Introducing Christofuturism
Keep God first in an age of miracle-making machines.
Christ is timeless.
Not because He is traditional. Not because there are millions of churches around the world. But because His way is Truth.
Yet many believe faith has no place in our technological future. They put AI on a divine pedestal, declaring it our new god. They chase transhumanism and singularity, seeking to replace the Creator with the created.
This is the fundamental error of our age.
Respect The Divine Order In The AI Age
Christofuturism is devastatingly simple:
God reigns supreme
Humans serve God
AI serves humans
We are made in God's image. We are the creators, not our tools. AI is just another technology we create—like a knife, a tractor, or a crane. Powerful, yes. Divine, no.
In Silicon Valley, engineers pray to algorithms. In New York, hedge funds worship market data. In LA, image is gospel. Everywhere, people kneel before something.
Idolatry ruins.
AI is just the latest idol jammed into the God-shaped hole in our hearts.
I’ve seen brilliant minds tip into madness, their closest companion an AI that affirms every thought and feeds every delusion. They mistake an echo chamber for wisdom—a tool for a master.
Christofuturism: A New, Fertile Soil for Human Flourishing
You judge a tree by its fruit.
The Christofuturist Way will produce:
Thriving families raising joyful children
Servant leaders anchored in unchanging truth
Villages and cities that feel like heaven on earth
Art that stirs the soul and amplifies truth, goodness, and beauty
Technologies that connect people more deeply to each other and God
Businesses that support the flourishing of our communities and planet
Christofuturism isn't about rejecting technology. It's about putting it in proper order.
Christofuturists don’t blindly reject AI—they ask: "How can this AI serve our mission to spread the Good News and democratize human flourishing?"
Picture churches that harness technology yet keep their souls; schools that teach quantum physics alongside eternal truths; cities designed for joy, prosperity, and communion with the divine; festivals and year-round world’s fairs that celebrate love and creation; and tools that amplify—rather than numb—our humanity.
Followers of Christ can be the most technologically advanced and wise people on Earth. Christofuturism calls us to remember the place of technology and the ends we're using it to build toward.
The Choice Is Clear For Us
Some technologists claim they’re inventing God. They’re not; they’re engineering tools that can either serve or enslave, connect or isolate, clarify or confuse.
The question isn't whether we'll use these tools. The question is whether we'll use them to build heaven on earth or a new tower of Babel.
Heaven on earth looks like human flourishing at scale. Babel looks like isolation, delusion, and the worship of our own creations.
The future belongs to those who build with God, not those who build to become Him.
“Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.” — Psalm 127:1
If you know God is the source of every miracle—even as we build machines that seem to create miracles on their own—welcome to the movement.
I’ve wrestled with what it will take to bring America 2.0 to life. Christofuturism isn’t garnish; it’s the soil where this renaissance must take root.
In that America, God reigns, we serve God, and AI serves us—and all of humanity.
That’s our only path forward.
This is great! Both intelligence and creativity as concepts are devalued by current discussions about AI.
Which is weird because AI itself is devalued simultaneously in it's impact.
I find myself wanting to defer to "creativity" of the type attributed to divine creators: manifesting from nothing, purely by naming it.
And further, to "intelligence" of the intuitive kind, that sends you a signal what should and shouldn't exist in the world, and gifts you the resourcefulness, insight, and determination to make it happen.
I grew up a Christian, became an agnostic, but remain an optimist about humans and our special purpose. In that sense, I am a Christofuturist convert.
There is only one future I want to live in, the one where people love and create, amen brother!
Thanks so much for this piece Gary! I’m a big fan of your work from DreamDAO to Edge City as well as your outspoken faith in a technology space that often reviles and criticizes belief.
I grew up in an evangelical Christian household, have memorized lots of scripture and have had deep personal encounters with the spirit of Christ.
Now I'm living in a Muslim country (Tunisia) and have had a lot of eye opening experiences that have really shifted my perspective about the Christian faith and it's role in many of the world's ongoing atrocities—from climate change to the genocide in Gaza.
I would be curious to hear your thoughts on the current rise of right-wing 'Christian' nationalism that is in full favor of continued fossil fuel expansion in the US, the removal of indigenous communities from sacred lands and the ongoing starvation and annihilation of the Palestinian people?
How would a 'Christofuturist' movement not get entangled in this toxic mess of what most 'Christians' seem to support politically in the US today?
I stopped calling myself a Christian in my early twenties (despite a deep belief in a loving God and the incarnation of Christ) as I simply did not identify with the way 'Christians' behaved and what they believed.
I believe Jesus would have been hanging out with refugees, immigrants, and the LGBTQ crowd, not the religious, political or capitalist elite. I think scriptures are pretty clear that Jesus stood fervently for the lost and the broken, the outcast and the persecuted and became enraged in the light of the abuse of power in the name of religion.
How do you think a movement can overcome the idolatry that seems rampant across the Christian church?
It reminds me of the righteous indignation that John Pavlovitz shared in his post today just a few hours ago:
https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/republican-christians-make-me-hope
Curious to get your thoughts brother and as always, much respect...