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About 10 months ago, I committed my life to Christ.

In the past I was kind of searching for a purpose, whereas now my purpose is given by God.

In this younger generation, the kind of Gen Z, Gen Alpha coming through, there's definitely a sense around a search for meaning, a search for purpose, a search for inner peace.

One of my friends goes to CrossFit,

and he said all these big muscled guys are all studying the Bible. I was just a bit lost,

and I remember sitting down on the sofa one day, closing my eyes, and all of a sudden

I had a bright white light imprinted in my eyes in the shape of Jesus. What is going on right now with young

people and God? They call it the quiet revival because it's all happening beneath the surface.

But if the polling's right, then more and more of Gen Z is turning to religion. Church

attendance by young men in particular has more than quadrupled. Is this a need for something spiritual in a doom-scrolling world

or a rejection of how we're doing things today?

We'll explore what's going on and why.

Welcome to a special edition of The Newsagents.

The Newsagents Tonight I want to talk primarily to young people and I want you to turn with me to the sixth chapter of Matthew and Jesus is speaking

and he says this, no man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one

and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve

God and materialism. That voice, it's the American evangelist, TV preacher Billy Graham.

Now, I find a psychological and spiritual and moral vacuum in the United States and in Europe and

America and many other parts of the world.

Millions of young people have no purpose for living and no motivating challenge.

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