Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology to Mara. My guest today is Dr. Kara Powell,

who is the executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute and the chief of leadership formation at Fuller Seminary.

She was named by Christianity today as one of 50 women to watch.

Kara speaks regularly at national parenting and leadership conferences and is the author or co-author

of a number of books, including her recently released book, Future Focused Church.

This conversation is all about the intersection between our unique cultural moment and

Gen Z in terms of Christian discipleship.

Kara is always just a lively conversational partner and incredibly wise when it comes to

all things related to Gen Z and Christianity.

So please welcome back to the show, the one or only, Dr. Kara Powell.

Kara. Kara, welcome back to Theologist Rob. We were talking offline for a while, and I forgot to hit record.

I was like, we already get into the good stuff.

So you are an expert on Gen Z and the intersection between Gen Z and our current cultural moment and stuff.

And I've been, this is what I just, I'll just say what I said to you offline.

Yeah.

You know, culture has shifted radically.

I mean, has there ever been such a quick radical shift in culture from like pre-internet,

post-internet?

It's just like we are living in like completely different worlds.

And yet it seems like in some church context, not all, maybe most, maybe not even most,

the model of youth ministry in some places hasn't changed a bit since 1983.

Well, this worked in 83, you know, and we're doing the same thing.

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