‘It seems that this influx of young people is reviving the dying Church’

Kate Orson is absolutely sure that the ‘Gen Z revival’ is key to the future of the Church, but urges caution with the Church’s next steps

A few years ago it seemed as if the Church was in a decline that it would never recover from. Secularisation was in full swing, and many congregations consisted mostly of the older generations. However it appears that this wasn’t the end of the story, but just the movement of the tide going out. As Justin Brierley so eloquently describes in his book The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God (Tyndale), there is now a new wave of believers. The Quiet Revival survey commissioned by the Bible Society and YouGov found that church attendance has risen by 50 per cent over the last six years.