CNLP 622 | J.P. Pokluda and Gabrielle McCullough Talk 2024 Church Trends: Why the Stable Church is Disappearing, How to Engage the New Core of Your Church—Millennials and Gen Z—in Serving, Giving, And Confession, & a New Breed of Megachurch Pastor
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Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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In Part 1 of the Church Trends series, J.P. Pokluda and Gabrielle (Brie) McCullough of Harris Creek Baptist join Carey to talk about church trends for 2024.
They discuss why the stable church is disappearing, how to deeply engage the new core of your church—Millennials and Gen Z—and why the old approach doesn't work anymore, the role of serving, giving and confession in discipleship, and the new breed of today's megachurch pastor.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.1 | I think like Gen Z has, you know, I think they grew up in this model of church that was like, |
| 0:10.3 | you know, when I was in high school it was, it was like, hey you got this text that was like hey there's going to be a bouncy house |
| 0:16.5 | There's going to be free pizza. There's going to be a cool speaker and and that was kind of youth group. |
| 0:22.5 | You don't want to miss it. |
| 0:23.5 | Yeah, totally over and over and over again. |
| 0:25.5 | And I think like we're just not, we're not impressed with that. |
| 0:30.0 | We're not concerned with the flashy thing. |
| 0:33.2 | I think again we, you know, we see in culture this like, |
| 0:37.6 | this desire to really give our lives for something. |
| 0:41.1 | And I think, you know, what we're seeing again in this in this remnant that is |
| 0:45.2 | rising up is there is there is a remnant that is rising up among the next |
| 0:50.4 | generation that actually wants God. |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast and hey, happy 2024. Man, I'm so glad you joined us today we are kicking off a brand new year here on the podcast doing it in style with |
| 1:08.9 | J.P. Plouta and Gabriel McCullough we are talking church trends not only in this episode, but all month long, man, I hope you had a great holiday. |
| 1:18.0 | Wonderful Christmas time, happy New Year, and man, you came to the right place if you're trying to get an edge on what's |
| 1:24.4 | changing in the culture because we're doing something different this year. |
| 1:27.8 | We are actually going to do the entire month of January on trends. |
| 1:31.8 | We're going to kick off this episode by looking at the |
| 1:34.5 | seven church trends I've identified for 2024 and then throughout the month well |
| 1:39.3 | we're going to be talking to different leaders and dissecting them bit by bit. |
| 1:43.4 | Today's episode is brought to you by Belay and by Janeras. |
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