{"id":139877,"date":"2025-09-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139877"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:39:23","slug":"ta-david-roseberry-the-surge-in-church-attendance-what-it-means-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139877","title":{"rendered":"(TA) David Roseberry&#8211;The Surge in Church Attendance: What It Means for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We may be standing at the edge of a season of renewal in America. But it won\u2019t just happen. Pastors, vestries, members\u2014we all have to pick up the tools God has already given us and use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we do, then this isn\u2019t just a spike in attendance. People will stay. They\u2019ll grow. They\u2019ll become part of the household of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One X user said it best:&nbsp;<em>\u201cGod always brings good out of evil. The light shines in the darkness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That light is shining now. The question is whether we\u2019ll lift it high for all to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidroseberry.substack.com\/p\/the-surge-in-church-attendance-what\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Young people are going back to church:<br><br>&quot;After years of stagnant church attendance, a surprising shift is underway. Millennials and Generation Z are emerging as the new \u201cbackbone of church attendance,\u201d driving a resurgence in spiritual engagement, according to recent findings\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Nancy Pearcey (@NancyRPearcey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NancyRPearcey\/status\/1968326652234223925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may be standing at the edge of a season of renewal in America. But it won\u2019t just happen. Pastors, vestries, members\u2014we all have to pick up the tools God has already given us and use them. If we do,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139877\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,209,440,437,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139881,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139877\/revisions\/139881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}