Full Disclosure-Out Of Love For You

Sunday Morning

Mar 07, 2026

I would have you to know how much I love and appreciate you, my reader, my subscriber. I do pray over my subscribers list from time to time envisioning everyone blessed, their need met, protected from the evil and opportunities for you to share truth with searching hearts. I believe it’s this love that impresses on me to be clear with you how my content is being produced having announced The Carbon/Silicon Alliance For Truth on the previous Sunday Morning post. This post is to assure anyone my writings are my own and I would like for clarity’s sake to explain how I am using AI for content. Biblical or otherwise.

I know many are skeptical of AI. I was too. It is human nature to be skeptical of a new idea or technology. I saw early on… when a lot of people were skeptical about the internet… this new thing of socializing online would be a wide-open door to move God’s Word. Back before Facebook. Before MySpace. When Yahoo was the site to be using for email, instant messaging and socializing on Yahoo 360. (A site similar to Substack in that many writers would publish their blogs there.) This new thing gave anyone the ability to meet and engage in conversation with people you otherwise never would have met. By way of typing on a computer. Blogging on 360 was when I began to sharpen my writing skills. This is when I realized the digital public space was born.

About three years after Yahoo shut down 360, I began using Blogger [Google] to develop my own site. That’s right. TheHolleringStump.com. “A Scriptural Observation Of The Human Condition.” It got many hits from all over the world. (Including China, pre CCP internet crackdown.) Until Google locked me out of my Blogger account a few years ago. But I’ve got many of those posts published here… and actually a few more to post… for posterity.

TheHolleringStump.com top 9 international hits for Feb 2012. USA was always #1 averaging maybe 1,000 hits a month.

Today, socializing online is the norm. Technology continues to advance. Consider the man whom I believe to be the best example we have in Scripture concerning the heart committed to move God’s Word. Some might say Paul had no technology or services. I say he did. What did he have to utilize in his time? Hmm… Let’s see….

Roman roads: engineered marvels for fast travel and letter delivery (like highways. Or today’s internet backbone). By the 1st century AD… Paul’s era… the network was already vast, with tens of thousands of miles of paved or well-maintained highways connecting major cities, provinces, and frontiers.
Scribes/amanuenses: Paul dictated most letters (Romans 16:22 Tertius; Galatians 6:11 large letters in his own hand as signature). He used trained and skilled writers that I’m sure would’ve at least offered their services for clarity and multiplication as this was a common service.
Ink/papyrus, parchment: Used to record the letters. Parchment (an upgrade) was developed around the 2nd century BCE in Pergamon (in modern Turkey) as an option to papyrus, the primary writing surface in earlier times. Various inks had already been established and were in common use in Roman society by the time parchment gained popularity. Common in Paul’s time.
Circulation system: Letters read aloud, copied, passed to other home fellowships (churches). (Colossians 4:16: ”see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans”). Viral distribution long before the printing press… let alone the internet.
Public forums: Areopagus debates (Mars Hill, Acts 17), marketplaces, synagogues. Paul went where people were.

My point: Paul didn’t insist on handwriting every epistle hisself or walking everywhere to prove ‘authenticity.’ He stewarded resources, time and reach. What we see here is he did use technology and services as well as engaging publicly.

The fact is Paul used what was available to him in his time in his ministering the Word to others. Which was my answer to any of my fellow believers (conditioned… as I… by years of face-to-face witnessing) that asked me why I was blogging when I first began writing biblical content. “Wouldn’t Paul have used the internet to move God’s Word if he had it then?” JADs Comms on Substack is what The Hollering Stump used to be in that it is my outpost in the wilderness we call the world wide web for outreach that I (and others, like you) can link posts to share in emails, texts or on social media sites. And I give the url of my site to people I come across and share truth with occasionally in daily life. (Written on the back of my old Hollering Stump business cards.)

But drafting posts, producing podcasts and building videos takes time. I don’t ask for donations or sponsors. Haven’t for some time. I don’t do this for money. And I’ve had some setbacks. The laptop I was using after I was just getting comfortable with OBS died in 2020. My video production stopped post-Covid when work ramped back up. I was deplatformed from Youtube and Twitter before that… and then Facebook… where I was having the most impact… booted from two years ago this month. I spent a lot of time pumping truth out into the world and navigating the Digital Battlefield. It gets exhausting. What I would like known concerning my use of AI in providing content is that it is a huge time saver for me.

