3 Things About GEN Z Every Church Leader NEEDS TO KNOW
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- Today, we're exploring three things about Gen Z that every church leader needs to know. Because Gen Z is the first generation to grow up fully immersed in a digital world they are truly unique. So let's talk about their distinct characteristics and how to minister effectively to this special group.
Social Media Crash Course for Smaller Churches: prochur.ch/2Y8aXUN
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Table of Contents:
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0:00 - Intro
1:01 - Defining Gen Z
2:23 - Gen Z Distinctive #1
4:07 - Gen Z Distinctive #2
6:19 - Gen Z Distinctive #3
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Show Notes:
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- Start your 30-day free trial (no credit card required) of Nucleus here: www.nucleus.church/
- Social Media Crash Course for Smaller Churches: prochur.ch/2Y8aXUN
- Gen Z: Vol. 1: prochur.ch/3C6yS8V
- Gen Z: Vol. 2: prochur.ch/3C6yS8V
- Faith For Exiles by David Kinnaman: prochur.ch/3A8cuvr
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Connect With Brady:
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Gen Z is so much more than just straight-legged jeans! 😂 Here's what you need to know as a church leader about this special group of young people.
Extremely helpful. Thank you, Brady.
Your own spiritual formation is showing. God is doing a work in all of us, and yours is out loud. Thanks for the ministry.
Thanks for your perspective on deconstruction. Always appreciate that you aren't willing to shy away from these conversations!
Digital Hygiene. I love that term. Thank you for the great content.
Spot on Brady. I have been feeling very led to investigate these specific things recently. It’s shocking to me that Barna just researched it all, and you just put a condensed video version of it literally after a discussion with our leadership last night. These are pivotal issues/understandings. Thank you!
Generation Xer here, parent of Gen Z kids..Great video and very informative. 👍🏽Thank you. By the way, home phones 📞are not a thing of the past..lol. I still have a home phone...and an answering machine.
Always great, brother! With the church plant that is growing, this is timely. Thanks.
This is such solid content! It blew my mind how good it was... Sheeeeeeesh!!
Such a brilliant video!!! Great help and so ideal!
Great info
Amazing to See Ps Vlad Savchuk here. I guess I’m in the right space.
I just watched this video. I'm 48 years old and have been a Christian for 31 years. I found the things you shared quite helpful. I'm very aware and sensitive to the need of bridging the gap with the younger generations. I also have seen a greater awareness of mental health challenges, which is very refreshing. The deconstruction principle is also talked about. And the need for understanding the institutional failings of the church must be addressed. Thank you for bringing up these topics. I will be checking out your other videos. May God continue to bless this important work.
Thank you so much Brady for keeping us educated, aware and sensitive to the next generation! This was very helpful and encouraging to watch.
Digital Babylon is a picture-perfect description of our current 24/7 digital age.
The deconstruction comments I think are really important. The gauge for "fake" with Gen Z is off the charts. So when they see our own institutions not living up to the proper standard or trying to hide the "skeletons" in the closet, it all works against their faith. The youth pastor at my church has always said that discipleship with younger people is a partnership between the church and the parents. There really has to be presence beyond Sunday to guide our young people (and people in general) through these unprecedented times.
This is where the proper use of digital and analog tools can help us do that.
Great video!
Spot on! Thanks for the book references in there. A few others I have found helpful for others in Youth Ministry are "From the Pen to the Palace" by Benjamin Kerns and "Meet Generation Z" by James Emery White.
Thanks for everything you and your team put together, Brady!
Wow, Thanks Brady for sharing this imput. Just yesterday I was impressed that my audience needs to be Gen Z. With my own mental health problems as a millenial Im encouraged by Gen Z step up attitude. Plus. now I know why I don't wan tto be on my divices as muhc as my friends. Because we know what it was like without it. Amazing communciation shift we are experencing.
Nice work! Solid tips here amigo. Thanks for sharing.
