The Living Water Blog

Barna's newest data shows weekly Bible reading among Gen Z jumped from 30% to 49% in a single year. That's remarkable news — and it raises the exact question at the center of everything we do: does more Scripture intake actually produce a formed life?

Barna's 2025 tracking data shows Gen Z now attends church more often than any other generation — nearly double 2020 levels. Attendance is rising. The question every leader should be asking is whether formation is rising with it.

Barna's pastoral well-being research found that only 35% of U.S. pastors qualify as healthy across every measure of well-being. Leaders can't pour from an empty well — this is why formation and personal coaching exist alongside every other program we run.

New Barna research shows 39% of Christians aren't engaged in discipleship in any direction — and most who aren't say it's because no one asked. Here's why that gap is exactly what Groundwork and our mentorship program exist to close.

I didn't set out to start a nonprofit. I set out to survive. This is a short version of how a season that could have destroyed me became the reason Living Water Network exists.

Equipping 100,000 Kingdom leaders isn't a slogan. It's the outcome of a specific logic model — and we think it's worth stating plainly enough that it can be tested.

Spiritual formation is not a program. It is the lifelong process of being shaped into the image of Christ — and it is the foundation every Kingdom leader must build on.