Pastoral Formation in the Age of AI: A Pastor's Confession, Awakening, and Search for Faithful Clarity

AI awakened me at 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Not literally, but psychologically. Why was I awake at this hour, arguing with AI about sermon language?

As a bivocational pastor drowning in demands, I invited AI to help. It proved invaluable. But somewhere between efficiency and dependence, I lost something I didn't know could be lost.

This is my confession. Not a condemnation of AI, not blind advocacy--but an honest account of how my use of a simple AI chatbot reshaped my ministry without m...