Thom S. Rainer’s The Anxious Generation Goes to Church is available on Audible as a 5 hrs 37 mins unabridged audiobook, narrated by Michael Beck.
Publisher’s Summary
A new generation is going to church. But is the church ready?
Church consultant and researcher, Thom Rainer, believes God is at work in this generation, and he believes that this moment in time has created unique opportunities for churches to grow, thrive, and revive.
The culture is at inflection point. Nearly two-thirds of Gen Zers reported experiencing at least one mental health problem in the past two years. This statistic was lower for all older generations, including Millennials (51%), Gen Xers (29%) and Boomers (14%). Gen Z is the loneliest generation of Americans, lacking deep relationships and offline connection. Sixty-eight percent of Gen Z feel like nobody knows them well. That is one reason why this generation is called the anxious generation. Researchers have identified everything from social media to pandemic lockdowns as the prime culprit of why Gen Z is struggling with issues like mental illness more than other generations.
Thom Rainer views the church as God’s Plan A for helping this generation discover their true calling and thrive in a purposeful and genuine faith community. In this book, Thom explores research that reveals that the anxious generation is yearning for meaningful community and is waiting to be invited in.
The Anxious Generation Goes to Church:
-
presents research on the anxious generation that engenders hope for the future of the church
-
describes the unique challenges for the anxious generation as well as their dreams and goals
-
provides strategy and inspiration for church leaders who want to prepare believers to provide help and hope
With the unique challenges of our times, the anxious generation needs the church more than ever. Is your church ready?
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Michael Beck
- Length: 5 hrs 37 mins
- Publisher: Tyndale Momentum
- Release year: 2025
- Audible category: Religion & Spirituality / Christianity / Christian Living
Listener Ratings
The Anxious Generation Goes to Church holds an average listener rating of 4.3/5 from 6 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.3/5
- Story: 4.3/5
- 5-star ratings: 67% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
5/5 stars — “Insightful and Practical”
As a ministry leader, this was very insightful about what the next generation is experiencing. It gave practical tips to help personally, socially and collectively as a church body. Highly recommend!— Michele C., Audible listener
2/5 stars — “a way to long, redundant book report”
The Anxious Generation is a great book and people should read it; any value in this book is because it is like a book report on the original One that had a required length, so it is redundant. and I wonder if Ai wrote it as superficial and redundant as it is.Actually it is more of an amalgamation of book reports, some of which are hardly relevant to the topic, like even atheists like sam harris Richard Dawkins acknowledge that church does charitable good. the church was instrumental in the formation of hospitals and abolition.
I can summarize the book thusly.
read the anxious generation.
church attendance is down
it is important to go to church.
invite people to church, including the anxious generation(s)dont expect anything beyond superficial concepts on how church can resonate w them or in depth strategies specific to them.
— Brandon Sieg, Audible listener
For full pricing and the 30-day Audible free trial offer, see the link on this page.
