CNLP 742 | 2025 Church Trends UPDATE: The Gen Z Revival is Real (New Data) + The Mental Health Crisis is Shifting To A Whole New Front
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Major update to Carey's 2025 church trends with stunning new data. Gen Z church attendance has quadrupled (4% to 16%), with young men leading at 21%. US data shows similar revival patterns.
Meanwhile, AI therapy/companionship has become the #1 use for ChatGPT, potentially worsening the mental health crisis.
In this episode, Carey shares updates on the 2025 disruptive church trends and what it means for your church.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.2 | 68% of male 18 to 34-year-old churchgoers say they feel close to people in their local area. |
| 0:10.1 | 68% of 18- to 34-year-old men say that they feel close to people in their community |
| 0:16.3 | compared to 27% of non-churchgoers their age. |
| 0:21.6 | So if you don't go to church, you're alone. |
| 0:23.1 | If you go to church, almost 70% are like, yeah, I feel connected. |
| 0:27.0 | In other words, a sense of closeness to other people doubles when a young adult attends |
| 0:31.9 | and gets involved in a local church. |
| 0:38.4 | Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Carrie here and I hope our time |
| 0:42.2 | together today. Helps you thrive in life and leadership. Hey, wherever you're listening or |
| 0:46.4 | watching, we're so glad to have you. We are doing an update today. It's something I've never, |
| 0:52.5 | well, actually, I did this about five years ago. |
| 0:54.4 | Every year I release church trends, and we do this in January. I've done it for almost a decade, |
| 1:00.4 | where I spend the year just kind of looking around noticing what I can find, and then I identify |
| 1:06.6 | anywhere between five and maybe eight or nine church trends that leaders should pay attention to for the year. |
| 1:12.4 | So we release stars in January as we do every year. |
| 1:15.7 | But this year, 2025 has been a year of incredible change. |
| 1:19.1 | And so what I'm doing today in the podcast on YouTube is I'm updating the church trends. |
| 1:25.4 | Because rarely have I seen things change this quickly and the good |
| 1:29.0 | news is um it's positive it's really really positive so that's what we're going to dive into |
| 1:34.2 | so if you remember my 2025 church trends report uh well all kinds of new data showing that gen z |
| 1:41.3 | church attendance has actually quadrupled in the last six years and is on this |
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