Soul Prompts are an ancient, yet somehow also ultra-modern way for Christians to deepen their Faith, invite insights from the Holy Spirit, build Fellowship with believers, and expand one's connections in the Kingdom.
That sounds like a lot, and it is-- but luckily you can find out quickly for yourself how Soul Prompts do all that.
A Soul Prompt begins as a favorite phrase from Scripture, or a burning question about the Christian Life, or a personal understanding incited by the Holy Spirit, or an interesting intuition from a friend, family member, favorite writer, or Pastor. It should be something that either has deep meaning for you, or fills you with joy, or describes a mystery about God that you want to explore.
Soul Prompts take four forms:
1. The initial phrase, which usually is something you enjoy meditating upon
2. The social media form of the phrase, which is usually a question that is interesting and provocative enough that when you post it on Facebook or another network it will invite lots of comments
3. The AI prompt form of the original thought, which is optimized to produce the most wisdom-evoking answers from AI programs like ChatGPT. (Yes, modern AI's access and sort through millions of documents about Christianity and God's Word.)
4. The phrase used as a central topic in a Mind Mapping program like generateideas.ai, Miro, or MindMeister, so that it leads to a shared vision of fellowship through online group Mind Mapping.
You might summarize the power of Soul Prompts thusly: 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.
You can see why we say Soul Prompts are both ancient and ultra-modern!
Of course you don't NEED to utilize all four modes of Soul Prompts to benefit from them, but when you do you evince a massive and almost endless source of Faith-enhancing wisdom.
Helpful guidelines:
When you adapt a Soul Prompt for social media, by turning it into a thought-provoking question that is hard for readers to scroll by, it's helpful to form what we call an Engagement Party of 4 or more friends, family members, or fellow believers who will post likes, shares, questions, and evocative comments about the Soul Prompt that invite further discussion. This is because the Social Media algorithms like posts which have a lot of engagement, and when they see that interest is constant they will show the post to more members who are not in your network.
It's also useful to post your Soul Prompt on Christian group sites that have a lot of members; on Facebook these include "Christian Topics" (248,000 members), "Christianity Daily" (197,000 members), "God Created Heaven and the Earth" (265,000 members), "Jesus Christ is Lord (245,000 members), and "Pray for Humanity" (4 million members).
When using the post as an AI Prompt, it's useful to try phrasing it in a lot of different ways. It's also helpful to use different AI's-- the ones we use a lot that deliver valuable results are ChatGPT, Gemini.google.com, Copilot (Microsoft), Claude.ai, LLaMA, and Perplexity.ai.
When utilizing the Soul Prompt as a central topic for a group mind mapping program like generateideas.ai (Ayoa) it's a big help to use the illustration feature, so that the program will produce images as well as text to throw light on the topic. Images (this is our theory) elicit insights from the right brain, text from the left brain, and these reinforce each other.