Nice one Brady. Really appreciate videos about engaging with Gen Z (we are a youth work charity after all). It’s great that culture is shifting where conversation around ‘mental health’ is more open. I do feel that this generation are sometimes labelled as ‘weak’ which I feel is unfair. Talking openly about your mental health and ask king for help isn’t weakness. Vulnerability is such a brave thing to do and should be celebrated.
thanks Brady, you seem to always have bonafide applicable content. blessings
So helpful, Brady! God bless your ministry
This is such a good video - every youth leader should be able to articulate (and probably make their own video) on this topic
Fantastic information and thank you! This is great, passing on to our youth leaders!
8:15 PREACH! Wow! As an evangelist/minister I naturally do this thank you!
Very enlightening. Thank you for the links also. Babylon is a great description of society today. I am banging the drum of relationship with Jesus with our son.
This was very helpful your channel is giving out so much needed value for todays church so glad I came across your channel
Grateful to have you 🙏
Totally on point!
Excellent episodes. Keep up discussions on these other aspects of our faith
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Quality content. Thanks for putting this together.
You got it 🙏
As an Orthodox Christian, I would like to point out that he is speaking about small "o" orthodoxy.
Thanks, Brady.
Brady, as a weekly Nucleus user and Nucleus 2 beta tester, I didn’t even know about the social media crash course! I’m taking it right now. I’d love to see more long format ‘courses’ like that in the future.
Thanks for everything you’re doing 🙏🙏🙏
We’re planning on it! This one was really well received.
@@prochurchtools great to hear! Love everything you guys are doing. You’re helping our church in McHenry, IL, USA more than I could fit in a UA-cam comment.
Brady, thank you for all of this. I greatly appreciate how you framed and approached #3 in recognizing that our institutions in the West do have failings, and it's important to address and work through those.
What type of orthodoxy did your mother do with your family growing up that helped you remain grounded?
More than I can realistically get into in a UA-cam comment. But essentially, whenever I'd get wound up over something non-essential to the Gospel she'd push me back to what matters, Jesus.
Hey Brady. New listener here. Thanks for your info and insights. One thing bothering me is how we Christians keep labeling and categorizing and compartmentalizing and analyzing each other. This is so similar to psychology with all its personality theories and mental definitions. Why do we keep doing this? Treating everyone with "specially made" gloves to handle each group according to so many custom-made requirements. Yes, there different ages - children, teens, young adults, adults, older adults, etc. Of course, there are different degrees of understanding and learning abilities. Whatever happened to plain, simple discipleship and Bible teaching? Why keep splitting ppl up into these specialized "gen" and "mill" groups? Bible and Christianity are really not this complicated. Please keep it simple. We the church need revival and turning back to simple faith in Jesus. Yes! I know I'll get jumped on for all I just said. So, have at it folks. Shut in with God in a secret place. There in the Spirit, behold His face. Thanks for your patience and time.
Ad. are gen z more affected by mental health issues. Yes & no. I agree with what you said, there's clearly more awareness and articulation of these problem. But, at the same time, there's also much more family instability than in previous generations: so many divorces, or broken families, or parents who haven't even ever married each other to begin with.
As a millennial, when I was in school, it was very uncommon for kids to have divorce situation or a single parent, these were exceptional situations. Today, I would estimate it's more than a half of home situations.
Thank you for sharing
My pleasure
@@prochurchtools 🙏🏾
What are some of the issues, or skeletons within the Christian closet that we should be addressing with Gen Z?
BTW, Thank you for making this informative video.
I was raised in the church my entire life as a pastor's kids. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Many of the issues and skeletons that Brady addresses here are still much the same today. Having been involved in planting and revitalization for 25 years I thought we would be further by now.
The biggest issue I see in the church today is the older generation holding on to church buildings and programing that the younger generation with limited time and resources will not be able to maintain. Not to mention the fact that regardless of cost the old model of long form IRL meeting is becoming less and less compatible with their peers lifestyles.
Despite the reality of the law of diminishing returns overextending senior leadership and members driven by an escalation of commitment are continuing to operate on legacy SMO.
