Shepherding Image Bearers

What is a shepherd for, when the machine can talk?

Your people now carry a voice in their pockets that will answer any question at any hour. They ask it about suffering, about forgiveness, about whether God is real. Some of them have started asking it before they ask you.

Shepherding Image Bearers is a book for pastors, elders, and ministry leaders about what artificial intelligence is doing to the people in their care, and what it can never do. Written by a builder of AI for the Church who has spent years listening to pastors, it is neither fearful nor dazzled. It argues that the deepest danger of this age is a mistake about where human worth comes from, and that the ordinary work of shepherding, knowing people by name, preaching as one who has been sent, sitting with the grieving, going after the one, has never mattered more.

Inside: thirteen chapters in four parts; a practical ethic for using AI in ministry, with seven questions to ask before adopting any tool; guidance on privacy, deepfakes, and the scams that target congregations; questions and a practice for every chapter; a six-meeting plan for staff and elder teams; and a sample church technology covenant.