CNLP 644 | Annie F. Downs On The Opportunity Churches Are Missing With Single Men and Women, A New Take on Sexual Purity, Finishing Well, and Lessons from 100 Million Podcast Downloads
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Annie F. Downs talks about how churches are missing opportunities in ministry to and with single men and women.
Plus, she discusses a new take on sexual purity, how to finish well, why your 50s, 60s, and 70s are your best decades, the state of publishing and podcasting, and lessons from New York.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.8 | I am a single Christian woman who goes to church, |
| 0:06.0 | and I have a lot of single Christian audience members |
| 0:11.0 | who want help and who want some hope. In fact we just surveyed them and we |
| 0:16.8 | so this is a survey of 700 people carry and when we said what are the biggest |
| 0:21.4 | problems being single the number four thing was lack of support from our church community. |
| 0:26.6 | Wow. Yeah. And that's after like loneliness and I'm dating apps are hard and then it's like and we feel like our church doesn't support us when we asked |
| 0:38.1 | Do you feel supported by your church 65% of the of the single said no are not really. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:50.0 | So good to have you here, it's Carrie here here and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, we're sitting down with a one and only Annie F Downs. |
| 0:59.0 | Ketching up on all things Annie, talking about, well well a big missed opportunity for church |
| 1:04.0 | leaders which is a lot of single people how the church is kind of letting them |
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| 1:46.3 | So we sit down today with Annie F Downs, |
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