Forty percent of American adults didn’t read a single book in 2021. Among young men, the numbers are even more dire—leisure reading has plummeted 40% over the past two decades, with many spending hours daily on TikTok but unable to finish a paragraph without reaching for their phones. This isn’t just a cultural curiosity. It’s […]
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Here’s the hard math of church multiplication: one Western missionary can plant one church every three years. One indigenous leader, properly trained, can plant ten churches in a decade—and raise up others who do the same. In Acts 29 Africa’s regional training days across Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Burundi, Mozambique, and Zambia, we’re seeing what
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We’ve optimized the wrong metric. American churches have spent the last decade chasing engagement—likes, shares, impressions—while actual discipleship has flatlined. The Barna Group reports that only 25% of self-identified Christians regularly read their Bible, and church attendance has dropped below 50% for the first time in American history. Yet our social media feeds are polished,
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Chan Kilgore has seen a lot in nearly 25 years of ministry. But he’s never seen anything like what’s happening at New River Fellowship in Fort Lauderdale. “I haven’t seen anything like it in the amount of time we’ve experienced,” Kilgore says. “The kind of conversions we’re seeing are undeniably a work of God.” The
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Fifty-seven people came to faith in Christ in under two years. That’s not a conference statistic. That’s New River Fellowship in Fort Lauderdale—a church plant where Chan Kilgore, a veteran of nearly 25 years in ministry, says he’s seen conversions unlike anything in his lifetime. ‘The kind of conversions we’re seeing are undeniably a work
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Forty-three percent of Gen Z identifies with no religion at all. Yet sixty percent of all Americans still call themselves Christian. Something doesn’t add up. According to Barna’s latest research, we’ve reached a startling threshold: while 60% of U.S. adults claim Christian identity, only 24% qualify as “practicing Christians”—those who attend worship monthly and say
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The most dangerous phrase in church planting isn’t ‘we don’t have enough money’ or ‘we can’t find a building.’ It’s this: ‘Pastor knows best.’ Over the past three decades, a quiet revolution has reshaped the healthiest growing churches in America—and it has nothing to do with worship styles, sermon series, or social media strategy. According
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We live in an age of authenticity obsession. Every coffee meetup must be ‘vulnerable.’ Every small group demands ‘deep sharing.’ We’ve convinced ourselves that unless someone knows our childhood trauma, our financial struggles, and our secret fears, the relationship barely counts. But what if this obsession with intimacy is actually starving our churches? The Biblical
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550 students stood outside a chapel at midnight, waiting in the Florida February chill. Classes had been cancelled. Faculty joined undergraduates on their knees. For fifteen minutes, 2,300 students called out their sins into the silence—pornography, fear, anger, adultery, abortion—while a livestream went viral and the nation watched. Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida has become
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For years, the panic was palpable. Gen Z—those born between 1997 and 2012—was leaving the church in unprecedented numbers. They were the ‘nones,’ the disaffiliated, the spiritually indifferent. While Millennials asked questions about faith, Gen Z seemed to shrug and scroll past. But something unexpected is happening on university campuses across America. The Silence Is
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