This is the most dangerous when churches question Gen Z's spiritually when they can not psychically get to church.
"Orthodological" Awesome word! I can't find it in the dictionary, but I get the gist :)
I believe the word is orthodoxal, but I like orthodological better. Seems more specific to way of thinking.
props to Mom. good work Mom.
As an ex-Christian and atheist - things talked at eight minute was exactly what made me leave a religion. Still feel a lot of hate for religion in general - however listening to you gives me hope that one day such people will be in charge of these institutions. That will be a huge win for humanity. Subscribed.
If you understand that the problem is with the institutions, then why would you write off God? He's not part of the institution.
Genuine question 🙏 not trying to pry.
@@Dyslexiasymtum123 I do not write off God. However, my view on God is different than how it is depicted by all major religions. That is why I consider myself as an atheist. God in my view is universal consciousness which experiences itself and contains everything. All religions point to this, but the human ego gets involved an creates a human like image of God. I consider that a false and dangerous teaching.
How are you doing the edits to transition to the blur and content?
1 Corinthians 1:17 (NIV)
17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel-not with wisdom and eloquence, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.....Preach Christ (truth) simple, who don't want to hear does not want to hear, with love though...
Truth bombs. I have been in church from the day I was born. My Dad has been a pastor for 4 decades. He was just as critical internally of the church as he was of culture being having been the first fruits of the Jesus people movement.
Isn't it interesting also that when we are are critical of the body of Christ that we are usually being critical of another body or denomination? I watched the host of wretched rip on Bethel about all the ways they have stolen the youth away from other denominations. Did he talk about the toxic nature of those denominations, or their inability to let those young people take the helm to reach their peers where they are at? nope.
Tech question: Are you reading off of a teleprompter or are you working from notes?
Teleprompter. You can see the studio setup here: ua-cam.com/video/Y-nKVvxX5Fk/v-deo.html
Wait wait Brady. I was born in 1982 & I’m a millennial
I'm pretty sure "orthodological" isn't a word, but good stuff lol
I don't think Gen Z are disproportionately more impacted by traumatic experiences but as you said they are more aware of their mental health. It's up to the church to learn how to connect in content with context. By the way, I consider myself a millennial 😂, 1982! Pew Research and the NPD Group have the dates like:
Baby Boomers: 1946 - 1964
Generation X (TV Generation): 1965 - 1980
Millennials: 1981 - 1996
Generation Z: 1997 - 2012
Orthodological 💪🏻🧠🧐
I think your point #1 and point #2 are actually related. Because GenZ has never had any great cause or struggle to devote themselves toward, their addiction to screens (and social media in particular) has caused all of this “anxiety” that we keep hearing so much about. The cutting, the panic attacks. Instead of fighting Nazis or ISIS, these young men grew up with nothing better to do than playing Grand Theft Auto or Madden. And the girls are constantly comparing themselves to filtered faces and bikini models twerking on Instagram and feeling that they fall short. Thus the rise in mental health issues… (By the way when “mental health” can mean anything and everything, it ceases to be useful as a term…but I digress.) I think you sell the wisdom of previous generations a little bit short when you say that GenZ is blessed with all of this “emotional intelligence” that we are lacking. (I have a GenZ son and daughter so I know a little bit of what I’m talking about, having seen this up close and personal in my own home.) Secondly, this “deconstruction” nonsense has a whole lot more to do with the amplification of negative and confused voices on the Internet than with any failings on the part of the body of Christ.
Based on your comments across a number of my videos, Scott, it seems we disagree on a great many things. That’s fine with me. 🤝
That's a dodge, not a response. As far as I know, I've commented on just 2 videos. I know you're accustomed to flattery and praise from sycophants...but you don't learn anything that way.
@@scottbachmann1962 No, I can just tell by your tone and choice of words that you’re not going to waver from your positions - I’ve had a great many conversations online in that vein. I’ve learned to just acknowledge the disagreement and move on. Saves us both time and energy.
