Ryan Burge

50-50 young men and young women in the pews.

In that way, I think it's actually a very good thing.

If you walked into a church and it was 90% Gen Z men and 10% Gen Z women, that's a real problem.

I mean, 50-50 is a lot.

Well, for the men.

Well, yeah.

I mean, yeah.

the future of the church too, though, because then you become unattractive to young women because they walk in and go, whoa, dude, there's no place for me here.

Churches need to, they need to be receptive to all kinds of people.

And so that 50-50 future, I think is actually probably a good thing if it holds.

That's the most important thing.

If these Gen Z men maintain this habit throughout the rest of their life, which, I mean, that's obviously an open question right now.

In America, the data is really clear on this.

Educated people are actually more likely to go to church than less educated people are.

Educated people are more likely to identify with any religious tradition compared to uneducated people.

Actually, the ideal combination of education and income for church attendance

is people with a bachelor's degree making between $60,000 and $100,000 per year.

So sort of like white-collar, upper-middle-class-ish people.

Those evangelical megachurches you drive by in the suburbs, you know, called the Journey and the Bridge, guess who's the modal member?

Elevate.