PART III: Generation Zoe

“The first generation in 1,700 years that may actually refuse to settle.”

Jesus said: “Those with ears to hear—let them hear.”

Generation Z not only hears—they immediately detect when something is off-key. They grew up in:

Which means their “discernment radar” is tuned extremely high.

They can smell fake before the first note of the worship set finishes, by watching the band enjoying itself instead of Jesus, the “pastor” boss going through his notes for his speech when “worship” is happening, watching the swayers or hand raisers or pogo dancers checking out the chicks or their watches when presumably they were singing directly to the King of all the Kings. In medieval days, someone foolish to diss any ole king like that would quickly hear, “Off with his or her head.”

But because God the King and Author of all Creation is invisible to the naked eye, some don’t really “believe” in Him enough to not get distracted or not “use” Him because “this is my favorite song.”

Can’t “see” God so it’s okay to diss Him? Guess what. 95% of the entire universe is invisible, inaudible, and untouchable. And that’s just the science. That doesn’t include the God part or God particle. Our eyes only see the very narrow 380-770 nanometers. Our ears only hear the very narrow 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. Or they used to anyway. Meanwhile neutrinos, star-is-born particles, are passing through your body by the trillions per second. We want to say, “seeing is believing” and name our piece of geography the “Show Me” state. We think we’re so smart. “Show me the science!” But 95% of the human perception of the universe is empty. God invented the neutrinos, and the cosmic storms that sometimes show up as Aurora Borealis for a bit. But if “seeing God” is your hangup to bowing before Him, then you shouldn’t believe in electricity either.

Somehow the Gen Z crew knows all of this. They sense what the other bandwidths of Life are, even if they can’t easily prove it. They don’t have to. They know what they want.

They can see through institutional motives before the sermon text is performed.

They can sense plastic fruit from across the room.

They don’t hate Jesus.

They hate pretending.

If the System is a wax museum, Gen Z is the generation that refuses to bow before wax statues but instead gets out the hot blow-dryer.

This section is about them—and why they are the most spiritually promising generation in centuries and need to help the rest of us to wake up while there is time.