Episode 16: AI Can't Love: Women in Ministry and Artificial Intelligence in the Church With Dr. Kristen Ferguson of Gateway Seminary + Cheerwine Soda Review and Pleading the Blood of Jesus in Prayer.

Another action-packed episode of the ECF podcast today. Gateway Seminary VP Dr. Kristen Ferguson joins us, and our co-hosts are school superintendent Lanette Lozano and Women's ministry expert Dr. Cathie Smith. Today, we talk about how women in the church are a fundamental key to church flourishing that no wise leader should ever overlook. We will also talk to Dr. Ferguson about AI - can AI take the place of counseling, pastors, sermon prep? How much should Christians lean on AI? We've got Cal Baptist BAT student JC back with us for a review of the South's favorite cherry beverage - Cheerwine - does it actually contain wine? And, finally, we are going to talk about prayer and pleading the blood of Jesus. Is that a thing? Is it biblical? Is there power in pleading the blood of Jesus? Maybe not…but we will discuss one key to faithful, power-packed prayer that is indeed biblical and is also often overlooked. Don't give women the light stuff…we all need meat…we all need the Word of God. Soda Review - Cheerwine, thank you to Virginia listener Jesse W. After Hours ministry - share the gospel with women who are in sex trafficking. A good leader says, I don't really care about how I look, I care about the mission. I cannot commune with God through AI - AI is not the replacement for a living active relationship with the Living God. Idols from the Old Testament did not talk, but AI actually talks. No one is saying that people are worshiping AI, but functionally, we can be going to AI and depending on it for so much of what we do day to day that we could be replacing God with it. A hidden danger of AI is that people will rely on it for deep spiritual conversations that they should be having instead in the Body of Christ…it might make our relationships shallower if we scratch our itch for deep dialog with a machine rather than an Image Bearer. AI can't love