The AI era may be the greatest disruption the church has ever faced, and its greatest opportunity to reach more people. Carey Nieuwhof shows you how to build a ministry ready for today’s culture and whatever comes next.
The AI era may be the greatest disruption the church has ever faced, and its greatest opportunity to reach more people. The disruption isn't coming. It's here. The question is whether your church is ready.
Work is changing fast. Mental health is declining. Truth itself feels up for grabs. And people are searching desperately for something real. That something is Jesus — and your church is where they'll find him.
Here's the hope: a world growing more artificial by the day will produce people desperately hungry for what's real. For genuine community. For unchanging truth. For human connection that actually means something.
But the church that thrives in this moment isn't just any church. It's the church that rethinks Sundays to build deeper community. That shores up its finances before giving drops as unemployment rises. Whose leaders fortify their integrity before deception becomes so widespread that it seems unstoppable.
The church's future direction is human connection. And while the rest of the world scrambles to figure out what that means in an age of artificial intelligence, the church has been answering that question for two thousand years. You may be more prepared for this moment than you think.
In AI and the Future Church, Carey Nieuwhof gives you the three shifts every church leader needs to make now:
“In a confusing world of technological change, we need to ground ourselves in the ancient, unchanging truth of our faith. Carey Nieuwhof’s masterful AI and the Future Church shows us how.”
—Arthur C. Brooks, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Meaning of Your Life
“AI is changing our world by the minute and most church leaders I know are asking the same two questions: How do I use this wisely? And how do I prepare my church for what’s coming? My good friend Carey Nieuwhof just wrote a book on exactly this. It’s called AI and the Future Church, and it’s one of the most practical, thoughtful, and helpful things I’ve read on the topic. If you want to learn how to leverage AI to reach more people and help your church navigate what’s coming, grab this book for you and your whole team.”
—Craig Groeschel, Pastor of Life.Church
“Nobody knows the future but God. The best futurists are actually presentists; they see what’s actually happening with prescient vision. There’s plenty of fearmongering around AI but reading Carey’s book gave me great hope: Our rapidly changing culture may just be the pressure we need to finally make the changes to how we do church that we should have made long ago. ‘Make Sundays non-downloadable’ again.”
—John Mark Comer, Founder of Practicing the Way and New York Times Bestselling Author
“We all know AI is deeply changing our lives, and that it will have a massive impact on the church, but few of us have the capacity or expertise to think through the formative power it will have on us all. That’s why I am so grateful for Carey Nieuwhof and this important book. Carey has taken the time to think through the theological, cultural, and discipleship ramifications of AI and how the church can remain not just faithful but fruitful in light of what’s to come. I believe his wisdom and insights will help many find a way forward.”
—Jon Tyson, Author and Pastor of church.nyc
