Something that I notice is the tendency of some people to either act younger than their age or to yearn for their younger days. I wonder if they are afraid of aging. I wonder if they feel the future is not bright and so they revert back to a time when everything was before them and not behind them. I am not an expert, but I do observe the world around me, and I see this happening to my generation. I call it the Peter Pan syndrome. They seem to be older people who won't grow up.
This ties in to our youth oriented society where everything targets youth and youth is viewed as the best time of life. The only thing advertising sells me are prescription medicine. We view youth with such high esteem that there doesn't seem to be any value left to bestow on those who have gone before us.
I am processing growing older pretty well. I am not pining for my younger years. I do not try hard not to be as old as I am. I am content just as I am.
I agree that discipleship is youth oriented and it is best to send out young couples. Sending out middle aged couples just means that in a year or two you will bring them back with medical issues.
He that endures to the end will be saved. You do not have to behave like a new convert teenager to be saved. Just because our Fellowship ignores us does not mean that God has forsaken us as we get older.
I have never walked out on a sermon. I am still the grownup in the church. But more and more I find that sermons seem to target folks much younger than me.
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