New Dawn Ministries has introduced 'Soul Prompts,' an innovative method that leverages AI, social media, and group mind mapping to deepen the faith of Christians and foster community engagement. According to Amy Chang of New Dawn Ministries, these modern technologies offer immense potential for spiritual enrichment.
Soul Prompts are versatile phrases that serve multiple purposes. They can stand alone as sources of inspiration, be used in social media posts to provoke thought and discussion, function as AI prompts to generate insightful responses, and act as central themes for group mind mapping sessions.
John Toomey, Director of Communities at New Dawn, describes Soul Prompts as both ancient and ultra-modern, offering Christians a unique way to invite insights from the Holy Spirit and build fellowship. 'A single phrase can have life-changing power if it can be re-purposed endlessly through all the ways humans have invented to extract meaning,' he says.
A Soul Prompt can originate from various sources, such as a favorite Scripture verse, a burning question about the Christian life, or a personal insight inspired by the Holy Spirit. Examples of effective Soul Prompts include Bible quotes like 'My Grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness' and 'For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.'
Soul Prompts take four distinct forms:
1. The initial phrase, which serves as a source of inspiration or a persistent question about one's spiritual life.
2. The social media form, designed to be provocative enough to invite extensive comments when posted online.
3. The AI prompt form, optimized to extract wisdom-evoking responses from AI programs such as ChatGPT.
4. The phrase used as a central topic in mind mapping programs like generateideas.ai, Miro, or MindMeister, facilitating shared visions of fellowship.
Soani Gunawan, New Dawn's Education Director, summarizes the power of Soul Prompts: 'They engage a believer initially through curiosity, awe, love, mystery, or bliss; then they efficiently draw in new interested people and visions through social media; then they unleash the massive power of modern Generative AI to invoke more insight; then they provide inspirational touchstones for Spirit-filled discussions via group mind mapping.'
Soul Prompts have been rigorously tested on Christian group sites with large followings, including 'Christian Topics' (248,000 members), 'God Created Heaven and the Earth' (265,000 members), and 'Pray for Humanity' (4 million subscribers).
To minimize the risk of AI-generated inaccuracies, users of Soul Prompts employ multiple AI platforms that deliver exemplary results, such as ChatGPT, Gemini.google.com, Copilot (Microsoft), Claude.ai, Meta's LLaMA, and Perplexity.ai.
The group's website also offers pages in multiple languages, including Chinese, Hindi, Swahili, and Tagalog, reflecting its international interest.
