CNLP 616 | Grant and Cheyanne Skeldon on What The Next Gen Thinks is Wrong With the Church, It's Not a Next-Generation Crisis But a Discipleship Crisis, Close Friends v. Close Up Friends, and Predictions About the Future Church
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Grant and Cheyanne Skeldon, who work extensively with next-gen leaders, join Carey on the podcast for the first time.
Grant and Cheyanne talk about what the next generation thinks is wrong with the church and why there's no next-gen crisis but a discipleship crisis. They discuss the difference and importance of close friends and close-up friends and Carey asks their predictions about the future church.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | It's Carrie here and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 0:14.7 | Well I am passionate about the next generation. I'm thrilled to have Grant and Cheyenne |
| 0:19.8 | Skelden on the podcast today. Tell you more about that in a second. Today's episode is |
| 0:24.3 | brought to you by 10 by 10. 10 by 10 is here to give you the tools you need to |
| 0:29.2 | connect the young people in your circle to a church. You can visit T-X1.org that's 10 by 10.org today to |
| 0:37.9 | access free resources to help reorient your youth ministry. And today's episode is brought to you by Sub Splash. |
| 0:44.4 | Join over 16,000 churches partnering with Sub Splash |
| 0:48.0 | to make disciples in the hybrid reality of church today |
| 0:51.6 | at Sub Splash.com slash Carrie at Subsplash.com slash carry. |
| 0:55.0 | Well I really appreciate Grant and Cheyenne |
| 0:59.0 | Skelden. I've gotten to know them over the last couple of years and we are going to talk about what they think is wrong |
| 1:06.1 | with the church, sort of the next gen, they are like hyper connected in the younger millennial and Gen Z space. |
| 1:14.0 | So what's wrong with the church, why there's no next generation crisis but a discipleship crisis? |
| 1:20.0 | That's coming up a lot on the podcast. Watch for a theme. We're tackling it next year as well. |
| 1:24.0 | Close up friends and close friends and predictions about the future church. |
| 1:29.0 | Very excited for this conversation. |
| 1:31.0 | So Grant is the next-gen director at Think. He is the director of |
| 1:36.6 | culture at Waychurch and the author of the Passion Generation, a book published a few years ago. |
| 1:42.0 | He finds, unites and accelerates diverse |
| 1:44.4 | dynamic young leaders to reach the most lost generation our nation has ever |
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