Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

As a church I pastor, we've been seeing something really cool happen in our college ministry

over the last few years.

Every Tuesday night, over a thousand

college students gather in our auditorium to worship Jesus. That's a significant increase

compared to even a few years ago. And this isn't just a fluke. Churches all over the country

are seeing the same thing. Gen Z is showing up in the church. Now, that's not what we were told would happen.

Everyone assumed Gen Z would be the first fully post-Christian generation.

Raised on TikTok and trained to be skeptics, they were too digital, we were told, too distracted, too disinterested.

It seems that the generation is split.

Many in Gen Z are irreligious and consider themselves among the nuns, N-O-N-E-S, those who don't identify with any particular religion.

But others are showing up to churches in droves, hands raised in worship, desperate for something real.

The other day, my daughter-in-law who works with the church sent me a video of

students at the University of Missouri filing into the center of campus for an outdoor worship night.

Tons of young people packed into a plaza, not for a concert, not for a party, but to sing to Jesus.

And as I watched that video, I felt something click inside of me, like I was starting to realize

why Gen Z is interested in Jesus. It's a simple reason, but it's one I forget a lot in my own life.

And that's this. Apart from Jesus, there is nothing. I've been a Christian for a long time now,

and sometimes I forget what it was like not to be a Christian. I forget what it was like

to be unsure of who I was, or what I was doing, or whether any of it really mattered. I forget

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