Preaching Truth vs. Processing Truth

Dec 1 / Donald Jenkins, CEO, MPDC, Lead Consultant

Planting a church is a big undertaking—but equipping members to process truth is a bigger assignment.

While pastors are pouring resources into buildings, programs, and launch teams, tech giants are pouring billions into AI-Superfactories designed to shape how people think, react, and interpret truth.

The battlefield has shifted. Church plants gather people once a week, but AI-Superfactories disciple them every hour. If we don’t equip believers to process truth in a digital environment engineered to override conviction, then the machine will shape their behavior faster than the church can preach.

The future of ministry won’t belong to the churches that plant the most campuses—but to the leaders who train their people to recognize, resist, and outthink the algorithms discipling them.

Ministering the Gospel in Digital Environments Requires a Different Leadership Level

November 1990 was my first church plant and my biggest concerns were: 
  • Preaching weekly
  • Weekly attendance
  • Financial support
  • Developing leaders
  • Praise music
  • Youth ministry etc.
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Spiritual warfare was much simpler back then. When something didn't seem right in how people responded to the gospel, we simply prayed against the devil's attack.

Not once did I have to consider the influence of intelligent machines. Smartphones wasn't even an invention back then so people still brought their Bible's to church.

Fast-forward to 2025 and smartphones have entered the sanctuary.  

What is the Truth Processing Unit (TPU)?

The Truth Processing Unit (TPU) is the part of the mind responsible for:
  • Interpreting truth
  • Aligning behavior with conviction
  • Rebuilding the structural integrity of purpose
  • Converting revelation into obedience.


Before smartphones, the TPU was trained through Scripture, meditation, and spiritual discipline. But today’s digital environment has rewired the brain to react, not reflect—leaving many believers with a gospel they hear but cannot process.

An offline TPU means the mind receives truth but cannot translate it into behavior, leaving sermons unpracticed, revelation unactivated, and spiritual growth stalled. The TPU is not mystical—it’s the executive-function engine that God designed to engage conviction, evaluate choices, and fuel obedience. When it’s offline, people love the Word but struggle to live the Word.

As soon as church is over, they revert back to the same habits of training AI-Superfactories.

People are Wired to Intelligent Systems

Unlike the early 90's when I started my first church, people are wired to intelligent machines that disrupt how truth is processed within the soul. Preachers are preaching great sermons but sending people into the world with offline TPU's.

When the TPU is offline, your members' smartphone scrolling habits will be used to train AI-Superfactories to exploit weaknesses within their soul. 

AI is not evil—it's doing exactly what it was engineered to do. AI-Superfactories are designed to shape attitude and behavior with a greater degree of efficiency than sermons. Every church plant creates:
  • one building
  • one leader
  • one team
  • one congregation
  • one teaching stream


But every AI-superfacory plant creates:
  • millions of behavior loops
  • millions of micro-sermons per day
  • millions of discipleship interactions
  • millions of competing truths
  • millions of rewired TPUs 
  • millions of algorithmic conversions
    

There's way more discipleship happening outside of church than in church!

Don't Be Fooled by What You See On Sunday Morning

Most pastors only see:
  • physical buildings
  • physical attendance
  • physical response to sermons

They do not see:
  • digital discipling
  • behavioral engineering
  • algorithmic attention control
  • AI-generated obedience interference
  • smartphone-trained TPUs 
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The church plant people gatherers.
AI-Superfactories plant people shapers.

The future of ministry will not be defined by how many people we gather, but by how many Truth Processing Units we bring back online.

In a digital age where AI-Superfactories shape behavior with more consistency than Sunday sermons, churches cannot afford to send believers back into a world where their minds remain unshielded and their scroll-gates untrained. The next era of ministry requires leaders who understand that discipleship is no longer just teaching truth—it is engineering the conditions for people to process truth in environments designed to suppress it.

When the TPU is offline, members cannot discern, cannot resist, and cannot obey at the level Scripture requires. But when the TPU is restored, believers regain their God-given ability to be formed by revelation rather than by algorithms. The future church will thrive not because it gathers the most people, but because it grows the most truth-shaped people.
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