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In the endless quest to be relevant, seeker sensitive, and post-modern, the church today has targeted the young rather than the young and old and all between. This trend is bemoaned in an essay from which I'll quote:
The Outcasts of The Modern Church
"There are some types of people that your church will never reach because they require a completely different style of ministry than you can provide". Those words of Rick Warren are designed to get churches focusing on a specific target audience. We encounter a lot of trendy churches these days that aim their ministry at young families, teens, urban youth, hip-hoppers, and even 'goths'. But have our gray-haired saints become the new outcasts of the modern church? When was the last time that you heard of a church respond to Rick Warren's admonition by saying
This is serious and I do realize that there are notable exceptions to the above. Sadly, in many house church stories, articles, and news reports, the older ones are conspicuously absent.
Does it surprise us that many folks don't want their parent and grandparents around in the church when often they don't want them around at all? Did not the apostles encounter this same form of ingrateful perversion? Did they not conclude that those who don't provide for their own (widows) had departed from the faith and were worse than infidels? 1 Timothy 5:8.
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