The LoCK Plugin
Discernment Under Christ
The LoCK plugin brings the Lens of Christ’s Kingdom framework into ChatGPT, helping Christians examine questions, claims, and AI answers under the authority of Jesus Christ and His Word. It supports the work of seeing clearly and responding faithfully, while keeping the responsibility for discernment with you.
Use the LoCK Plugin
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Follow the link below to the LoCK plugin listing in ChatGPT and complete the installation prompts.
Get the LoCK Plugin [Coming soon]
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Open a ChatGPT conversation, type @, and select LoCK from your installed plugins.
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Enter a question, paste a claim, or share an AI answer you want to examine. You can begin with:
“Help me examine this claim under Christ and His Word: …”
“Help me discern the assumptions in this AI answer: …”
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Ask follow-up questions, read biblical passages in context, and verify important factual claims. LoCK can make mistakes. Responsibility for what you believe, share, and do remains with you.
What the LoCK Plugin helps you do
Examine a claim
Bring a statement from a conversation, headline, or cultural message. LoCK helps you examine what it claims, uncover its assumptions, and assess it under Christ and His Word.
Discern an AI answer
Bring an AI response you want to examine. LoCK helps you distinguish facts from interpretations, recognize worldview assumptions, and consider what to affirm, correct, or question.
Explore a question
Bring a question about faith, life, or a difficult decision. LoCK helps you consider relevant biblical teaching, weigh evidence and competing ideas, and work toward a faithful response.
Learn More
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Consider how AI can serve useful work under Christ’s authority while keeping responsibility for discernment with the Christian.
How the LoCK Plugin Differs from General-Purpose AI
Explore what changes when an AI tool is explicitly instructed to approach questions under Christ and His Word.
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Is Artificial Intelligence Neutral?
Recognize the assumptions shaping AI answers—and why Christian discernment must examine our own assumptions too.
How Should Christians Discern AI Answers?
Look beyond fact-checking to examine what an AI answer claims, assumes, and asks you to believe.
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Learn how instructions and supporting references guide the plugin’s reasoning without making its answers authoritative.
Common Criticisms of the LoCK Plugin
Examine questions about bias, circular reasoning, biblical interpretation, and echo chambers, and why LoCK must remain open to correction.
Privacy and Contact
The LoCK plugin does not automatically send your ChatGPT conversations to The Cross Echoes Ministries. Your conversations are handled by OpenAI under its privacy policy and your account settings.
If you contact TCEM, your message goes to email and your email address is stored in Squarespace. Only the ministry team reads submissions, using them to respond and improve LoCK. Squarespace and our email provider process this information to deliver their services. We do not sell your information, add you to mailing lists, or share it for others’ use.
Support information is deleted after the relevant plugin update or six months, whichever comes first. You may request earlier deletion through our Contact page. Please remove sensitive information from anything you submit.