Best of Breakpoint 2022: Younger Christians Crave More
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
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Evangelicals under 40 are twice as likely as their seniors to want more substance from the pulpit.
This Point was originally published on February 3, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Stone Street from Breakpoint. |
| 0:03.2 | This week on Breakpoint, we're looking back at some of the best commentaries of 2022. |
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| 0:32.8 | Here's Breakpoint. |
| 0:34.4 | Young Christians want me not broth. |
| 0:36.2 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point. |
| 0:38.7 | As Kate Chelma with Christianity Today writes, Evangelicals under 40 are twice as likely |
| 0:43.2 | as their seniors to want more substance from the pulpit. |
| 0:46.4 | She's referring to a new survey on church satisfaction from Gray Matter Research Group. |
| 0:50.4 | Not only do three in ten Evangelicals want more in-depth teaching, but the strong majority |
| 0:54.4 | are happy with how the church handles even tougher topics by giving her politics. |
| 0:58.4 | Corlates with the 2017 Gallup poll showed that 83% of Protestants considered learning |
| 1:03.5 | about Scripture the main reason they go to church. |
| 1:06.3 | That outpaces other worthy things like kids programming, musical worship, or social opportunities. |
| 1:11.0 | Of course, making church growers happy is not the ultimate metric here of Christian faithfulness. |
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