be forced, by necessity, to reckon with the only thing that truly matters as far as the truth and morality of Christianity is concerned: the Bible's doctrinal content. That's obviously not all the potential benefits that are likely to come from this technological development (which benefits I want to facilitate through this article), but I have to stop somewhere!

Second, we need to address some equally likely negative results of advancing text-to-speech AI technology being used in this way. Again, the Internet, as well as other technologies that have massively contributed to media democratization throughout history, have not only enabled ordinary godly people to advance the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ (and the rest of the Word of God), but they have also massively helped ordinary ungodly people to flood the world with lies, which have resulted in both the temporal and eternal destruction of (literally and seriously) an amount of people that only God knows and comprehends. What makes it even more grievous is all the false and fallacious (but unfortunately effective) tactics that manage to persuade masses of people to believe these lies. And it hasn't just been anti-Christians; pseudo-Christian preachers and teachers have also been able to weaponize these technologies to pour out their sewage. It would be foolish for us to expect any less from emerging media democratization technologies. We need to, by trust, hold to God and His Word as our only epistemological and ethical authority and, by that faith, reason and plead with unbelievers from that foundation, including always when we have to respond to anti-Christian propaganda or pseudo-Christian teaching from open enemies or false followers of Christ. If we learn how to always and effectively counter those lies with our new media-production and media-distribution technologies, we will do well! Another potential problem is anonymity being a cloak for sins in communication. We've seen a recent example of this with the allegations against former G3 Ministries president Josh Buice, though, based off what I've heard about the allegations, he is not being accused of using text-to-speech AI software (for the record, I'm finishing this part of the article on the night of May 24, 2025). But the point still stands: just as anonymity can be a tool to draw attention away from a preacher or teacher to Christ (again, as He is revealed in Biblically-sound doctrinal content), so it can be a tool to avoid negative consequences of sinful speech, including slander. So, my advice for those who want to anonymously produce Bible-based doctrinal content through text-to-speech AI software (and this is, obviously, just advice on my part, not a law, because I clearly don't have that authority) is to work out and ensure a way where your local church (which you should belong to, because God gives all the "one another" commands to Christians in the New Testament in the contexts of local churches) knows everything you're doing. If you want to do it anonymously for the sake of drawing attention to Christ and not yourself (which should be the ONLY reason you do it anonymously if you choose to do it anonymously), then make sure your local church knows without anyone outside it knowing so you don't become another "celebrity Christian" and draw people's attention and trust to yourself! Another potential downside I want to address is the flipside of one of the potential benefits I described: DO NOT let it be an excuse for you to not pursue the mature spiritual state that qualifies a Christian man to be an elder or deacon in a church! While anonymous preaching and teaching is a way for Christians who don't want to go down the "celebrity preacher" route or who are, for whatever reasons, unqualified or disqualified from serving as a pastor or deacon, to use their gifts in such a way as to bring glory to Christ and not bring attention to themselves so people don't engage in the fallacies of either crediting them for good preaching and teaching or condemning Biblical doctrine on the basis of their sins, it is also not for those who are unrepentant of their sins or are lackadaisical about the kind of spiritual maturity that qualifies someone to be an elder or deacon in a church (which positions shouldn't be the ultimate goal of pursuing spiritual maturity-rather, pleasing and glorifying God should be the ultimate goal). If you are not wholeheartedly devoted to living for Christ, do yourself and the entire world a favor and DO NOT do preaching or teaching, even anonymously! The final potential detriment I want to deal with is: encouraging cowardice. This can take many forms, but one kind that comes to mind is anonymously calling out false teaching (whether unbiblical or pseudobiblical) in order to avoid the cost of publicly identifying with Christ. Here, I'm NOT talking about Christians in countries where they are literally persecuted for their faith in Christ and practicing it (oh, that's a MASSIVE potential benefit I missed: Christians using this technology in countries where they are persecuted for their faith!)! No, I'm talking about professing Christians who just don't want to suffer the humiliation of either being definitive on Biblical teaching or being opposed to unbiblical or pseudobiblical beliefs and values! So, ask yourself: what is your motivation for preaching and teaching anonymously? Is it because you're ashamed of Christ and His words (Luke 9:26)? Or is it because you want Christ to get the glory and not you?

May the Holy Spirit use this article to advance and defend the faith of the Word of God!