Help! The wrong type of person is turning up at church!

Posted on October 30, 2025 
Filed under Apologetics, Evangelism, Opinion

“The wrong type of people are turning up at our churches. The wrong type of non-Christian people.

Not convinced? Let me explain.

The quiet revival – in which young men in particular are turning up at churches – is presenting something of a problem for evangelical churches of a certain stripe. And the recent death of Charlie Kirk has cast this problem into sharper relief.

What’s the problem? I hear you ask. Well it’s this:

Many of our more middle class, evangelical churches – especially in urban areas –  have been prepping themselves for a certain type of non-Christian to come through their doors. Yet in the wake of Kirk’s murder they are less prepped for another type of non-Christian altogether – the type that actually is coming through their doors!

It’s not as simple as ‘the wrong type’ of inquirer coming to our churches. There’s no such thing.

But our evangelical churches, especially in our big cities, are more unsure about what to do with a Jordan Peterson reading/Charlie Kirk socials-watching young bloke turning up, than they are about a gender-fluid university student with all the progressive boxes ticked, turning up. …

Why have we been caught out by this surprising turn of events? Because the culture has been caught out by this surprising turn of events. And we have followed the culture’s lead. …”

– Many churches are seeing this ‘quiet revival’. Stephen McAlpine writes with encouragement to engage.