Physical Digital Church, Interview with Skeptic Pastor Jeremy Steele

I am delighted to welcome Jeremy Steele to the podcast today. I love his content on TikTok so much. He reached out to creators with podcasts. I jumped at the chance to interview him, and he graciously agreed!

Church attendance statistics are notoriously difficult to decipher, but people latch onto the latest reports as signs of a turnaround or that their favorite segment is gaining new interest. Recently, Churchtrac showed an increase in Millennial attendance led by men. A slight uptick in fundamentalist evangelical churches engagement appears to be responsible for this. Is it a continuation of the young restless reformed movement?

In my public-facing ministry and my work within the Presbyterian Church USA, I'm regularly told that my church is dying because it is "woke." Young men say they've left my church for more fundamentalist churches. It is always about LGBTQ affirmation and women in ministry, and not really about Jesus. For every one of them, however, I hear from at least ten others who say they will never go to church again because the church is hateful and hypocritical. So I ask, why then aren't fundie churches growing by leaps and bounds, rather than just attracting people who left mainline churches? Where will people turned off by the church go? 

 See Jeremy's links at https://jeremy-steele.com/ , including his podcasts, TikTok and other resources. 
You can join Jeremy's community at https://www.patreon.com/skepticpastor 

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