CNLP 748 | Revival Series Pt. 4 | Gen Z Men Converting—UK Church Revival Lessons for America: Nicky Gumbel, Al Gordon and Stephen Foster on Reversing Generations of Church Decline
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Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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In Part 4 of the Revival series, Nicky Gumbel, Al Gordon, and Stephen Foster explain how and why Gen Z men in the UK are becoming Christians in record numbers.
They discuss how they're seeing generations of church decline reversed and what America can learn from it.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.9 | I think atheism's gone pretty much amongst young people. |
| 0:06.9 | The evidence is it's gone down from 25% amongst generation Y |
| 0:12.3 | to, I think, something like 20% amongst generation X and 13% generation Z or Z. So it's halved. |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Kerry here. I hope our time together |
| 0:32.1 | today helps you thrive in life and leadership. Hope you have been enjoying this revival series. |
| 0:36.9 | I loved putting it together. |
| 0:38.3 | The feedback's been great so far. And today, we're going to take a look in the future. |
| 0:43.0 | We're going to go to the UK. I've been tracking what's happening in the UK for years, |
| 0:47.2 | and I assembled a little panel, Nikki Gumbull, Stephen Foster, Al Gordon. Some of those names you may |
| 0:53.5 | know, some may be new to you, but they are on the |
| 0:56.2 | ground and seeing a revival of sorts and awakening in the UK, in particular among Gen Z men. |
| 1:04.7 | And what I've been sort of tracing out is the UK is kind of from the future. They move from |
| 1:09.1 | post-Christian to pre-Christian culture. |
| 1:16.3 | And so I think you're going to get a glimpse into maybe what is going to happen or could happen in America in the next few years and in other parts of the world. So this is going to be fascinating. |
| 1:22.5 | I love if you want to know what the conditions for revival are, listen not only to the words, but the tone, the humility, the respect these leaders have for each other, the way they view other church leaders. |
| 1:35.8 | We've got a lot of notes to take. I think you're really going to enjoy it. Hey, speaking of notes, we are having some robust discussions inside the Art of Leadership Academy. |
| 1:45.2 | We opened up a whole new free tier. |
| 1:46.6 | We've got over 6,000 leaders in it now and would love to have you join us. |
| 1:51.2 | This is troll-free discussion where you're with other leaders who are discussing podcast episodes like this. |
| 1:56.7 | You also get the show notes there now. |
| 1:58.4 | Go to kerrynewhoff.com slash show notes or click the link in the |
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