Engaging Gen Z in the Church
Our family has five members. According to experts, “A generation is a group of people who share a time and space in history that lends them a collective persona” (William Strauss and Neil Howe). In this sense, our family spans four generations — X, Y, Z, and A. Through the influences of society, politics, and technology, I have witnessed the complexity and generational gaps within my own family.
The Central Highlands, Southern, and Northern provinces of Vietnam, which have the largest number of believers in the country, are gradually losing their Gen Z members. I had the opportunity to preach at a church with about 300 congregants, around 100 of whom were teenagers and young adults. However, only about 15-20 young people regularly attended a youth service. The trend of Gen Z leaving the church is widespread — some move to big cities for education, others seek job opportunities elsewhere, and some simply no longer want to attend. After talking with many Gen Z individuals, I found countless reasons, but the common theme is that the church has become uninteresting to most of them. Read More
