Meet Generation Z Quotes

“Christians must pioneer new ways to bind ourselves to Scripture, to our traditions, and to each other—not for mere survival, but so that the church can be the authentic light of Christ to a world lost in darkness.”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“Because the greatest value for this generation is nothing less than individual freedom.”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“Today, if asked about their religion, people in the center say they’re nothing, because that’s the cultural thing to say.”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“The heart of secularism is a functional atheism. Rather than rejecting the idea of God, our culture simply ignores him.”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“The great crisis of this seventh age is that there has been a second fall. The first fall led to God’s expulsion of human beings from the Garden of Eden. The second fall was when we returned the favor.”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“Only authentic Christianity brings together both truth and grace.”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“So what does this mean for a church trying to reach out to an internet-based generation? Here are some internet browsing statistics that may cause you to rethink everything: average length watched of a single internet video: 2.7 minutes percent of page views that last less than 4 seconds: 17 percent of page views that last more than 10 minutes: 4 percent of words read on web pages with 111 words or less: 49 percent of words read on an average (593 words) web page: 286”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“And the influence of their peers can be utterly overwhelming. As their closest friends succumb to the trend of G.O.Y., many children feel pressured to match them for the sake of popularity and acceptance. And sadly, instead of stepping in to be the voice of reason, many parents are feeding into this cultural trend. Many”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“The distinctive form of address espoused by the prophets was “thus says the Lord.” Christopher J. H. Wright suggests that there were four principal prohibitions God expressed to Israel that were cultural in nature: idolatry, perversion, that which was destructive of persons, and callousness to the poor.”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World

“As John R. W. Stott has suggested, the art of preaching truly stands “between two worlds”: the world of the biblical text and the modern world to which we bring those words to bear.8”
― James Emery White, Meet Generation Z: Understanding and Reaching the New Post-Christian World