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Who Gets the Time You Save? | Payton Minzenmayer on AI, Story, and Staying Present AI can build almost anything now. The question is who actually receives the time it saves. Payton Minzenmayer spent 15 years as a pastor and now serves as Director of Messaging at Faith Driven Entrepreneur and its initiative Solving the World's Greatest Problems. He is a writer, a builder, and a self-described tinkerer who codes apps for his family at night. In this conversation he gets honest about the app he built to bond with his boys, and how building it pulled him away from them. We talk about why intelligence is now a commodity and story is the real differentiator, why AI only multiplies what you already are, the "person, technology, person" relationship and what happens when the technology becomes the person, and why Christians should be the most dangerous creatives in any room. "You do not have to outperform a machine in order to matter." Payton Minzenmayer IN THIS EPISODE 00:00 Meet Payton Minzenmayer 01:53 Intelligence is a commodity. Your story is not. 03:34 When AI first showed up and felt like magic 06:48 When AI starts weakening a God-given gift 07:51 AI makes prolific what you already are 10:57 AI is like fire 12:58 The app that pulled him away from his boys 16:08 Genesis 1 and where your worth comes from 19:04 A quiet life and the cost of being extraordinary 21:20 Shepherding souls in an age of divided attention 22:25 Person, technology, person 24:01 The idolatry problem 25:40 Why AI will win on emotion, not intelligence 28:00 Lightning round: the one book everyone should read 29:19 From pastor to the marketplace 30:57 God is like a diamond 32:42 Christians as dangerous creatives 33:33 Where to find Payton KEY TAKEAWAYS 1. Intelligence can be bought. Your story cannot be replicated. 2. AI multiplies the user. A good thinker gets better. A distracted one gets more distracted. 3. Technology should be the bridge between people, never the replacement for them. 4. Your worth is rooted in being made in the image of God, not in your output. 5. Write first, then let the tool sharpen the work. SCRIPTURE REFERENCED Genesis 1:26-31 1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 Ephesians 6:12 RESOURCES MENTIONED Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie Faith Driven Entrepreneur: https://faithdrivenentrepreneur.org Solving the World's Greatest Problems: https://solving.org 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly: https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ Your Brain on ChatGPT, MIT Media Lab: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 AI and emotional well-being, OpenAI and MIT Media Lab: https://openai.com/index/affective-use-study Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, U.S. Surgeon General: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/su... CONNECT WITH PAYTON Christian Story Lab (free weekly newsletter): https://christianstorylab.com Very Good Story (helping founders tell their business story): [LINK] CONNECT WITH FAITH & AI Faith & AI Conference, The Brauntex Performing Arts Theater, New Braunfels, TX: https://faithandaiconference.com If this conversation helped you, subscribe and share it with a pastor, parent, or builder who needs it. #FaithAndAI #ChristianCreatives #AIandFaith #Storytelling #FaithDrivenEntrepreneur #ChristianLeadership #ArtificialIntelligence