Justin R. LesterFounder & AI-Ministry Strategist, TheoXTech · Pastor. Professor. AI Strategist.

168 hours in a week. You get maybe 3 with your people.

22 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Justin R. Lester argues that three hours of church a week can't compete with the other 165 hours shaping your beliefs. AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini are now doing the discipleship work churches used to do, and without daily intentional formation, the church is losing spiritual influence entirely.

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People are being discipled by something. And a lot of times they're not being discipled sometimes at our churches because Sunday morning is not discipleship. Y'all know this. So Sunday morning is not discipleship. And 1 hour a week in small groups isn't going to do it. Disciples were with Jesus all day. Talk back to me, somebody. And so people are being discipled by something. 168 hours a week, 3 hours with you isn't going to change their lives. They're being discipled by something. And what we see here is ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude are doing a lot of that hard work for them.