Part 4
How to Better Evangelize and Disciple Millennials and Gen Z
Church culture must change to reach the next generation
Recruiting Millennials and Gen Z into church ministry can be a delicate process. It requires relationship-building for its own sake and a confluence of interest, opportunity, and need.
All too often, unfortunately, Millennials and Gen Z don’t stay involved in leadership very long after they commit to it. Why?
Sometimes, their life circumstances may change. They have children, change jobs, or move. Other times, your church leadership may drive them away.
The “religious dones” interviewed in Josh Packard’s Church Refugees range in age from 18 to 80, but they all decided, after immense effort and frustration, that they could better serve God outside the structures of the church.
I suspect that Millennials and Gen Z are especially likely, and quick, to decide their time would be better spent elsewhere. It’s how we were raised, after all.
If you don’t want your church leadership to be the reason young people leave church leadership, then you better listen to Millennials and Gen Z and then empower them.
