<div>ChatGPT’s Gospel Preaching Process: A Grounded Theory Study</div><div>Chua En Rui<sup>a</sup>*</div><div><sup>a</sup>Independent Researcher, Singapore, Singapore</div><div>*corresponding author: Chua En Rui</div><div>Email: enruichua@gmail.com</div><div>ChatGPT’s Gospel Preaching Process: A Grounded Theory Study</div><div>Recent strides in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made using AI to
automate the process of sermon preparation a possibility. However, AI’s
process of preaching is still poorly understood. This paper contributes
by evaluating 27 evangelistic sermons generated by ChatGPT using
Grounded Theory to study its process of preaching the gospel. The study
revealed ChatGPT’s use of sharing personal testimony, delivering the
gospel as found in the Bible, and appealing to unbelievers to preach the
gospel. The necessity of the transformative power of the gospel was
identified as the core category. Theological comprehensiveness and
orthodoxy of the sermons were also evaluated.</div><div>Keywords: artificial intelligence; ChatGPT; grounded theory; empirical
theology; gospel; evangelical; large language model</div>