CNLP 719 | Why Teens Don't Trust the Church: Kara Powell on Why Young Women are Dropping Out of Church, And The Keys to Reaching The Next Generation
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kara Powell discusses why teens and young adults don't trust the church. Plus, Carey and Kara talk about why young women are dropping out of church, why young men are leaning in, and the keys to reaching Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
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| 0:00.0 | All people are made in God's image. |
| 0:05.1 | And I think one of the ways that the church, if I wanted to say it really strongly, |
| 0:11.0 | I would say the church is wasting human talent. |
| 0:15.4 | And you can tell I'm getting emotional about this, Carrie. |
| 0:17.7 | Me too. |
| 0:18.5 | One of the ways the church is, if we want to say it's strongly wasting human talent, is we are |
| 0:24.3 | keeping women small and women end up keeping themselves small and not being the size |
| 0:32.8 | God's made them to be. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome to the Kiri Newhofe Leadership Podcast. It's Keri here. I hope our time together |
| 0:43.3 | today helps you thrive in life and leadership today. Why do teens and young adults not trust |
| 0:48.9 | the church? Why young women are dropping out of church? An interesting point of view on that one. |
| 0:54.4 | And keys to reaching the next generation, all with Kara Powell. She returns to the podcast. |
| 0:59.3 | Hey, for those of you who are regular listeners, thank you. Your encouragement means so much to us. |
| 1:04.4 | We're here to equip you with the best conversations we know how to bring. And for those of you who are new, welcome. |
| 1:09.8 | We want to take you behind the scenes, |
| 1:11.5 | have a conversation with some of the top influencers today, and bring to them the questions |
| 1:16.9 | that you would have if you were sitting in the room with them. That's sort of the MO of this podcast. |
| 1:22.2 | And if you're new here, you know, the vast majority of people who listen still don't follow. |
| 1:27.1 | Believe it or not. |
| 1:27.9 | So follow this podcast, subscribe, as they say, and you'll never miss an episode. |
| 1:32.1 | We've got some great stuff coming up. |
| 1:33.4 | Kara Powell is a PhD and the chief of leadership formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. |
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