Seth Barnes

Gen Z Is Ready to Be Sent. Are We Ready to Let Them Go?

Four weeks ago, I opened this series with Jessi Green and the summer of 2020, when she saw hundreds of people baptized off Huntington Beach. I told you about her vision. But I left out the part of it that I think matters most. During a 21-day fast, J...

Discipling

Gen Z Is Ready to Be Sent. Are We Ready to Let Them Go? Gen Z Is Ready to Be Sent. Are We Ready to Let Them Go?

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Gen Z Is Coming to Church to Pray. Who's Teaching Them to Listen? Gen Z Is Coming to Church to Pray. Who's Teaching Them to Listen?

In the winter of 2002, my coworker Deryck Livingston and I stood in front of a discipleship class at Bethel College in Indiana and tried something that made us both nervous. Deryck asked the room, "Who here has never really heard the Lord in a c...

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Discipling

Gen Z Is Showing Up at Church. Who's Going to Stay? Gen Z Is Showing Up at Church. Who's Going to Stay?

Years ago, I sat in a dark hut in rural Mexico while rain tapped steadily on the roof. A Bible school student named Priscilla was telling us her story in a low voice. When she was six years old, she accidentally killed one of her father's chick...

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Gen Z Thinks Revival Is Coming. Pay Attention to Why. Gen Z Thinks Revival Is Coming. Pay Attention to Why.

In the summer of 2020 as Covid was swallowing up our freedom to worship, I sat down and wrote about a beach in California. Every Friday that July, people gathered at lifeguard station 20 on Huntington Beach. By the fourth week, about 2,500 showed up...

sethbarnes

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It was the spring of 1994. We had sensed God telling us to move our family of five small children out of south Florida. We didn’t have any idea where he wanted us to move, but we knew he wanted us to step out in faith. So we put our house on the ma...

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