{"id":3238,"date":"2025-01-28T17:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T22:57:06","slug":"ai-and-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/ai-and-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Artificial Intelligence is here to stay! It is critical as a pastor and a church body to understand how it is used and the impact it can have on a church in a positive and negative manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MMBA is in the process of scheduling a training for pastors in March. I highly recommend reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/midmarylandba.us22.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=9781fab229e24b1acdd4fc326&amp;id=bbbb3c342f&amp;e=8e88a552d0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>AI and the Church: A Clear Guide for the Curious and Courageous<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Be looking for the March date and be sure to mark your calendars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unnamed-2-1-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unnamed-2-1-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unnamed-2-1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unnamed-2-1-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unnamed-2-1-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/unnamed-2-1-2048x1024.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence is here to stay! It is critical as a pastor and a church body to understand how it is used and the impact it can have on a church in a positive and negative manner. MMBA is in the process of scheduling a training for pastors in March. I highly recommend reading\u00a0AI and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-events","8":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MMBA-Posts-4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midmarylandba.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}