Gen Z is Leading Church Attendance

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In some rare areas there are young people lining up to repeat the Inquisition and pose questions about stoic piousness!

It is a thin line ...
 
These people aren't going to your United or similar churches. They're largely the red-hat-wearing, country-music-listening set. There is a Gen Z uptick for all three interests. I think it's more a conservatism wave hitting Gen Z in general, than it is a Christianity wave.

We'll see if the trends continue, or if they carry over to more liberal churches.
 
chansen said:
These people aren't going to your United or similar churches. They're largely the red-hat-wearing, country-music-listening set. There is a Gen Z uptick for all three interests. I think it's more a conservatism wave hitting Gen Z in general, than it is a Christianity wave.

We'll see if the trends continue, or if they carry over to more liberal churches.
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I did say it was a thin line didn't I?
 
Our last big cohort of teenagers aged out of church/ youth group approximately 20 years ago.
 
chansen said:
That post wasn't phonetic. Bad Luce.
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Then there was that line about whistles and horn blowing ... in Arabic that is "QAM" and is there anything that makes more racket?

Like a set of strings playing in the night ... resonation? Then that lady swinging her hips and parts ... David's dancing element? Photon ...

Humor on Lambdah ... heavens Tah Betsy ... Liza Beth? Questions????
 
chansen said:
These people aren't going to your United or similar churches. They're largely the red-hat-wearing, country-music-listening set. There is a Gen Z uptick for all three interests. I think it's more a conservatism wave hitting Gen Z in general, than it is a Christianity wave.

We'll see if the trends continue, or if they carry over to more liberal churches.
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Well that definitely can be part of it, (eg. Charlie Kirk) but some are preferring a Catholic church, for the ritual; or appreciating that churches are now more tolerant of LBGT (which kept them away before) and other areas like women ministers, etc.... Then there's the music, which in some churches, it sounds more like a rock concert or at least something more inclined to be something they would listen to.
Do you find it interesting that Gen Z, seems to be having a harder time with having meaningful relationships and finding that in the churches?
 
This is a generation raised online. I don't doubt they want more personal connections. I think there are other avenues for that, but we'll see if this trend has legs.

Look, from my perspective, I can't understand why anyone goes to church. I am simply not equipped to buy into what faith is selling, no matter how many friends I could make there. But then, I'm convinced I'm not close to neurotypical. I literally can not believe given what we know and what's available, and if I can't buy in, I can't participate with a straight face like I dont think it's a farce. Relationship doesn't enter into it for me, but I realize I'm not the average person.

Can relationship overpower doubts in others? Maybe it can. I'm fascinated by this stuff in a way. We've been waiting on a return to church for younger people for multiple generations now? Is this it? Or is this a dead cat bounce?
 
My son goes to Friday prayers at a mosque but that's a whole other world. He married into another culture (took after his old man that way) and adopted her faith. So my knowledge of Gen Z and Christianity is a bit limited
 
Mendalla said:
My son goes to Friday prayers at a mosque but that's a whole other world. He married into another culture (took after his old man that way) and adopted her faith. So my knowledge of Gen Z and Christianity is a bit limited
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From what little I know about Islam, they do seem to have extensive community ties and also through their faith at church.
 
chansen said:
This is a generation raised online. I don't doubt they want more personal connections. I think there are other avenues for that, but we'll see if this trend has legs.

Look, from my perspective, I can't understand why anyone goes to church. I am simply not equipped to buy into what faith is selling, no matter how many friends I could make there. But then, I'm convinced I'm not close to neurotypical. I literally can not believe given what we know and what's available, and if I can't buy in, I can't participate with a straight face like I dont think it's a farce. Relationship doesn't enter into it for me, but I realize I'm not the average person.

Can relationship overpower doubts in others? Maybe it can. I'm fascinated by this stuff in a way. We've been waiting on a return to church for younger people for multiple generations now? Is this it? Or is this a dead cat bounce?
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It may or may not fizzle out, but it seems that Christianity hasn't really increased in numbers because the Gen Z generation is going to church....more like they are filling the pews of those who left prior to them. Of course if they marry and have children, that may help increase the attendance also.
 
Imagine theological proliferation from methods of lost reason ... therein is a sense of deficiency and a tendency to nothing as my grandfather would say: "there something starts!"

Can one say that out ... loud? Unlikely as brutes will not hear 've IT! It is the animal way ... unamusing?
 
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