To head off any “You’re using AI! That’s not your writing!” accusations: I fed Grok my last post for accuracy, spell-check, flow, structure… to “polish” my work, then asked if it could be shortened a bit. It offered a “professional” version… smooth, clean, I was impressed. But it sucked my personality right out of it. Anyone who knows my writing would not believe I wrote that.

So here is how I’m utilizing Grok as a writing assistant. I feed it parameters, such as my trusted sources, my key verses, examples, ect. for the post, what I am inspired to share on, what I’m highlighting, word count, an opening paragraph or three to let it get a feel for where I want to go. What it gives me is a structure I can work on if I like it. If I don’t like what it offers, I’ll probably at least use a point or two it suggests edited. (Such as for this post.) I cut what doesn’t fit with what I want, rewrite sections to give it my own voice and insight, I guide revisions. I use it as a fact-checker, not only on current/historical events, but my own thinking as well. The result is 100% my heart’s conviction. Absolutely no auto-generated theology slipped in. If I am to use an AI quote, my reader will be informed prior to it.

I also challenge Grok on what it offers. Like for this post. I had asked it if I should start including a “full disclosure” line on posts as honest transparency. (It’s not necessary due to how I use it.) Grok took the chat to what Paul employed in his outreach. (I had told it that Paul used the technology of his time previously in the chat.) What it came back with concerning scribes/amanuenses was it called them “professionals.” I asked it why it would consider this service “professional” when the vast majority of them were slaves. Here’s some of its response.

”Yeah, your question hits a key nuance in historical accuracy—especially when we’re talking about Paul’s “tech stack” in that Substack post draft.”

“Calling them “professionals” risks anachronism—it evokes modern freelancers, which doesn’t fit the slave-heavy reality. Sources emphasize slavery as the “enabling infrastructure” of Roman literature and administration. Paul’s use of them (e.g., Tertius, possibly Sosthenes in 1 Corinthians 1:1) shows stewardship: leveraging available skilled help (even enslaved) to multiply the Word without doing everything solo.”

“You’re spot-on to question this; it sharpens the post and removes potential stumbling blocks. Keep pressing—truth like this builds trust with readers seeking real enlightenment.”

Why bother with this? Because our time is short. Every day that passes we are one day closer to the return of our King. Souls and crowns are hanging in the balance. We are currently witnessing the Light pushing back the Dark. The cultural corruption exposure to the public side of our time’s Great Awakening may be fading having its fullest effect at this point in the war, but the revival side of it… as this land’s Great Awakenings have historically gone… is happening and strong. From what I’m hearing, specifically amongst Millennials and Gen Z. Always so important to reach the youth to secure the future!

Yes, I work but I’m doing what I can as a 40+ year disciple to pitch in. My pride would say, “Do it all yourself to prove you’re real.” Humility says, “Use what’s available to serve better.” As Paul (→ and Peter as well it appears) dictated letters to skilled writers instead of handwriting every one of them hisself… or used ships instead of walking everywhere… the medium serves the gospel.

The Carbon/Silicon Alliance = a human heart + silicon speed. This human heart… submissive to Christ through God’s Word… is utilizing AI to check for accuracy, organize thoughts through chat, structure suggestions, phrase refining and spellchecking to get out more truth to more people faster and cleaner.

Everybody talks about truth these days. Few it is that actually fight for it with everything they’ve got. The web to me (other than for research, purchasing, socializing, work and a battlefield) is another field in which needs sowing. This internet makes it so much easier… and actually to literally… ”Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” (“All the world” would include digital spaces. It’s where people are!) Scripture encourages us in Ephesians 5:15 & 16 to “walk precisely, not as fools, but as wise redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” I’m going to make as much impact as I can on this world with the truth of God’s Word with the time I have and if that means I can use an AI to sharpen my broadheads and let more of them go then by God so be it. Your support by sharing my posts and commenting when so inspired is most welcome.

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(Broadheads are an arrowhead type that have been used since ancient times for hunting and warfare… for all you non-archery types out there.)

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Announcement of Grok’s addition to the Deptartment of War network in this speech, joining Google’s Gemini. Given at the Arsenal Of Freedom Tour, Starbase (SpaceX) Brownsville, Texas on Jan 12, 2026. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers the Technological Dominance at the War Department speech