staub log
there is a resource that i became aware of a number of years ago & have continued to subscribe to it's weekly e-newsletter. it's put out by dick staub called & culture watch.
the link above takes you to a recent posting he made about current, younger leadership & their relationship to the old-guard. some good thoughts about inter-connecting the generations & a sense of learning from one another.
dick is a seattle-based writer who's time is spent identifying the quest of american spiritual quest & how it is often un-linked from the church.
so a couple of ?'s for this:
how do we celebrate the new & fresh without trampling the by-gone era?
i'm fully behind the idea that the best stuff is still yet to come. but how do we make sure that we're not running ruf-shod over those that have come before us?
the link above takes you to a recent posting he made about current, younger leadership & their relationship to the old-guard. some good thoughts about inter-connecting the generations & a sense of learning from one another.
dick is a seattle-based writer who's time is spent identifying the quest of american spiritual quest & how it is often un-linked from the church.
so a couple of ?'s for this:
how do we celebrate the new & fresh without trampling the by-gone era?
i'm fully behind the idea that the best stuff is still yet to come. but how do we make sure that we're not running ruf-shod over those that have come before us?
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I have found that the best way to keep from running over the "seniors" (the older folks) is to join them to my youth ministry. I invite them to youth events and trips, and I try to encourage the seniors to make relationships with the youth.
On the flip side, I try to get the youth to understand what happened before them. Often, the youth think everything revovles around them, was created for them, and was designed with them in mind. Getting them to realize that not everything is about them is one of the great challenges of youth ministry. However, as they mature (both emotionally and spiritually) they tend to get it, especially as the seniors involve themselves with the youth.
It works out as a circle - the seniors involve themselves with the youth ---- the youth begin to understand that the seniors have wisdom and begin to respect their "out-of-touch" ways ---- the seniors respond to the respect by becoming less "out-of-touch" and want to get more involved .....
The hard part is actually getting it started, but being a child of the 60's myself, I often find that I can see both sides which makes it easier.
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