Church Leader's Guide to Artificial Intelligence: Understanding AI's Impact on Ministry, Theology, and Culture

Artificial intelligence is changing everything-including how we worship, serve, and lead.

In this groundbreaking and accessible guide, Rev. Dr. Christopher Benek helps pastors, educators, and ministry innovators understand how AI is reshaping faith, theology, and culture. With clarity, depth, and pastoral wisdom, he offers a practical framework for engaging emerging technologies through a Christian lens-balancing innovation with discernment.

You'll discover how AI is already influencing preaching, discipleship, stewardship, and mission, and how the Church can respond faithfully rather than fearfully. Each chapter includes real-world examples, reflection questions, and actionable insights to help leaders navigate ethical, theological, and cultural challenges in the age of machine intelligence.

Whether you're an early adopter, a cautious skeptic, or simply curious about what AI means for the Gospel, this book will equip you to lead with wisdom, courage, and hope.

Key themes include:

• What AI is and how it works in daily life
• The opportunities and limits of AI in ministry
• Ethical and theological questions about human identity, dignity, and justice
• How the Church can shape the future of technology rather than react to it

More than a manual, The Church Leader's Guide to Artificial Intelligence is a call for the Church to reclaim its role as a shaping voice in culture-leading not with fear, but with faith.

Part of the Church Leader's Guide series from TryTank Press, a ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary.