CNLP 703 | Noah Herrin on High Growth Church Planting, Leading with Community over Content, and How a Church With An Average Age of 25 Got Started
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Church planter Noah Herrin continues the 2025 church trends series as he and Carey discuss high-growth church planting.
Noah shares how he created a ministry model that leads with community over content and how a 14-month-old church that attracts 700 people on the weekend has built a congregation with an average age of 25 years old.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | What problem could we solve here in the city for people? |
| 0:07.0 | Like what's the problem that is glaring to us? |
| 0:10.0 | And we lived in the city for about six months before we realized what the problem was, but the problem was loneliness. |
| 0:16.0 | That was the problem that we saw everywhere, no matter the age. |
| 0:20.0 | And so everything that we do at our church, |
| 0:22.9 | it sounds crazy, but we're actually thinking community first. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership podcast. It's Carrie here, and I hope our time |
| 0:36.1 | together today helps you thrive in life |
| 0:38.4 | and leadership. Well, you know, if you're planting a church or thinking of launching a campus, |
| 0:43.2 | or you just want to reach the next generation, this is going to be a great episode. Noah Herron |
| 0:48.8 | is on the podcast. He is the founding and lead pastor of Way Church in Nashville, Tennessee, and they have grown |
| 0:55.7 | from zero to about six or eight hundred in 14 months, average age of the church, 25, and they're |
| 1:02.9 | leading with community, not content. There's an awful lot of learnings here. Hey, today's |
| 1:08.9 | episode is part of a five-part series on the five |
| 1:12.2 | disruptive church trends that will rule 2025. To go along with the series, I've got a free |
| 1:17.8 | leader guide. I would love for you to get your hands on it, not just for you, but for your team. |
| 1:22.5 | The leader guide includes all five trends in detail and study and application questions and a lot more. |
| 1:29.1 | It's free. You can download yours at 2025churchtrends.com. Again, that's 2025churchtrends.com. |
| 1:37.6 | So Noah Herod is the lead pastor of Waychurch in Nashville, Tennessee. He's also a communicator and author |
| 1:43.7 | who travels around the world |
| 1:45.0 | and teaches the Bible in churches at conferences and in universities. He's also the author of |
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