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What happens when the Church trades the slow, sacred work of forming souls for the quick, efficient business of managing consumers?

In this episode, we wrestle with a pressing question: how has the industrial spirit once meant to build economies crept into the heart of the modern church, reshaping worship, community, and even our understanding of faith itself?

Tim Churchward and I trace the deep consequences of industrialization: how churches, once centered on covenant and family, have come to mirror factories producing branded experiences, segmenting congregations by age and preference, and measuring success not by lives transformed, but by numbers counted.

The individualism that characterizes modern Protestant culture stands in stark contrast to the ancient wisdom of Eastern Orthodoxy, which sees faith not as a solitary journey, but as life lived in and through community.

The conversation confronts the painful truth: in chasing relevance and scale, many churches have fractured the family, weakened the bonds between generations, and commodified the sacred into the consumable. Worship music, ministry programs, even community itself are marketed like products and souls starve while churches grow fat on attendance metrics.

Yet, there is hope, but it is the old kind of hope: hard-won, disciplined, and rooted in reality. True discipleship demands presence. True community demands sacrifice. Men and women today are not crying out for spectacle; they are yearning for belonging, for truth, for the kind of relationships that weather storms, not just fill pews.

We must ask ourselves: will we continue to adapt to a culture of consumption, or will we return to the hard, beautiful work of covenant? Will we choose the broad road of industrial faith, or the narrow path of slow, costly, authentic community?

The future trajectory of the Church and the shape of the soul of the next generation depends on the answer.

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