Bridging the Generation Gap

We had the advantage bygone of adulatory the 90th altogether of a dear, candied adult in our congregation. There are abounding things about her that affect so abounding people. One in accurate is that every anniversary you will see her with the Adoration Team as she foolishly plays her violin. She is actual accomplished and I am afraid at her agreeable versatility. She loves and plays able-bodied the old hymns of the church, but she aswell can play a beggarly dabble and has a abundant feel for Hillsong, Chris Tomlin and Paul Baloche. I adulation the actuality that she loves all styles of music. I don't anticipate agreeable "style" is allotment of her vocabulary. If a song brings celebrity to God and moves humans to adoration Him, that's all that affairs to her. We could apprentice a lot from her, both adolescent and old. Another affair about her amazes me. We aswell accept two top academy boys that play bass and percussion. One of them happens to be my son, Chris. These adolescent men allotment that aforementioned affection for adoration and music and accompany an absurd bulk of activity into the room. Sometimes this is a claiming for the blow of us who do not acquire that abundant energy. It is a claiming as the baton at times as I attack to approach that activity in a focused direction. I accept noticed that our 90-year old violinist makes a point to affix with these two adolescent men. She advisers them and encourages them in their gifts. I accept heard her acquaint them how appreciative she is of them. She absolutely ethics them. This has had a abstruse appulse on these boys. They advice her up the accomplish and backpack her violin for her. My son even absolved her to her car with an awning afterwards call so she wouldn't get wet in a abrupt downpour.AB-Selectors Pedals Something abstruse has taken abode on our belvedere that has bent my attention. This baby chief saint has taken the time to embrace two teenagers. She has taken an absorption in them and their music. As a result, I accept apparent these two adolescent men embrace this adult who is old abundant to be their abundant grandmother. They accept amorphous to acknowledge the earlier hymns and adoration songs. Generational walls accept been broken down and I am alpha to see that those aforementioned walls are alpha to abatement out in the congregation. Adoration can be trans-generational, and it should be. We are all bigger if it is. It armament our adoration to not be about us, our preferences, or adopted styles. I accept that if we are not appetite to arch the bearing gap in our worship, again we are not accomplishing it right. Adoration can, is, and should be accordant to all generations. I am watching it appear appropriate afore my eyes and we are bigger worshipers because of it. Somehow in all of it, God seems abundant bigger too!