Prologue

You HAVE to know, if you’re paying attention to the Life of Jesus at all…

• Jesus didn’t descend from Eternity-Life to show up and punch a time clock on Sunday morning
• Jesus didn’t come with a construction permit to build steeple-houses
• Jesus did NOT start or envision a calendar-based ritual, ceremony, mass, service—or attendance-based club of any kind
• And least of all, Jesus did not authorize or establish a pyramid org chart with holy men on top like all the other world religions

It was never HIS Plan that spectators succumb to the emotional hypnosis of a “Simon says” ceremony that someone cleverly constructed behind the curtain, or singing on cue to ProPresenter, “follow the bouncing ball.”

That was obviously not who Jesus was 2,000 years ago, and it is not who Jesus is now.

Of course, it got Him lied about, attacked, beaten, and worse, for not “going along to get along,” no matter how loving and compassionate and wise He was and is.

But I am convinced that Gen Z will not tolerate the wax museum steeple-house (or auditorium or living room) attendance-based and mixture of light and dark “service” version of “church.”

They see the artificiality instantly—just like watching an AI-generated animation that almost looks real.

Gen Z will not be Gen Zzzzz, sleeping through ceremonies or curated talking points without authenticity, while the world burns and their souls starve. They will, instead, be Gen Zoe. Generation “on earth as it is in Heaven” Life.

We can join them, or we can be left behind—and then try to find ways to criticize and call names.

Let’s join them.