Live from CCNC 2025: Is the Church Worth it? With Katie McCoy

The Strong Women Podcast

Sarah Stonestreet

Christianity, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

2.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

If the Church is a “hospital for the sick,” then we should expect it to be full of people who are sinful, broken (just like we are), and different from us. This week, Katie McCoy and I talk about what our relationship with the Church has looked like throughout our lives, and why the Church is worth committing to, even in the face of church hurt. We discuss the trends we’re seeing in church traditions and demographics. We end the episode answering listener questions about when to leave a church, mentorship, being single in the church, and more. This episode and Q&A were recorded live at CCNC 2025.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where we explore the beautifully diverse ways God invites and equips women to participate in his story.
0:16.0	We're here to encourage one another as we step out of the shallow definitions of what it means to be a woman
0:22.3	and into the flourishing life that comes when we walk out our design. I'm your host Sarah Stone Street.
0:28.8	I'm so glad you're here. Welcome back to the Strong Women Podcast. You guys, I am excited today because we just finished up our
0:40.9	Colson Center National Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, which was held just a couple weeks ago.
0:45.8	And when we were there, we did a live podcast and invited listeners to join us.
0:52.5	So I am bringing you that conversation today. The title of the
0:57.2	whole conference was, be the church. So we talked about the church all weekend. And it was fantastic.
1:06.0	There were 2,500 people who came. So it's open now. You can register for next year. It will be in Knoxville.
1:13.0	And so you do not want to miss this. It's such a fun gathering of people. But I had Katie
1:19.3	McCoy come on and I asked Katie, like, let's just talk practically. What does it look like to engage
1:26.9	with the church? We're two women from different
1:29.2	seasons of life, different vocations, different cities, and what does that look like for us
1:35.1	practically? So I hope you enjoy this conversation. Also, a heads up, my good friend Maggie,
1:40.7	who you all are familiar with now, she's been on a couple times. She comes on about
1:45.3	halfway through and takes questions from the audience and ask them to Katie and I. And so I hope
1:52.3	you enjoy that too. And I'm so glad you get to hear Maggie's sweet voice again as well. All right,
1:57.1	enjoy. I thought it would be really fun to have a conversation.
2:02.6	We're talking about the church.
2:03.6	We're talking about how the church is distinct and how the church can speak to this cultural
2:08.1	moment.
2:09.4	And I thought it would be fun to have Katie come on and the two of us kind of say, like,
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