06/24/2026
Every generation encounters new tools that reshape the way people live, communicate, and understand the world. In our own time, the internet and artificial intelligence have become powerful forces in daily life.
Like all human inventions, they carry both tremendous promise and significant dangers. They can be used to spread truth or deception, wisdom or ignorance, compassion or cruelty. Yet the existence of misuse does not make a thing evil in itself.
Scripture repeatedly reveals a God who takes what was intended for harm and transforms it into an opportunity for grace. He takes those things intended for harm, darkness, and evil and transforms them into glowing testimonies of his redemption and glory.
The most profound example is the Cross. An instrument of humiliation, torture, and death became the very means through which Christ conquered sin and opened the way to salvation. What humanity intended for destruction, God redeemed for glory.
We see this pattern throughout the biblical narrative. Joseph, betrayed and sold into slavery by his brothers, later declared, "You mean evil against me, but God meant it for good" (Genesis 50:20). The persecution of the early Church scattered believers across the known world, yet that very scattering became the means by which the Gospel spread to new lands. Again, and again God demonstrates that darkness does not have the final word.
The same principle applies to modern technologies. The Internet can be a place of exploitation, division, and falsehood, but it can also carry the Gospel across continents, connect the lonely with community, provide education to the underserved, and offer prayer, hope, and encouragement to those who might never walk through a church door.
AI can be misused to deceive or manipulate, but it can also assist in research, accessibility, learning, creativity, and ministry when employed with wisdom and integrity.
A tool is never inherently evil, but the question becomes how do we choose to use it. Humanity was entrusted with stewardship from the beginning. God always called His people to exercise discernment, wisdom, and moral responsibility in the use of every gift placed before them. A hammer can build a home or destroy one. Fire can warm a family or burn a village. Technology is no different.
As Christians we are called to examine our motives, test our actions against the teachings of Christ, and consider our own bias. We must continually seek God's will in all things, not our own. and lean not on our own understanding. We must be mindful that not every door should be opened, not every curiosity should be pursued, and not every opportunity should be embraced.
How many of you remember, in the movie Jurassic Park, when Jeff Goldblum said, your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think about whether or not they should"? The presence of a tool in front of us does not remove our responsibility to use it responsibly.
When guided by prayer, humility, and discernment, modern tools can be instruments of service, compassion, learning, and evangelization. The challenge is not only to ask what technology can do for us, but what would God have us do with it.
In this way, even in an age of algorithms and AI, we bear witness to the enduring truth that God's light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
