Breath (Second Edition) | Paperback + eBook Bundle

This bundle includes the paperback and the eBook of The Breath and the Machine.

You are probably already using AI, or someone in your house is. Maybe it helps you study, write, or carry the administrative load, and part of you wonders whether you should feel guilty about it. Maybe you are afraid of it, and every headline about where it is headed makes you more uneasy. Either way, nobody in your church has handed you a biblical way to think about it.

The Breath and the Machine starts with Scripture, not the tech press. Ben Everson, a traveling minister who uses these tools every day, draws one clear line: AI is a tool, never an oracle. Held as a tool, it can serve faithful work. Consulted as an oracle, it replaces the very things that make us human and make us holy. This book shows you how to unlock the first without falling into the second.

Who is this for?

• Believers who use AI every day and want biblical guardrails
• Christians who are afraid of AI and want a calm, Scripture-first view
• Pastors and parents helping others think it through
• Anyone in ministry using AI for study, writing, or administration

Contents

• Author's Note
• Part One: The Moment
• 1. Why We Need to Talk About This
• 2. When, Not If
• 3. This Is Personal
• 4. The State of Things
• Part Two: Understanding
• 5. What AI Is and What It Isn't
• 6. Why We Build
• 7. When It Feels Alive (The Singularity)
• 8. What It Can Do Already
• Part Three: Unlocking
• 9. What Bezaleel Knew
• 10. Meat Offered to Idols
• 11. Setting the Parameters
• 12. The Credit Line
• 13. How I Work with AI
• Part Four: Guarding
• 14. The Fears, Graded
• 15. The Mirror and the Amplifier
• 16. Replacing the Holy Spirit
• 17. What Is Truth?
• 18. "I Don't Care If It's Real If It's Good!"
• 19. Turning Goliath's Sword Against Him
• Part Five: Gathering
• 20. The Future Is Local
• 21. My AI Manifesto
• Appendix: Stenography, Ghostwriting, and AI
• Field Notes

Page count: 254 (second edition)

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