I want to follow up a theme I talked about at the end of yesterday's post. I am seeing more and more old people being shunted and shuffled off into the "corner" in churches. By "old" I mean over 60 at least and mostly over 65. I have a suggestion for pastors, especially younger, emergent-fan ones. Why not take time to teach a series to the old people's Sunday School class on postmodernism and postmoderns and HOW the elderly can reach them. Many if not most of the elderly are retired and have some time on their hands. Of course we need to re-orient them to the realities of how postmoderns (approx. ages 18-30; or in some camps, 18-35) think.
On another note, I wonder how emergent types who have churches made up of people only under 35 would react if an old person came in to visit. Would they be ready for these people? Would they welcome them? Would they use them in mentoring positions? Or would they ignore them and hope they go away.
Time will tell.......
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The sad thing is, we really don't respect our elders of the faith. The church is only where it is today because of generations of faithful believers who got old. We stand on their sholders. It's the height of either arrogance or stupidity to look around and think we somehow got here on our own.
I love your idea of a class to educate seniors on the differences in beliefs. It might also be worthwhile to have the seniors teach a class on God's faithfulness throughout all the changes of our lives. :-)
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