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Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

BIBLICAL COUNSELING STORIES—AI THERAPY AND THE BIBLE – PART 4

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.9717 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Transformed Podcast Episode 111 | February 20, 2025 Dr. Greg Gifford concludes his series on AI and chatbot therapy with practical advice for Christians. In this episode, he outlines how believers can responsibly engage with generative AI tools like ChatGPT while safeguarding their relationships and worldview. Learn how to integrate these technologies into your life without compromising your faith. ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0

What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?

0:03.9

Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.

0:07.8

I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.

0:10.5

God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.

0:14.8

God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.

0:19.9

The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is

0:24.4

Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's

0:30.1

University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford, and this is the final episode of my series on AI, chat GPT, chat bot therapy.

0:46.8

I've entitled this series Biblical Counseling Stories because I want to kind of help do reporting for you from biblical counseling world.

0:53.9

So I've said people, organizations,

0:56.1

events, but as of late, chat bot therapy has been blowing up. In fact, even as I was preparing

1:02.5

for this final episode, in today's episode, we will cover how should a Christian use chat bots,

1:10.2

chat GPT, or just generative AI in general?

1:13.8

Even as I was preparing for this, there were multiple things.

1:16.6

I learned that there is now a chatbot pastor taking place.

1:19.6

The Wall Street Journal published another article about young kids, I think minors 14, 15, 16,

1:26.5

using chatbot therapy. So it's just growing. So today I really

1:31.0

want to focus on the positive use. So one of the things that I'm hesitant to do and I try to

1:36.0

avoid this as best as possible is just critiquing something without contributing and reconstructing.

1:41.3

And I don't mean reconstructing in some weird faith way, but I just mean giving you

1:44.7

something to reconstruct and to think about. So you do have to tear down false teaching and then build

1:50.2

sound doctrine and sound teaching. So today in this final capstone is turning an angle, turning a corner

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