@@prochurchtools "Based on your tone..." You would've made a great wife for someone. 😆 Alright, man. I'm out.
@@scottbachmann1962 ayyye. Didn’t take long to show those true colors. Making my point for me. 🤝
As an apostate, your first two points are helpful for anyone working with young people. My church literally split over Trump 5 years ago, so your third point doesn't stand up well to reality.
Heard Brady likes his comments
That's true
Question #1. I don't think Gen Z is disproportionately affected by traumatic experiences. Every generation has traumatic experiences. If anything, I think Gen Z has not been taught the same way as previous generations in dealing with traumatic experiences. They may need more help with their mental health because they have not been prepared as well as previous generations to deal with how rough life really is, and some of them have been medicated (ADHD) so as not to be a nuisance to their parents and the education system.
About this ceiling of relating and supporting to them. Shouldn't our students be taught to go to the Scriptures as the final authority for addressing their mental health issues. There are all kinds of traumatic experiences recorded there.
Two Scriptures that allowed me to hold on to my faith in my teen years and throughout adulthood are:
Let God be true and every man a liar.
Jesus did not entrust himself to them. He did not need man's testimony about a man because He knew what was in the heart of man.
Back in the 1980s when I began pastoring I used to preach that the reason our teens were leaving the Church was because they saw its hypocrisy, beginning at home with their parents, and extending beyond that to the Church itself. I remember watching Dave Roever on TBN in 1988 after Jimmy Swaggart was exposed. He was angry about the number of young people that were lost to the kingdom as a result of that debacle. Paul Crouch asked Dave if he could explain to the youth that Christians weren't perfect. Paul was visibly upset when Dave responded, "No, I can't. Young people are lost to the kingdom because of what Swaggart did."
And who’s going to teach students about that? People in relationship with them. That’s where it starts.
Just to be the oddball here.... I don't believe Jesus focused on the systemic issues within the church in OT or NT as much as he did issues of the heart of the believer. Not sure it helps Gen Z or other generations to focus on systemic issues rather than their personal relationship with Christ, personal one on one responsibility each believer has. Walk the walk is still true today. It's what Jesus and Paul preached about. Jesus can withstand the "deconstruction movement" without a doubt. But as older generations will we withstand not giving Gen Z the truth? Just my thoughts....
No need to set it up as an either/or. Doesn't have to be that way. Can and should be a both/and.
But He did focus on this in scripture. One example is the story of Jesus flipping tables because the temple (aka church) money changers were systematically leveraging expressions of faith (sacrifice) for their own personal gain and charging people to the point of what Jesus considered robbery for an “acceptable offering” to the Lord. The institutions of the church must recognize wrong-doings or we can never have credibility with a younger generation on the spiritual ideas of repentance and forgiveness.
@@Josh.GrayMusic Yes that's an example I thought of too. Jesus did say, "it is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer". We as Christians make things too complicated. Jesus didn't say, "change your church" or "change your attitudes" when he was overturning the tables. He said, "my house shall be called the house of prayer" because when we pray and submit our hearts to Him on a daily consistent basis systemic issues are less likely to happen. I know someone's voice is saying "no way" what about the damage the church has done and all the hurt caused. Again we make it more complicated than it is and Jesus does not make life or things complicated. Man just doesn't want to submit and wrecks havoc on people especially if there in leadership at churches. I'm not saying at all the church doesn't need to repent for it's wrong actions and decisions. I'm saying moving forward for Gen Z and the next generations focus on the heart issues of a believer rather more than the systemic because it's the heart issues that cause the systemic ones. I know I'll throw a curveball here when I say this too but it's true. Jesus did not say abolish slavery and it's a terrible thing. He didn't! Jesus said if you're a slave be the best slave you can be. And if you're own slaves treat your slaves with honor and kindness. Now I'm aware that slavery was back then but today is most countries slavery is a crime but the principle is the same today. Heart issue!
you left gen x and z behind to stand out side abortin clinci you just need money