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Pastor Mike Drop

Episode 2005, "Faith and Millennials" w/ Jamie Richards and Dr. Bill Withers

Pastor Mike Drop

Lutheran Church of Hope

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9775 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Withers, a college professor for many years, and Jamie, Lutheran Church of Hope's young adult minister, discuss with Mike and Emily the challenges of bringing the church to the latest generation of adults, and why so few enter church doors to begin with.

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0:00.0

Welcome aboard everybody. Thank you for joining us on the Pastor Mike Drop podcast. I'm so excited about today's episode. With me as always is my co- Emily Langpaul. Hello. Hello, Emily. How are you today?

0:22.7

Good. How are you? I am great. And we have some special guests, don't we? Yes. Do you want to introduce them today?

0:28.1

Sure. Dr. Bill Withers right here. Bill gets to lead our campuses and local sites. And with him is Jamie Richards,

0:37.2

minister to our revive community for young adults.

0:40.4

Yeah, that was, that, that sums it up perfectly. So Jamie and Bill, welcome aboard. I'm really glad

0:45.2

that you're both here. I'm glad that you wore matching colors.

0:48.2

Yeah, just coordination. Seriously, though, you didn't. You didn't, right? Just as God would

0:53.4

have it? I don't know. Actually, though, you didn't. You didn't, right? Just as God would have it. I don't know.

0:57.3

Actually, Bill came with 17 shirts.

1:00.1

He had a whole rainbow of colors, and then he checked to see what Jamie was wearing.

1:05.2

Yeah, he's like, okay, I'm going with the orange flannel.

1:08.5

Good call, Bill.

1:10.0

So, Jamie, you're a millennial. Emily, you are also in the

1:14.0

millennial category. I don't mean to get too personal here. Bill and I, much to your surprise,

1:20.6

perhaps, are not millennials. What are you, Bill? Generation. Right on the fringe. Okay, between Boomer and X?

1:30.5

Yep, that'd be me too.

1:31.9

So we're, I like to think that I sometimes am, uh, by generational because I can, I can, uh, I can

1:40.3

kind of understand the boomer mentality.

1:42.1

Sure.

1:42.4

And I can definitely understand the Gen X mentality, which is technically what I am, but just barely.

1:47.6

I'm an old Xer.

1:48.8

Correct.

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