CNLP 700 | 2025 Church Trends: Gen Z Is In Revival and Retreat At the Same Time, Evangelism is on Life Support, and More
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Carey Nieuwhof shares the top 5 church trends leaders need to pay attention to in 2025.
Carey discusses how Gen Z is in both revival and retreat, evangelism is on life support, church closures are outpacing church plants 3-1, the rise of the non-derivative church, and the state of pastoral mental health.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.7 | That also corresponds to other findings that Gen Z church attendance is actually down since 2020. |
| 0:09.3 | Well, 22% of Gen Z attended church weekly in 2020, only 16% report attending weekly three years later. |
| 0:18.7 | That's a pretty meaningful drop. |
| 0:23.6 | In fact, think about this. The number of Gen Z who never go to church grew from 28% to 37% in just three years. So what does this mean? I mean, |
| 0:32.0 | the data seems to be suggesting they're not going to church as often as they get older. |
| 0:36.6 | Spiritual openness drops. Yet, |
| 0:38.3 | yet you have these massive revivals happening, starting at Asbury, and then moving across, |
| 0:44.4 | you know, to churches and college stadiums and so on and so forth. Well, that leads us to the |
| 0:50.4 | number one church trend for 2025. Gen Z is in revival and retreat at the same time. |
| 1:01.3 | Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership Podcast. I hope today's episode helps you thrive in life |
| 1:06.3 | and leadership. Well, today is one of my favorites. We're doing church trends, and today we're kicking off the 2025 church trends series. |
| 1:14.6 | As you head into a brand new year, I guess the question I'm helping you answer is, |
| 1:18.6 | what should you be paying attention to as a leader? |
| 1:21.6 | I think one of the challenges church leaders have is that day-to-day ministry requires so much time, right? You know this. |
| 1:29.3 | Your heads down, you're dealing with problems, you're getting ready for Sunday, you've always got something new you're working on. |
| 1:35.3 | And as a result, it's hard for you in the trenches to focus and see the bigger picture. |
| 1:39.3 | It's hard to even look up and look around you. So I do that for you. And you know this, right? Like if |
| 1:45.9 | you miss the bigger picture, your day-to-day efforts can often miss the mark. You're really |
| 1:49.9 | well-intentioned, but maybe you should have been making a course correction here or there along the |
| 1:54.5 | way. Well, that is what this annual Church Trends podcast is designed to help you and your team with. So in this episode, I'm going to |
| 2:03.8 | outline the five church trends that I've identified for 2025, and then we're going to break them down |
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