Ray Clark - Young Adult Pastor, Grace Church Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, none of us live forever doing and maybe that realization,
well that realization has a tendency to drive people back
to church when they get older, you know, because you
realize your time is limited and you best make your
peace with your banker. But young people are starting to
lead the comeback of Christianity. Ray Clark joins us young

(00:20):
adult pastor at Grace Church here in Houston. So you
talk to young people all the time. Have you seen
Surgeon attendance?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Absolutely, it's incredible what God is doing. And we mentioned
in an interview that we did earlier that attendance has doubled,
almost tripled in the last year and a half. And
when I say double triple, I'm talking about thousand plus
young adults in a room every single week, not for

(00:50):
a conference, not for just a special event, every single Tuesday,
a thousand plus to fifteen hundred young adults in a
room worshiping Jesus credible.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
And these are gen z ors that that you're talking
about here, that that that's the generation that's leading this comeback.
What what is driving them back to church? Do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
I think it's multi faceted. One being we are in
a social media driven generation where everything and anything somebody
posts can go viral, and people are having genuine relationships
and experiences with Jesus and and that experience, they will
post about it and and then their their friend sees it,

(01:32):
and then somebody across the country sees it, and then
they want to express their faith, and so they jump
into a church or a small group and then they
experience Jesus in a genuine way. So I think that
that has something to do with it, as well as
movies like our shows like The Chosen or House of David.

(01:53):
They're so they're so well done today, more so than
what maybe our family had before, our parents or our grandparents,
and it's really opening up the eyes of this generation
to who Jesus is.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
You don't, Pastor Clark. I'm noticing in the story that
we saw in Breitbart that this is being driven not
just by gen Z but gen Z men in particular,
and that you kind of have to wonder if at
least a part of this is just the desire among
young men to to get back to being a man,
to know what a man is, to to lead a

(02:28):
more traditional male life, because it's been pretty tough out
there for young.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Men you couldn't have said it better. And I say
it often that I believe this is the generation that's
going to turn back to God and that the men
are going to lead the charge. They're going to be
husbands against faithful husbands who love their wives, who love
their children and lead their children well, who don't walk

(02:54):
out on their families. They pick up the responsibility that
God has instilled in us as men. And so you're
you're absolutely correct. I think over the last few years,
we've seen what it looks like to not be a man,
and we've seen what it looks like to be talked
down to if you are a quote unquote traditional man.

(03:17):
You know, masculinity has been throwing that word has been
dragged through the mud, if I can say that, and
men are just tired of it and they're ready to
pick up the mantle of being a man again.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
And thank God for that. Ray, thank you for Johnny.
It's good to talk to you. Young adult pastor at
Grace Church here in Houston. That's Ray Clark.